Utah's first Pac 12 game is a visit to USC, which dominated the first decade of this millennium. It is sure to be a new experience for most of these Utes. However, the Pac 12 just made an announcement that will help Utah feel right at home: the game will be broadcast on Versus. Of course, they will be making about 12 times more money for this one than any of the previous games they have had on Versus. Still though, I found it rather entertaining.
Utah caught enough breaks the past 12 months, I guess it was bound to catch up with them eventually. They got invited to join a BCS school. Robert Anae gifted them a game against rival BYU. They got to play a top 10 team in a non-BCS bowl game. The Pac 12 decided to give them more money earlier than they were supposed to. Boylen did bad enough to get fired so the Ute basketball program can finally rebuild. And they don't have to play Oregon or Stanford (likely to be the only ranked teams in the Pac12). In fact, for their first season in the Pac 12, they may not play a single ranked team. BYU is probably their best hope to play a ranked team, but they have to win games on the road against an SEC school AND Texas to get there. Lucky...except that their first Pac 12 game, their first trip to the legendary Coliseum in a conference game, is on one of the networks they despised as Mountain West members.
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