Three evenings each week, Utah kicker Andrew Strauch grabs a to-go box from the Eccles Football Center cafeteria after practice and heads across campus to attend a graduate school course in real estate development.
Ute offensive lineman Darrin Paulo, possessing an economics degree, is enrolled only in bowling and billiards.
In their own ways, both players' fall-semester workloads illustrate how No. 11 Utah may be the most educated college football team in the country. When the Utes play in a bowl game in December or January, they expect to have nearly two dozen players with undergraduate degrees.