If you took all of the various reactions to this game, you could roughly place them into two broad categories.
The first? Resigned acceptance at the vagaries of fate. What exactly did you all expect to happen with a 3rd string true freshman getting his first start on the road against a domineering Utah team? Does it suck that we’re in this situation? Sure, but there wasn’t much that anybody could have done about it, and overwrought reactions aren’t warranted or useful.
The second? When a team that is specifically built to NOT get blown out gets blown out, while simultaneously ending a two decade streak of not getting shut-out, many are going to seize on this game as a signal point game.