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Kicking Off Utah Fast Facts General Information
Department Phone Numbers
Athletics Department: (801) 581-8171 Football Office: (801) 581-7684 Sports Information: (801) 581-3511/3510/8302 Stadium Press Box: (801) 581-8210/585-6934 Ticket Office: (801) 581-8849 SID Fax: 581-4358 Football Fax: 585-3808
Utah Schemes Offense: Spread Defense: 4-3
2006 Utah Football Results 8-5, 5-3 MWC/3rd-tie • Armed Forces Bowl Champion Date Opponent TV Result 9-2 at UCLA FSN L, 31-10 9-9 Northern Arizona Mtn. W, 45-7 9-16 at Utah State KJZZ W, 48-0 9-23 at San Diego State* Mtn. W, 38-7 9-30 Boise State VERSUS L, 36-3 10-5 TCU* VERSUS W, 20-7 10-14 at Wyoming* Mtn. L, 31-15 10-19 at New Mexico* Mtn. L, 34-31 10-28 UNLV* Mtn. W, 45-23 11-11 Colorado State* VERSUS W, 35-22 11-18 at Air Force* Mtn. W, 17-14 11-25 Brigham Young* CSTV & Mtn. L, 33-31 12-23 Tulsa^ ESPN W, 25-13 *Mountain West Conference game • ^BHAF Bowl
Credits Editorial Content: Liz Abel, Associate Athletics Director. Layout and Design: Mike Lageschulte, Director of Publications and Broadcasting. Cover Design: Rocky Lindgren Photography: Steve Wilson, Tom Smart, Jeff Dunn, Derik Moore, Layne Murdoch, University Marketing & Communications, U. Special Collections-J.W. Marriott Library, Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau, Utah Travel Council.
Support Services 102
Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Fast Facts/Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2006 Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Athletics Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102-103 Athletics Director Dr. Chris Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 President Michael K. Young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Utah Football Schedules
2007 Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Future Schedules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Road Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Series History 106
Series Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107-108 Scores vs. NCAA Opponents . . . . . . . . . . 108-112
Red Hot Program
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From Utah to the NFL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-6 The Only Ones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Top of the Mountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Bowl Roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 BCS Busters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11 Game Day Excitement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Utes on Network TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Meet the MWC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 MWC Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Composite Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 MWC Bowl Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 NCAA Bowl Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 MWC Bowl History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 2006 MWC Rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119-121 2006 MWC Standings & Awards . . . . . . . . . . . 122
The Utah Experience 14
Reviewing 2006 123
Polynesian Pipeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Utah Traditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16-17 Utah Athletics History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18-19 University of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20-21 Campus Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Academic Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23-25 NCAA CHAMPS/Life Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Rice-Eccles Stadium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-29 Football Practice Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Smith Athletics Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31-33 Strength & Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34-36 Competition Venues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Salt Lake City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Media Information
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Preview & Rosters
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Player Profiles
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Coaches
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Utah Staff Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Opponent Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utah Media Outlets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Utah Radio & TV Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CSTV, The Mtn., VERSUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Player Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 How the Utes were Built . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Recruit Roster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 2007 Rosters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48-52 Pronunciation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Depth Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54-58
Mountain West Conference 113
Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124-125 Starting Lineups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Senior Bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128-130 Review & Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Game Recaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132-144
Bowl History 145 Bowl Recaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146-156
Ute Record Book 157 Top 25 Finishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Utah in the Polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Season Record & Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Conference Finishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Homecoming Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 The Longest Yard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Single Game Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Annual Leaders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Individual Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166-175 Team Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176-181 Bowl Records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182-183 All-Conference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184-185 Notable Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 All-Americans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Ute All-Americans’ Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . 188-189 Ute Draft Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190-191 Utes in the Pros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192-194 Lettermen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195-201 Schedules & Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202-208
Returner Bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60-85 Newcomer Bios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86-88
Head Coach Kyle Whittingham . . . . . . . . . . . 90-91 Gary Andersen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Andy Ludwig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Aaron Alford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Charlie Dickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Jay Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Derrick Odum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Aaron Roderick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Dave Schramm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Kalani Sitake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Zac Connors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Morgan Scalley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
The Marching Band and other Utah traditions on pages 14-15.
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Metro Population: 1,333,914 Elevation: 4,657 feet President: Michael K. Young Director of Athletics: Dr. Chris Hill Governing Body: Board of Trustees & Board of Regents Founded: 1850 Enrollment: 28,619 Nickname: Utes Colors: Crimson and White Mascot: Swoop (red-tailed hawk) Stadium: Rice-Eccles: 45,017 Surface: FieldTurf Indoor Facility: Spence Eccles Field House Website: www.UtahUtes.com Conference: Mountain West Conference Affiliation: NCAA Division I-FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision)
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Schedules 2007 Utah Football Schedule
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Date Aug. 30 (Thu.) Sept. 8 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 29 Oct. 5 (Fri.) Oct. 13 Oct. 18 (Thu.) Oct. 27 Nov. 10 Nov. 17 Nov. 24
Opponent Oregon State Air Force* UCLA at UNLV* Utah State (HC) at Louisville San Diego State* at TCU* at Colorado State* Wyoming* New Mexico* at Brigham Young*
Site Corvallis, Ore. Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Las Vegas, Nev. Salt Lake City Louisville, Ky. Salt Lake City Ft. Worth, Texas Ft. Collins, Colo. Salt Lake City Salt Lake City Provo, Utah
Series 4-8-1 10-13 0-8 11-1 74-28-4 2-0 13-12-1 3-1 51-22-2 47-31-1 29-17-2 52-32-4
Last Meeting 1992, Utah 42-9 2006, Utah 17-14 2006, UCLA 31-10 2006, Utah 45-23 2006, Utah 48-0 1998, Utah 45-22 2006, Utah 38-7 2006, Utah 20-7 2006, Utah 35-22 2006, UW 31-15 2006, UNM 34-31 2006, BYU 33-31
TV FSN NW The Mtn. VERSUS The Mtn. The Mtn. ESPN No TV VERSUS The Mtn. CSTV The Mtn. The Mtn. & CSTV
Time 7:00 p.m. PT 4:00 p.m. MT 3:00 p.m. MT 7:00 p.m. PT 1:00 p.m. MT 8:00 p.m. ET 1:00 p.m. MT 7:00 p.m. CT 3:30 p.m. MT 1:30 p.m. MT 3:30 p.m. MT 12:00 p.m. MT
*-Mountain West Conference Game HC-Homecoming
Future Football Schedules 2008 8-30 9-6 9-13 9-27
2009 9-5 9-12 9-19 9-26
at Washington State Oregon State at Utah State Weber State Utah State at San Jose State at Oregon Louisville
2007 Road Headquarters 2010 9-4 9-11 9-18 9-25
2011 9-3 9-10 9-17 9-24
Washington State at Utah State at Iowa State San Jose State
Oregon State
Hilton Eugene & Conference Center 66 East 6th Avenue Eugene, OR 97401 541-342-2000
UNLV Iowa State Utah State Oregon at Boise State
*Schedules are subject to change. Mountain West Conference schedules are released in the spring preceding each season.
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Louisville
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TCU
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Colorado State
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BYU
Utah’s football team enjoys a large fan following to its road games. (Pictured: Ute fans snapped up most of the 74,000 seats in Sun Devil Stadium for the 2005 Fiesta Bowl).
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