How Utah football’s nonconference scheduling stacks up in the Pac-12

By Ryan McDonald, Deseret News: Despite its high level of consistency for a long time now — 14 bowl game appearances under head coach Kyle Whittingham with an 11-3 record — a knock on the Utah Utes football program has been that it has hardly ever played fellow Power Five opponents during nonconference play since it joined the Pac-12 in 2011.

That’s not just narrative, as the Utes have only played three nonconference games against Power Five opponents in the last nine years — they faced the Pittsburgh Panthers in 2011 (the second game of a two-year series) and the Michigan Wolverines in 2014 and 2015.

How Utah football’s nonconference scheduling stacks up in the Pac-12

The Utes on Monday announced a series against the Wisconsin Badgers, bringing the total of nonconference Power Five games on their schedule to 10.

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