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1953 Utah Utes football team

1953 Utah Utes football
MSC Champions
Conference Mountain States Conference
1953 record 8–2 (5–0 MSC)
Head coach Jack Curtice
Home stadium Ute Stadium
Seasons
← 1952
1954 →
1953 MSC football standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   T     W   L   T
Utah $ 5 0 0     8 2 0
Utah State 5 2 0     8 3 0
Wyoming 4 2 1     5 4 1
New Mexico 3 2 1     5 3 1
Colorado A&M 3 4 0     4 5 0
Montana 2 4 0     3 5 0
Denver 1 5 1     3 5 2
BYU 1 5 1     2 7 1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1953 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah during the 1953 college football season. Utah played its first nationally televised game in the final game of the season in 1953. NBC broadcast 12 games during the season, which makes the BYU–Utah game played on Thanksgiving Day among the first nationally broadcast college football games. The previous week Utah had already clinched the Skyline Conference championship. BYU had only one two games that year. Consequently, Utah was favored to win the game. BYU played tough, though, and Utah ended up winning by one point, 33–32.

Utah had four players selected in the 1954 NFL Draft.


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