Utah’s performance this past weekend was about as impressive as any in the first full week of college football, and that’s saying something on account of some of the stellar efforts put up by other quality teams.

Rankings are hard to predict with any exactness, but the presumption here is that other folks may — should — have been impressed, as well, including those who vote in the polls. Not sure how many of them were actually awake to take in the entire Utes’ throttling of UCLA since the game ended around 2 a.m. Eastern Time. But if they happened to dial in throughout, they had to have seen what the rest of us saw — a Utah team that dominated, as Kyle Whittingham said it afterward, “a Big Ten team on its home field.” Unmistakable emphasis on … a … Big … Ten … team.

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