SALT LAKE CITY – There is still an avenue to the Pac-12 championship game for teams that open the conference season with consecutive losses, and there’s even a precedent for it. Not much of one, albeit, but it does exist.
Ask Washington State’s next opponent about that.
Last season, Utah stumbled through the first two weeks of league play, losing games to Washington and Washington State before winning six of its final seven to secure a rematch with the Huskies in Santa Clara, which the Pac-12 South’s representative would also lose, 10-7.
But just because the Utes did it, and did it recently, doesn’t mean it isn’t a prickly road.