Utah Utes Preview 2022: Season Prediction, Breakdown, Key Games, Players

Utah College Football Preview 2022: Team breakdown, season prediction, keys to the campaign, and what you need to know

Utah Utes Preview 2022: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Utah season with what you need to know and keys to the season.


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Utah Utes Preview
Head Coach: Kyle Whittingham, 144-70, 18th year at Utah
18th year overall, 144-70, 2021 Preview
2021 Record: Overall: 10-4, Conference: 8-1
Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Utah Top 10 Players | Utah Schedule & Analysis

Utah Utes Preview 2022

Ooooooh, so UCLA and USC are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten – and they’re taking their grand total of one Pac-12 Conference championship over the last 13 seasons with them.

Oregon and Utah. Those are the two power players in the Pac-12 over the last  four seasons, and at the time this is being written, those two can be a good base to keep the conference strong.

(However, by the time you’re reading this, there’s a shot Oregon already has 18 different Big Ten uniform combinations picked out and Utah is packing the furniture for the Big 12.)

Yes, Utah pivoted a bit a few years ago to add more of a downfield passing game – that tweak ended up coinciding with USC being down and the rest of the Pac-12 South struggling – and it all fit in perfectly with the brutish style of the toughest team in the Pac-12.

The Utes continue to put together great lines, great defenses, and great running games year after year under Kyle Whittingham, and nothing about that changes now.

Let’s say it does go to the Big 12. With or without Oklahoma and Texas, Utah is right there in the mix to be the best program in the league.

And if it stays in the Pac-12, with or without USC and UCLA, as long as this formula stays in place, and even without divisions, it’s still strong enough now to expect Pac-12 Championship appearances – including this season.

Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
Utah Top 10 Players | Utah Schedule & Analysis

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Utah Utes Top 10 Players: College Football Preview 2022

Who are the top 10 Utah players going into the 2022 college football season?

Utah Utes Preview 2022: Who are the top 10 players going into the season?


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Offense, Defense Breakdown | Keys To The Season
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
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Utah Utes: CFN College Football Preview 2021

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Utah football season with what you need to know.

College Football News Preview 2021: Previewing, predicting, and looking ahead to the Utah football season with what you need to know.


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– What You Need To Know: Offense | Defense
Top Players | Keys To The Season
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Utah Football Schedule Analysis
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2020 Record: 3-2 overall, 3-2 in Pac-12
Head Coach: Kyle Whittingham, 17th year, 134-66
2020 CFN Final Ranking: 27
2020 CFN Preview Ranking: 26
2019 CFN Final Ranking: 18

Utah Utes College Football Preview 2021: Offense

It was just about impossible to get last season going. Once the Utes finally got started in late November, just about everyone on the schedule had a few games under their belts. It wasn’t always smooth, but the ground game was fine, the attack dominated the time of possession battle, and …

The passing game wasn’t great. More on that in the Keys To The Season, but QB Jake Bentley was just okay, there weren’t enough downfield big plays, and the pivot to a more dynamic attack stalled.

Bentley took his talents to South Alabama, but Utah was able to land Charlie Brewer from Baylor – a solid four-year starter who’s been through the Big 12 wars. He’s got the talent around him – his job is to be the leader and steadying force who keeps pushing the offense.

The receiving corps lost deep threat Bryan Thompson to Arizona State, but it more than made up for it by getting former OU Sooner/UCLA Bruin Theo Howard – 132 catches for over 1,500 yards at the two schools – from the transfer portal.

TE Brant Kuithe led the team with 25 catches – who can get deep, but didn’t do it much last year – and Britain Covey is a terrific veteran who led the team in receiving yards in two of the last three years. Covey is only 5-8, but the Utes have some big guys in 6-4 Devaughn Vele and 6-3 Solomon Enis.

– The O line should be dominant. It’s Utah, so it’s massive up front and can get nasty. All five starters are expected back around Nick Ford, who can play anywhere on the line but has a home as a next-level center.

And of course, the Utah season will be played with the heaviest of hearts over the tragic death of RB Ty Jordan, who passed away after accidentally shooting himself. Along with being one of the more popular young players, he was the team’s leading rusher and a rising star as the Pac-12 Offensive Freshman of the Year.

Second-leading running back Devin Brumfield left for Tulane and Jordan Wilmore is gone to Fresno State, but TJ Pledger comes in from Oklahoma – he averaged five yards per carry, can catch, and isn’t bad on kick returns.

Pledger will work in the rotation with 216-pound LSU transfer Chris Curry and second-year freshman Micah Bernard.

– What You Need To Know: Defense
Top Players | Keys To The Season
What Will Happen, Win Total Prediction
Utah Football Schedule Analysis

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