Everybody expected … what else? … the inevitable on Saturday night when Utah faced Arizona in a game that ended up looking like college football’s version of a Freightliner blowing past a Fiat 500 on a lonely stretch of dark-dusty desert highway. With all 18 Ute wheels thundering by, the Wildcats’ cartoon car shook and shuddered, ultimately skidding and spinning in the wind sheer.
Through that one-sided whirl, two things were manifested: 1) The average team in the Pac-12 — Arizona — is not much to look at, and 2) The Utes are.
On account of the college game’s antiquated reliance on perception, such things are important.