Utes in action in basketball and football today

The Utah Utes will play in both basketball and football today. First, the basketball team (2-0) hosts Weber State (1-1) at 4 p.m. MT. That game will unfortunately not be on television, but will be on the radio in the Salt Lake City area on AM 700 and can also be heard online at kall700sports.com. Same radio information for the football game where the #25 Utes (8-2, 5-1 MWC) are at San Diego State (7-3, 4-2 MWC) at 8 p.m. MT. That game will be on TV and will be broadcast on the Mtn.

I've been encouraged by the play of the basketball team to this point in wins over Grand Canyon and Montana, but I think today's game will provide the stiffest challenge they have faced all season. Weber State was picked ahead of Montana in the Big Sky Conference and beat the Runnin' Utes last season in Ogden. However, the new mix of Utah players has looked pretty good so far and I think the Runnin' Utes will remain undefeated with a win over Weber State today.

The football team I am less encouraged by. At the very least it is safe to say that momentum is not on their side. They fell at home two weeks ago to TCU 47-7 and last week at Notre Dame 28-3. Both games were in the national spotlight and both games resulted in embarrassing losses. San Diego State has had a very solid season and only lost by five at TCU (which is still undefeated) last week. In fact, their three losses this year have come by one possession in each of them. They are unbeaten this year at home. I think San Diego State will be looking at this game as an opportunity to get a signature win for their program and I think they will win the game by a touchdown.

In order for Utah to stop this losing skid, the offense really needs to get in gear. Jordan Wynn has looked absolutely terrible at quarterback the last two weeks. He looks to me as though he has lost all self confidence, misfiring on even the most routine of throws. Word is he will get the start tonight despite his performance the last two weeks and I think if that is the case he needs to have a very short leash. If Wynn doesn't start out well tonight, the Utes have to go to back-up Terrance Cain in order to salvage a good finish to their season that started with such promise.

I will be at the basketball game against Weber State and watching the football game against San Diego State. I'll be on Twitter with updates from both of those games, you can follow me at twitter.com/dpaysports. After the games I will be back on here with my thoughts and analysis. Go Utes!