• "Mark this down right now.
  
  Utah this season will qualify for the College Football Playoff. And not just that, the Utes will play host to a first-round playoff game at home. Picture the madness that will ensue at Rice-Eccles on that occasion.
  
  Do more than just picture it, expect it, write it in the color of blood, the color of crimson."
  
  
• "That’s destiny, and Utah’s is to win a great majority of its games this season, many of them easily, a couple of them barely.

  It is what it is.

  That’s not the pronouncement of some honk of a hometown writer. Emotion, nor love, has got nothing to do with it. Truth is, I couldn’t care less. This has nothing to do with cheering for the Utes or hoping they do what they do. It’s a matter of fact. And it’s not to say the Utes won’t have to put in the work. It’s to say they will."
  
  

• "The Utes are too talented, too coached up, too deep for any such nonsense, and darn-near everyone, inside and outside the program, knows it. That’s why the prediction here is shared by others, that Utah will either edge toward or blow past double-figure wins, qualify for the Big 12 championship game, and even if for some unforeseen reason the Utes don’t win it, they still could get into the playoff.

  Everyone respects Utah football, as everyone should. Yeah, the Utes have lost some bowl games. They may not live in the same cul-de-sac as Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State, but they do live just around the corner, a few houses down, and that will become more evident in 2024."

Pull quote: "Utah this season will qualify for the College Football Playoff... The Utes are too talented, too coached up, [and] too deep... and darn-near everyone, inside and outside the program, knows it. Utah will either edge toward or blow past double-figure wins, qualify for the Big 12 championship game, and... get into the playoff.