Saturday, January 3, 2009

Utah Kicks Alabama's Butt in Sugar Bowl

Utah despite having a higher average computer ranking than the one-loss Alabama Tide, they were a 10 1/2 point underdog going into the game. Alabama thought the game was going to be a blow out and they almost got it right, but it was the other team giving them the butt whooping. Utah won the toss and elected to kick, giving Alabama the ball 1st, didn't matter, after about 6 minutes of play it was Utah 14 Alabama 0. At the end of the 1st quarter it was 21 to 0. Final score Utah 31 Alabama 17 and Utah is the only unbeaten team in the United States of America right now in Division I football! Interesting, even after winning the Mountain West Conference, the Utes were left out of the BCS national championship game in favor of perennial powers Florida and Oklahoma, even though both have one loss. Doesn't speak well of the BCS system (Sorry Ray but Utah would Kick Florida's Butt as well!). Utah not only showed it could hang with the big boys, it easily dominated one of them.

Mikey in his Utah Utes Sweats Shannon & Ray bought him for Christmas :)

Score at the end of 1st quarter

Mikey trying to show the Utah Utes printed on the leg


And in case you missed it, the final score!

4 comments:

mode36 said...

Nice pictures...we definitely did not miss the game.  Awesome!

In his interview after the game Brian Johnson was asked where he saw the Utes in the rankings.  He rightfully said #1 since they are the only undefeated team, beat Alabama by more than Florida did, and had what he called a harder season than Alabama had.

Go Utes!

Tiffany said...

I LOVE that you watched the game. There was much yelling and celebrating here that is for sure.

We feel a fondness for the Gators given who their head coach is, but the match up would be interesting wouldn't it?

What a great football game.

MeMe in Paradise! said...

Glad your team won!! What was the final score? I couldn't read it

Love the sweats!

M and M said...

Final score was Utah 31 Alabama 17. Go Utes!