Now, it's not because the Utes played in a BCS bowl game - and won convincingly over an Alabama team that was ranked No. 1 for five weeks. Utah has become the underdog darlings of the media.
All you have to do is see the attention the program is getting.
From the Washington Post (and award-winning journalist and author John Feinstein, no less)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/06/AR2009010600092.html?hpid=moreheadlines
From ESPN (and another award-winning journalist and writer in Rick Reilly)
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=3815656
And then there's Yahoo's Dan Wetzel, who reveals more of the hypocrisy that is the BCS system and with the Harris poll in particular
http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=dw-utah010509&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
You'll notice the theme here, and it's a good one for anyone who is a Utah fan, a follower of the Mountain West Conference or majority of the country that doesn't live in BCS country.
Lastly, one more column. This is by Randy Harrison of the Albuquerque Journal, and he details his thought process in determining who will get his first-place vote in the Associated Press poll. You won't be surprised at the conclusion he reaches.
For those who don't recall, it was Harrison's colleague, Greg Archuleta, who was the lone voter cast his ballot for Boise State as No. 1 when it went undefeated in 2006.
http://www.abqjournal.com/sports/0794003187sports01-07-09.htm
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