Utah as National Champs

A post at The Big Lead spurred me to post about something I was thinking about earlier in the day. Utah won't get the chance but I have to say that I see no way that Utah would be able to beat a Florida, USC, Oklahoma or Texas team this year. No way. That's my personal opinion. It's not something that has been proven on the field of play.

The real reason you won't see a clamoring for Utah being named national champs, though, is because of the opinions of others. Utah as national champs would be a complete slap in the face of the football writers who vote in the AP poll. A poll that did not even have Utah in their Top 25 in the preseason rankings. To acknowledge even a pretext of a possibility of Utah having a claim to the national championship would be to at the same time say that all the voters in the AP poll had their heads so far up their asses as to not even see the potential of a Utah team in the top 25 never mind as national champion. The egos of the sportswriters aren't geared toward admitting their mistakes.

Thus - don't expect many "Utah as national champs" stories coming from anyone soon who votes in the AP poll.