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Utah’s postseason success is rooted in the program. ‘We don’t lose bowl games,' Samson Nacua says.

Players coming into Utah’s football program soon learn what is demanded of them. Among the Utes' standards, sophomore receiver Samson Nacua said, are these expectations: “We don’t lose to those guys down south, and we don’t lose bowl games.”

Not lately, anyway. The Utes have won eight straight games vs. BYU and are 5-0 in bowls in the school’s Pac-12 era, while coach Kyle Whittingham’s 11-1 postseason record gives him the best winning percentage in college football history (minimum 10 games).

In Monday’s Holiday Bowl, the Utes are facing a Northwestern program that claims only four bowl wins.