LOS ANGELES — Utah’s players streamed into the visitor’s locker room with smiles on their faces, chattering about the dominant victory that had finished just moments before.

That moment was markedly different than the majority of the walks to the locker room last season, which were full of hanging heads and a sense of disbelief that the losing streak just kept continuing.

In many ways, Saturday night’s 43-10 blowout of UCLA at the Rose Bowl — the site of two recent crushing Ute losses on a grand stage in the nation’s oldest bowl game — was an exorcism of sorts for a program that needed it.

“This feels great. This feels great to come out here and just handle business. I know the last couple of games that we’ve been to the Rose Bowl wasn’t the outcome that we wanted, so to walk out with t

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