Varied postseason possibilities are in a play for a Utah football team that will start the 2018 season just outside of the Top 25, with the program’s best collection of talent in the Pac-12 era. The Utes have an opportunity to exploit a disheveled division — ESPN ranked the Pac-12 South the worst of the nine divisions in Power Five conferences — and win its first South championship in eight years of membership.
The Utes have the dual psychological edge of believing they're good, but knowing they have something to prove.
They’re unranked. That should be reassuring to those who worry about expectations being too high for them.