OK, so we know Utah will not be going to the Rose Bowl, having lost to Washington in the Pac-12 championship game here on Friday night. There will be no parade, no march down Colorado Boulevard, no history made. Where does that leave the Utes, heading into the second- and third- and fourth- and fifth-tier possibilities of Pac-12-affiliated bowl games? Which bowl game do the Utes deserve to be invited to?
Well. As Bill Munny told Little Bill Daggett in the film Unforgiven, “Deserve’s got nothing to do with it.”
It might have just a bit to do with it, but not as much as it should.