Utah Utes NCAA Football News

When it comes to protecting the quarterback, BYU sophomore left tackle Matt Reynolds has Max Hall's back.

Provo ? Saturday's BYU- Utah football game is obviously important to both programs, and not just because both teams are nationally ranked, have identical 9-2 records and need the win to keep their momentum going into a bowl game.

Call it trash talk, cyber-style. It reaches warp-speed during the week of the annual BYU- Utah football game.

Utah quarterback Jordan Wynn isn't quite sure what he's getting into Saturday at BYU.

Utah running back Eddie Wide has faced BYU twice in his career. In both games, however, he was relegated to special teams.

During his brief tenure as Utah's offensive coordinator under Urban Meyer, UNLV head coach Mike Sanford witnessed extreme ends of the spectrum in games between BYU and Utah.

Of all the individual match-ups in this year's BYU-Utah game, few, if any, loom as large as seniors Max Hall and Robert Johnson.

San Diego State at No. 23 Utah Rain/snow showers: 40 degrees Today, 2 p.m. - Rice-Eccles Stadium - Salt Lake CIty.

Mountain West Conference commissioner Craig Thompson takes great pride in the fact that ESPN's "College GameDay" program has been broadcast from three league venues in the past four weeks.

The Utah football team put together its best offensive half of the season Saturday against San Diego State in racing to a 38-0 halftime lead at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

Banged and bruised, Utah quarterback Jordan Wynn is ready for another shot. Wynn and the No.

In the last four weeks, how many times has ESPN's College Game Day crew done its show from a Mountain West Conference campus? Well, I guess it's pointless to call it trivia.

With their six-game win streak having recently ended, the 23rd-ranked Utah Utes now turn their attention to the San Diego State Aztecs and the Mountain West Conference challenge that lies before them at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City this weekend.

Utah linebacker Kepa Gaison hadn't really thought about it until the team left for TCU last week.

TCU coach Gary Patterson acknowledges that last year's 13-10 loss at Utah was a heartbreaker.

UTAH VS. TEXAS CHRISTIAN WHEN: 4:30 p.m. today WHERE: Amon Carter Stadium, Fort Worth, Texas TV/RADIO: CBSC , KBAD-AM LINE: TCU -191/2; total 461/2 Texas Christian running back Ryan Christian celebrates his 44-yard touchdown reception in the Horned Frogs' 55-12 victory over San Diego State on Nov.

The view from the TCU athletic director's suite in the end zone is obscured by guests standing and high-fiving 'til their palms bleed.

No. 4 ranked TCU showed Utah just why it is one of the top teams in the country with a convincing 55-28 victory over the outmanned Utes Saturday night at Amon G. Carter Stadium.

Motivation goes only so far in college football . Utah , the 16th-ranked team in the country, has plenty of motivation this week in traveling to play No.

FORT WORTH A The kid looks just the way he should. Young. Excited. Not the least bit jaded.