Utah Utes football

The Utah Utes are a college football team that competes in the Mountain West Conference (MWC) of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of NCAA Division I, representing the University of Utah. The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Rice-Eccles Stadium since 1927. They have won twenty-six conference championships in five different conferences during their history, and have a cumulative record of 608–418–31 (608 wins, 418 losses, and 31 ties).

The Utes have a record of 11–3 (.786) in bowl games, which is the highest winning percentage in the nation among teams that have had ten or more bowl appearances. They have won their last eight bowl games, which is the longest active winning streak.

Among Utah's bowls are two games from the Bowl Championship Series (BCS): the Fiesta Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. In the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, Utah defeated the Pittsburgh Panthers 35–7, and in the 2009 Sugar Bowl, they defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide 31–17. They are the only MWC team to have played in a BCS bowl, and they were the first team from a conference without an automatic bid to play in a BCS bowl game—colloquially known as being a BCS Buster. They are the only BCS Buster to go to a BCS bowl a second time.