Football

Utes scarcely out of top 25 in first mentors survey, BYU likewise getting votes

The primary USA Today Sports AFCA Coaches Poll of the 2021 school football season was delivered Tuesday, and the Utah Utes scarcely missed being in the main 25.

The Utes are on the rundown of “others getting votes” with 145 focuses, basically positioning them 26th in the nation to begin the season. They are only four focuses behind 25th-positioned Ole Miss.

Somewhere else in the Beehive State, the BYU Cougars are basically positioned 31st in the country with 53 focuses, 15 focuses behind individual free Liberty.

The Cougars completed the 2020 season with a 11-1 record and positioned sixteenth in the College Football Playoff rankings and No. 11 in The Associated Press Top 25.

Utah completed 3-2.

As has been the situation for various years, the survey gives the feeling that the Utes’ meeting, the Pac-12, probably won’t have an extraordinary group this year, however various generally excellent ones. Oregon is the highest level group from the meeting at No. 12, USC is No. 14 and Washington is No. 21.

Arizona State is two spots behind Utah with 90 focuses, while UCLA got seven focuses and Stanford and Cal one each, alongside Marshall and Florida State.

Utah mentor Kyle Whittingham is one of the 65 citizens in the survey, as is new Utah State mentor Blake Anderson.

In Tuesday’s survey, Alabama is positioned No. 1 in the country. Clemson, Oklahoma, Ohio State and Georgia balance the best five.