uat would've been up to play Texas, I can pretty much guarantee you that. I'm not saying they would've won, but, they wouldn't have come out as flat as they did. It was pretty much the perfect storm for Utah....A Really Good team, from a small conference, going up against a team that wanted to be in Miami, the loss of One of the few stars on the team, an Oline with No experience Depthwise, the Head Defensive Coach being leaked out that he's leaving to Clemson about 4 or 5 days before the game (True or not, Steele's agent is Jimmy Sexton...so, who knows), hearing from everyone, aside from Captain Kirk, that the bammers will run all over Utah, and the bammer players hearing from their own HC that, basically, this Utah team isn't a Real team. That is a Perfect Storm.
Now bammers get to hear that Auburn is making Splash Hires, from keeping Coach Willis, hiring Coach Malzahn, bringing in one of the top RB Coaches in D1 (he was a candidate for RB Coach of the Year), in Coach Luper, and now the possibility of bringing in Trooper Taylor.
On top of all of that, the investigation that's going on over there in West Vance.