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2011 Utah Utes football team

2011 Utah Utes football
Utah Utes - U logo.svg
Sun Bowl Champions
Sun Bowl vs Georgia Tech, W 30–27 OT
Conference Pac-12 Conference
Division South Division
2011 record 8–5 (4–5 Pac-12)
Head coach Kyle Whittingham (7th year)
Offensive coordinator Norm Chow (1st year)
Offensive scheme Pro Style
Defensive coordinator Kalani Sitake (3rd year)
Base defense 4–3
Captain Tony Bergstrom
Star Lotulelei
Matt Martinez
Luke Matthews
Chaz Walker
Jordan Wynn
Home stadium Rice–Eccles Stadium
(Capacity: 45,017)
Seasons
« 2010 2012 »
2011 Pac-12 football standings
Conf     Overall
Team   W   L         W   L  
North Division
#4 Oregon xy$   8 1         12 2  
#7 Stanford x%   8 1         11 2  
Washington   5 4         7 6  
California   4 5         7 6  
Oregon State   3 6         3 9  
Washington State   2 7         4 8  
South Division
#6 USC *   7 2         10 2  
UCLA xy   5 4         6 8  
Utah   4 5         8 5  
Arizona State   4 5         6 7  
Arizona   2 7         4 8  
Colorado   2 7         3 10  
Championship: Oregon 49, UCLA 31
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant
  • * – USC ineligible for championship and post-season due to NCAA sanctions
As of January 10, 2012; Rankings from AP Poll
Montana State at Utah
1 2 3 4 Total
Bobcats 0 7 0 3 10
• Utes 17 7 3 0 27
  • Date: September 1
  • Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  • Game start: 6:07 pm
  • Elapsed time: 2:49
  • Game attendance: 45,311
  • Game weather: 80°, Sunny and Clear, winds NW 8 mph
  • Referee: Jay Stricherz
  • TV announcers (KJZZ): Steve Brown, Mike Norseth, and David Locke
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Utah at USC
1 2 3 4 Total
Utes 0 7 7 0 14
• Trojans 10 0 7 6 23
  • Date: September 10
  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Game start: 5:37 pm
  • Elapsed time: 3:17
  • Game attendance: 73,821
  • Game weather: 72°, Hazy, winds S 5 mph
  • Referee: Jack Folliard
  • TV announcers (Versus): Ted Robinson, Glenn Parker, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila
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Utah at BYU
1 2 3 4 Total
• Utes 7 7 16 24 54
Cougars 3 7 0 0 10
  • Date: September 17
  • Location: Provo, UT
  • Game start: 7:21 pm
  • Elapsed time: 3:42
  • Game attendance: 63,742
  • Game weather: 65°, fair, winds W 2 mph
  • Referee: Jack Wood
  • TV announcers (ESPN2; BYUtv): Ed Cunningham, Mark Jones, and Jessica Mendoza (ESPN2); Dave McCann, Gary Sheide, and Jarom Jordan (BYUtv)
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Washington at Utah
1 2 3 4 Total
• Huskies 7 3 14 7 31
Utes 7 0 0 7 14
  • Date: October 1
  • Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  • Game start: 5:10 pm
  • Elapsed time: 2:44
  • Game attendance: 45,412
  • Game weather: 81°, Partly Cloudy, winds SW 5 mph
  • Referee: Jay Stricherz
  • TV announcers (FSN): Ron Thulin, J. C. Pearson, and Jeremy Bloom
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#22 Arizona State at Utah
1 2 3 4 Total
• #22 Sun Devils 7 3 18 7 35
Utes 7 0 7 0 14
  • Date: October 8
  • Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  • Game start: 1:41 pm
  • Elapsed time: 2:57
  • Game attendance: 45,089
  • Game weather: 49°, Overcast, winds NNE 6 mph
  • Referee: Land Clark
  • TV announcers (FSN): Craig Bolerjack, Joel Klatt, and Petros Papadakis
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Utah at Pittsburgh
1 2 3 4 Total
• Utes 3 10 3 10 26
Panthers 14 0 0 0 14
  • Date: October 15
  • Location: Pittsburgh, PA
  • Game start: 10:01 am
  • Elapsed time: 3:17
  • Game attendance: 43,719
  • Game weather: 54°, Partly Sunny & Windy, winds WSW 18 mph
  • Referee: Michael Batlan
  • TV announcers (ESPNU): Rob Stone and Danny Kanell
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Utah at California
1 2 3 4 Total
Utes 0 0 0 10 10
• Golden Bears 0 20 7 7 34
  • Date: October 22
  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Game start: 5:06 pm
  • Elapsed time: 2:49
  • Game attendance: 35,182
  • Game weather: 78°, Clear, Nil
  • Referee: Terry Leyden
  • TV announcers (CSN-BA, KJZZ; ESPN Radio): Roxy Bernstein, Mike Pawlawski, and Chris Townsend (CSN-BA, KJZZ); Bill Rosinski, David Norrie, and Joe Schad (ESPN Radio)
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Oregon State at Utah
1 2 3 4 Total
Beavers 0 0 0 8 8
• Utes 3 21 0 3 27
  • Date: October 29
  • Location: Salt Lake City, UT
  • Game start: 5:07 pm
  • Elapsed time: 3:00
  • Game attendance: 45,017
  • Game weather: 56°, Mostly Clear, winds NW 8 mph
  • Referee: Jack Folliard
  • TV announcers (KJZZ, Root NW): Steve Brown, Mike Norseth, and David Locke
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The 2011 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah in the 2011 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by seventh year head coach Kyle Whittingham and played their home games in Rice–Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. After playing the previous 12 seasons in the Mountain West Conference, this was Utah's first season in the new Pac-12 Conference in the South Division. They are the first former "BCS Buster" to join a BCS conference. They finished the season 8–5, 4–5 to finish in a tie for third place in the South Division. They were invited to the Sun Bowl where they defeated Georgia Tech 30–27 in overtime.

The Pac-12 media picked Utah to finish third in the South Division. Four media members (out of 42 total) voted Utah first in the division. The media picked USC to finish first, but USC will be ineligible for the inaugural Pac-12 Championship Game due to NCAA sanctions. Arizona State came in second, and Arizona, UCLA, and Colorado finished fourth, fifth, and sixth, respectively, in the South Division voting. The media also picked Oregon to win the North Division with 29 first place votes, and to win the Pac-12 Championship Game and thus be the Pac-12 Champion.

Kyle Whittingham made a few changes to his coaching staff for the 2011 season. Prior to Utah's appearance in the 2010 Maaco Bowl Las Vegas defensive line coach John Pease retired from coaching. During the offseason, Whittingham replaced Pease with Chad Kauhaʻahaʻa, a second team all-WAC defensive lineman for Utah in 1996. The previous two seasons he had been the defensive line coach for Utah State.


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