Sometimes, success can lead you astray.

Take Utah’s best drive of the season: the nine-minute, 20-play, 80-yard drive that put the game away against UCLA late last month . Utes head coach Kyle Whittingham called it a “statement drive.”

There’s an argument to be made — and I’m going to make it — that it also might have been a drive that set the wrong statement for the Utes for the rest of the season.

The average touchdown-scoring drive in college football last season took just under eight plays. Sure, a few first downs are usually required, but typically, it’s chunk plays that make up the largest portion of a team’s offensive yards on scoring drives.

Dink and dunk can work. But most of the time, drives like that are going to stall out. Offenses simply need chunk plays to eat up the

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