Utah·Pac-12

2022 — The Top-10 Year

Utah finished 2022 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.

Record 10-4
Final result 10-win season Lost the Rose Bowl
AP final #7 post-bowls
SP+ +9.7 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Florida 26-29 W vs Sout Uta 73-7 W vs San Sta 35-7 W @ Ariz Sta 34-13 W vs Oreg Sta 42-16 L @ UCLA 32-42 W vs USC 43-42 W @ Wash St 21-17 W vs Arizona 45-20 W vs Stanford 42-7 L @ Oregon 17-20 W @ Colorado 63-21 W @ USC 47-24 L vs Penn St 21-35 Bowl

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2022.

Defining moments
The statement

The 2022 season's largest margin: Utah 73, Southern Utah 7. A 66-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Utah 21, Penn State 35. A 14-point margin the season is remembered by.

The postseason

The season's last act: Utah fell to Penn State 21-35 in the postseason.

"Go Utes"
— Utah fanbase voice · 2022· synthesized
What it meant

2022 is a middle chapter for Utah — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.