Utah is No. 14 in the preseason AP Top 25, the program's all-time highest ranking in August in a major poll.
The Utes rank behind the Pac-12 North’s Oregon (No. 11) and Washington (No. 13) and ahead of Washington State (No. 23) and Stanford (No. 25) in the poll, released Monday. The Utes will host WSU on Sept. 28 and visit Washington on Nov. 2; they’ll miss Oregon and Stanford this season in the Pac-12′s scheduling rotation.
This is only the third time Utah has made the preseason AP Top 25 and the first time in the school’s Pac-12 era.