I declare the Utes national champions!
Care to disagree? Who, pray tell, beat them? When your record reads, "13-0" that means no one did. Not one team. Not Michigan in the Big House. Not No. 12 TCU. Not No. 14 Holy War Rival BYU.
And neither did the perennial powerhouse Alabama, the famous Crimson Tide, in the Sugar Bowl. This is the team that was ranked #1 almost all season—the team that nearly beat Florida for a spot in the final BCS game.
Who could have beaten Utah? Florida? Oklahoma? USC? Who knows? No one knows! No one thought—except hopeful Utahns (and later hopeful Utahns and apparently quite smart Vermonters)—that Utah could beat 'Bama. But they did. Big time. The game wasn't even close. Twenty-one unanswered points in the first quarter alone. They never lost the lead and won in dominating fashion with a final score of 31-17.
So, the BCS may not agree with me. The coaches may or may not agree, but we'll see. This year just screams for a playoff instead of the BCS and a series of rankings (now including my own!). Who can say the Utes don't have a legitimate claim on the title? How far would the Utes have gone in a playoff? To win the championship in the final game of the year? We'll never know...so, again:
I declare the Utes national champions!
