Two games, two wire-to-wire victories for Kyle Whittingham and the Utah Utes to start the 2025 college football season.
Coming off a thrashing of UCLA at the Rose Bowl, the Utes entered their home opener against Cal Poly on Saturday looking to keep the momentum rolling and advance to 2-0.
Another highly-efficient outing from the Utes’ offense and a lights-out performance from Morgan Scalley’s defense made sure both of those aspirations came to fruition, as Utah cruised to a 63-9 victory over Cal Poly Saturday from Rice-Eccles Stadium.
“Overall, solid performance,” Whittingham summarized during his postgame press conference. “We took care of the business that we needed to take care of.”
Here’s more from Whittingham following Utah’s win.
“First off, that little thunder burst, it makes things a little more difficult. There’s no excuses, but I don’t think Devon was gripping as well as he could have when that 15 or 20 minute period, whatever it was … good question.”
“I mean, we just didn’t get in that rhythm. We didn’t come out as — I’m not going to say we weren’t ready, because we were ready to play — but we just didn’t come out executing as well as we did last week.”
“Yeah, so far. I mean, there’s things we need to get better at. They hit that glance route on us three or four times. We got to not let people inside; there’s things to work on, but you’re right — one touchdown in two games is the bottom line. And that’s a really good start to the season.”
“Well, I think that it’s really to my liking. I can tell you that the structure of it, the way [first-year offensive coordinator] Jason [Beck] has put it together, his creativity, his play calling; we’re so far — it’s only two games — exactly as we had hoped. I mean, that’s why we hired Jason, what, a year ago, or whatever it was, eight months ago.”
“We watched his tape extensively. We had a good feel for what his scheme was, and what his philosophies were, and he’s brought those here and implemented them. You’re seeing a lot of the same results that he got last year [with New Mexico].”
“They’re still a work in progress. [Ryan] Davis, he had a really nice game today; caught what, seven balls. And Tobias had six. Smith Snowden, what he adds — he didn’t add nearly as much this week as last week, but he only played a half the game on offense.”
“The receiver position in and of itself, is a work in progress. We’ve got about four guys right now — five guys that we really have trust in, and we’re waiting for another guy or two to join that group.”
“A couple linemen got a little dinged up, but we held [Jaren] Kump out today for precautionary reasons, as well as Logan Fano. Rabbit [Evans] is still not quite ready, but hopefully we get all those guys back for this week. We’ll see what happens.”
