UTAH RUNNING UTES RUMORS & GOSSIP

The University of Utah is considering moving away from the Ute nickname, despite having the endorsement of the Ute tribe to use the Native American moniker. 

To kick off our Great Western Uniform Bracket 2011, newcomer Utah takes on Arizona State's new Nike look for the right to face UCLA in the second round next week. Never mind that the Utes rock what could be one of college football's least inspired ensembles and ASU is debuting its new style this season--this could be a good one. It's Under Armour versus Nike; established...

Fat, drunk, and on the wrong side of the highway is no way to go through life. Utah linebacker Timote Nai Fotu was stopped at 2am on Sunday for driving on the wrong side of the freeway. Footage from the arresting officer’s dashboard camera shows Fotu’s truck facing the oncoming traffic. The officer asks Fotu if he’s been drinking, he responds, “One or two beers.” Then...

Sadly, athlete DUIs are fairly commonplace nowadays. What's not common is being so intoxicated that you end up driving on the wrong side of the freeway.

The Pac-10 is poised to become the Pac-12 after they successfully wooed Colorado away from the Big-12 and Utah away from the Mountain West. Naturally the conference now wants to set up a website, Pac12.com, for its new namesake. However, Tupac Shakur has managed to throw a postmortem wrench in their plans.. The domain name Pac12.com is currently owned by a fan of the late...

Rather than getting a shot at a big-time football school, Boise State will face Utah in the MAACO Bowl in Las Vegas. Boise State had the ultimate chance to become the biggest Cinderella in the history of athletics. And then, Broncos place-kicker Kyle Brotzman missed two chip shot field goal attempts against Nevada to ruin the story for all the orange and blue crazed kids out there...

Much was made of the TCU/Utah game this week. After all, it is possibly the only time top five teams are going to match up for the rest of the season, and it was a game that would eliminate one non-AQ school from a shot at the BCS altogether. But one of the biggest stories heading into Saturday was that few people were going to get to see the game at all, no matter how...

After being unable to reel in the Big 12's big fish, the Pac-10 is now reportedly set to announce the addition of Utah on Wednesday, although their commisioner isn't saying a word just yet.

There’s no doubt that the Pac-10 has the talent and programs to compete with any conference in America across all sports in any given year. The one area where the Pac-10 can’t match other conferences however is TV deals. The Big Ten and Mountain West have their own TV networks. Most other [...]

ESPN's front page said something like "too much Tim Tebow and plenty of Percy Harvin..."; you don't need to hear the rest. Everyone knows that the game last night was supposed to crown us a champion. But did it? I, for one, don't think so.As a fan of college football, and therefore a staunch opponent of the BCS, I was cheering for whatever would reflect badly...

Apparently, the state of Utah takes football so seriously that they may want to file a lawsuit over the Utes not playing for the national title. But Utah was not left out of the title game simply because they don't belong to a BCS conference.

After beating Alabama in the Sugar Bowl 31-17, Utah was tooting its own horn about achieving perfection. The Utes finished the year at 13-0 becoming the only undefeated team in Division-I. Not helping matters is coach Kyle Whittingham's claim that he's voting his team #1 in the Coaches' Poll. "This is a [...]

Pretty much from the start the Utah Utes controlled this year's Sugar Bowl against Alabama. They become the first non-BCS team to win two BCS bowls and have a legitimate case for a national championship berth but the current system does not allow such things.

The Utah Utes haven't been the same since the drafting of quarterback Alex Smith and the departure of head coach Urban Meyer. They find themselves matched up against Tulsa in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, This game will probably be as good as you could expect a matchup between Conference USA and Mountain West teams to be.