Utah escapes BYU in the Holy War. Survivors or contenders?

Avinash: What are your thoughts on Utah winning one of the ugliest Holy Wars in recent memory? Do you feel like the Utes have something going or is there a ceiling on their success?Taylor Henry: Utah's defense is very opportunistic, which helped them extensively yesterday. The issue for me is the way they take care of the ball on offense https://www.oregonducksfanshop.com/154-Jaylon_Redd_Jersey, as well as their lack of offensive firepower. Eventually leaning so heavily on your defense will come back to bite you. Utah will be good, but I don't consider them a serious contender in the Pac-12 this year.Gabey Lucas: The Utah of the first two games has been the Utah I widely expected this year - really tough but lacking that offensive capabilities to assert their will over other teams, and for that reason I was a bit surprised when people were predicting them as Pac 12 contenders. That being said, I still would take their strengths and weaknesses over a team like Oregon who at least at the moment has insane skill players but doesn't have that physicality in the lines and on defense https://www.oregonducksfanshop.com/27-Charlie_Landgraf_Jersey. I think Utah's a fundamentally above average team and Kyle Whittingham's a tremendous coach, but you still need to be able to move the ball downfield better. I've held the position since last December that this year they will have a bit of difficulty and not have as much statistical success as last year, probably in the W/L column as well, but that any blips that come their way this year won't be permanent. They have the foundations down for long term success, that's for sure, but this year I think will end up a down-ish year, relatively unless their offense all the sudden finds some magic.