Ryan McCrystal

Utah vs. BYU: Week 8 Betting Pick & Prediction We give you our college football prediction for BYU vs. Utah when betting against the spread, breaking down Week 8 of the 2025 NCAA season.

Devon Dampier is completing 24% of his throws at 15+ yards downfield, ranked 132nd.

Can Utah beat a strong BYU squad on the road without a downfield passing attack?

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If he doesn't start developing QBs within the program, it's only a matter of time before he lands on his DJ Uiagalelei and the season goes completely sideways. And it's not easy to recover from that. Even a program like FSU is struggling to bounce back.

Now that Cignetti is entrenched at IU and the 3rd highest paid coach in CFB.. I feel like it's time to call out the biggest question:

Can he develop a quarterback?

In four years as an FBS head coach he's had four different QBs transfer in and immediately start. That won't work long term.

The more I dig into the numbers on this Ole Miss/Georgia game, I get the sense we're gonna have a shootout in Athens.

Ole Miss can't stop the run. Georgia can't stop the pass.

Call it whatever you want, but they're paying him more than anyone else was going to pay him. That's the only way to convince someone to choose Indiana over Penn State.

To elevate a historically terrible program you have to either get lucky with an alum who turns out to be a good coach and wants to stay (Pat Fitzgerald for example). Or you need to overpay to make them stay somewhere they otherwise wouldn’t want to be.

Indiana is obviously overpaying Curt Cignetti relative to what he’s proven.

But how the hell else is Indiana supposed to turn itself into a program to be taken seriously?

Any criticism of the deal is misguided.

Just absolutely hilarious that James Franklin managed to get fired during the easiest part of his schedule.

Largest gap between current strength of schedule and remaining schedule (so scheds that get much harder):

Navy +104 (cur. 136, rem. 32)
Penn State +79 🤣
Maryland +72
BYU +64
WKU +61
USC +58
NM State +58
Pitt +57

I'm disappointed Game Day didn't go to BYU this week.

They've only been once, in 2009. And this is the first time both teams have been ranked entering the Holy War since 2009.

Game Day has also only been to the Holy War once, in 2004 when Utah hosted during its undefeated Urban Meyer season

This was the highest pressure rate allowed by Oregon since UCLA pressured Tyler Shough 54% of the time in 2020

Utah is the only team that ranks in the top 10 of lowest pressure rate allowed and highest pressure rate generated.

This was the highest pressure rate allowed by Oregon since UCLA pressured Tyler Shough 54% of the time in 2020

Are you familiar with telephones and email?

How is the fact that she’s a housewife relevant? I’m a stay at home dad who also writes part time. Sounds like she’s a stay at home mom who writes part time. Who cares?

No. 15 BYU is hosting No. 23 Utah this week.

It's the first time BYU and Utah have met as ranked opponents since 2009 when Max Hall led BYU to an overtime win

This article was written by the AP, I just happened to post the espn version of it.

Trump threatens to remove WC games from Boston President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to revoke Boston's World Cup matches if local authorities don't get tougher on crime.

It took 8 paragraphs before acknowledging he has zero power over World Cup locations.

The press needs to be more direct in labelling lies and empty threats, preferably in headlines.

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The Titans have wasted a year of Cam Ward where they didn’t really learn much about him. Now he’s gotta learn a new offense next year which will basically be a re-do of his rookie year for that reason. They’re setting back his development while also wasting his cheap contract years.

Yep. It starts at the top with these dysfunctional organizations and we don’t talk about it enough.

If firing Callahan six games into the season was on the table, then he never should have participated in the choice of the No. 1 pick.

Never let a lame duck coach draft a QB.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Read this.

This is the future of the Republican party. Trump is the tip of the iceberg.

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Only 37% of Dylan Raiola's pass attempts have been more than 5 yards downfield, lowest rate of any P4 QB.

They're 5-1, so I guess its working. But certainly odd given the hype for him as a recruit and the upgraded WR corps Nebraska has this year.

Crazy Utah stat here..

Utah is reaching 3rd-and-long at the nation's lowest rate (12% of their sets of downs).

And when they do reach 3rd-and-long, they're converting at the nation's highest rate (47%)

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

No. 15 BYU is hosting No. 23 Utah this week.

It's the first time BYU and Utah have met as ranked opponents since 2009 when Max Hall led BYU to an overtime win

You could certainly make a case that A&M looks like the best team in the SEC right now. But I don't see how they manage this remaining schedule without at least 2 losses.

They could still easily lose at LSU, at Missouri and at Texas and miss the playoffs

Here's my projected CFP bracket entering Week 8

With road games at Mizzou and UGA out of the way, Alabama has the easiest path to the SEC title.

I think IU and OSU both go 12-0 and the B10 title game loser still gets a bye (maybe even the No. 2 seed).

Everyone forgot about Duke after they lost to Illinois and Tulane.. but suddenly they've got it rolling again and have a manageable schedule with GT and UVA at home.

If they beat GT this weekend, Duke is the favorite to play Miami in the ACC title game and a 10-2 record is very much in play.

There is a very real chance 9-2 Washington is hosting 10-1 Oregon in the regular season finale with a Big 10 title game bid and potential playoff spot on the line