UCLA lost badly to Oregon State in early October, creating mild concern about how Utah's football team would perform against OSU the following week.
That didn’t turn out to be a problem for the Utes, who won 52-7 in Corvallis, Ore. Yet the way UCLA has played since losing to the Beavers will make No. 8 Utah (8-1, 5-1 Pac-12) take the Bruins seriously Saturday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium.
“They have some momentum … they’re a confident team — at least, it appears that way,” Ute coach Kyle Whittingham said during his weekly news conference Monday.