As the coach, alongside his victorious Utes, walked off his home field for the last time this season late Saturday night, his team having dispatched the Colorado Buffaloes by the count of 34-13, he seemed partly pleased, but far from satisfied.

Whittingham had half a mind to do things the old way here — run the football down the mugs of the Buffs, and that’s exactly what he did. Moss had 26 carries for 196 yards, including a number of brutish efforts, beastly and beautiful things.