The 2021 Utah Utes football team represented the
University of Utah
The University of Utah (the U, U of U, or simply Utah) is a public university, public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. It was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret (Book of Mormon), Deseret by the General A ...
during the
2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season
The 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season was the 152nd season of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at its highest level of competition, the Football Bowl Subdivision. The ...
. The Utes were led by 17th-year head coach
Kyle Whittingham
Kyle David Whittingham (born November 21, 1959) is an American college football coach and former player. He currently serves as the head football coach at the University of Utah, a position he has held since 2005, and he is the all-time leader ...
and played their home games at
Rice–Eccles Stadium in
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City, often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC, is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. It is the county seat of Salt Lake County, the most populous county in the state. The city is the core of the Salt Lake Ci ...
as members of the South Division of the
Pac-12 Conference
The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference in the Western United States. It participates at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I, Division I level for all sports, and its Co ...
. Despite a rough start to the season and the death of players
Ty Jordan and Aaron Lowe, the Utes rallied and won their first Pac-12 championship since joining the conference in 2011, defeating the tenth-ranked
Oregon Ducks
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, 38–10, in the
conference championship game. The Utes completed their season with their first ever appearance in the
Rose Bowl, where they lost to
Ohio State
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.
Schedule
Rankings
Personnel
Game summaries
No. 6 (FCS) Weber State
At BYU
At San Diego State
Washington State
At USC
No. 18 Arizona State
At Oregon State
UCLA
At Stanford
At Arizona
No. 3 Oregon
Colorado
Vs. No. 10 Oregon (Pac-12 Championship game)
Vs. No. 6 Ohio State (Rose Bowl)
Awards and honors
* September 7, 2021 –
Devin Lloyd, Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week
References
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Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...
Utah Utes football seasons
Pac-12 Conference football champion seasons
Utah Football
2020s in Salt Lake City