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2024 Utah Utes College Football Betting

The 2024 season is the dawn of a new era for the Utah Utes. IN 2011, the Utes moved from the Mountain West Conference to the big time and the Pac-12. But after the implosion of the Pac-12 the Utes are moving to the Big 12 for the 2024 campaign. Utah is one of the favorites to win the Big 12, along with Kansas State and Kansas. Despite playing in their third league in 14 years, the one constant that Utah has is head coach Kyle Whittingham. Whittingham took over from Urban Meyer after an undefeated 2004 campaign. Since he has been the head coach, Utah has become an attractive program that rates in the national conversation. Whittingham has led Utah to three conference championships and seven double-digit win campaigns. Utah finished 12th and 10th in the final national rankings in the past two years.

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2024 Utah Utes Betting Preview

Utah may be new to the Big 12, but the Utes may also have the best team in the conference. They return one of the best quarterbacks in the sport in senior Cameron Rising, and they have added more weapons around him. Defensively, they always have a stingy unit, and that will continue in 2024. Realistically, anything short of a College Football Playoff berth would be a letdown, assuming they don’t have major injury issues like they did last season.

The Utah offense in 2023 was a shell of the unit that helped lead the team to back-to-back Pac-12 titles in the two seasons prior. The main reason was the absence of star quarterback Cameron Rising, who blew out his knee in the Rose Bowl the prior year. His top target, tight end Brant Kuithe, missed the season as well.

Rising and Kuithe are both back in 2024, and the Utes’ offense added a major big-play threat in USC transfer Dorian Singer, who was named to the AP All-Pac-12 first team in 2022 at Arizona. They could very well end up forming one of the best trios in college football. While the running back room lost Ja’Quinden Jackson, the Utes still have an impressive stable of backs to throw at opponents, including Micah Bernard, who missed 11 games last season with an off-the-field injury.

They should also regain their dynamism in the passing game and will be worlds better than the 166 yards per game and 15 total scores that they mustered last season through the air.

The biggest question for this unit is how the Utes will make up for the 12 sacks they lost with Jonah Elliss’ departure for the NFL. Logan Fano should generate a ton of pressure, as will linebacker Lander Barton, who will likely be moved all over the front. Utah should have one of the stingiest units in the Big 12.

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The Utah Utes have never won a national championship but boast 25 conference titles in their history. Utah has posted double-digit win seasons in their last two fully scheduled campaigns. Whittingham has had seven double-digit win seasons since 2008 and led Utah to a national ranking of 2nd that year.

Whittingham is a former national coach of the year and a 2-time Pac-12 coach of the year.

Previously head coach Ron McBride was the first consistent winner at Utah. McBride put Utah in six bowl games from 1990 through 2002. He led Utah to a final national ranking of 10th in 1994.

Urban Meyer coached only two years at Utah but led a 12-0 season in 2004 and a final national ranking of 4th. Meyer parlayed that success into a job in Florida, where he won two national championships.

The Utes are in their greatest era of glory, and the best may yet be coming.

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