In the losses against good teams, they gave up 21, 35, 35, and 42.
The BEST team Utah beat last year was 7-5.
You claimed the offense was a lot better in prior years and while that is true, they had a 73 point game against SOUTHERN UTAH in 2022, played USC twice in 2022 (laughable defense the last few years), and played Stanford in both years(52 & 42 pts), scored 63 against CU (LOL!). So there was some serious RUTS against bad teams going on in those years.