Utah is a loser because it spent 12 years puffing its chest about P5 inclusion instead of making itself "BYU-proof" in preparation for the inevitable day that BYU became a member of the Club. Even better, Utah helped usher in that day with its idiotic determination of, and the PAC12's moronic decision to demand it, $50 million in media rights value.
When Utah looks for who is to blame that they lost out to BYU in the conference expansion war, all it has to do is look in the mirror.