#1-In 2021 and 2022 Cam played in 13 of 14 games in each of those seasons. That's pretty close to a full season for many QB's.

#2 and far more important- For most of Utah's time in the PAC, the PAC has been abysmal finishing most seasons as the weakest conf. of the P5. Many seasons the PAC has only barely finished ahead of the AAC. One or two seasons the PAC has had a losing record against the MWC.
Now the Utes are stepping up to a conf. that over the last 5 years has finished as the 2nd or 3rd strongest of the P5. And yet somehow they will do at least as good as they did in the significantly weaker PAC.

I will grant that Utah has been given one of the softest conference slates of all of the teams in the Big 12. It doesn't hurt that Utah gets to play 3 of their former PAC Conf. mates.

Just looking at Utah's schedule I see 3 conference loses and a couple of games I expect to be tossups. @ OK. St., @ UCF, and Arizona that just demolished Utah last year and returns most of the what they had from last year. Tossups- @ Colorado, vs. TCU. I expect both of those teams to be much better than last year.