Gordon Monson: Where will Utah’s Utes go from here? Not even they can be sure. Not yet.

Utah quarterback Cameron Rising reacts after scoring a two-point conversion during the second half of an NCAA college football game against UCLA in Pasadena, Calif., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. One sounds like a kind of grape grown for use in the making of a white wine, the other a slang acronym for Defining The Relationship.

Whittingham, rather optimistically, put it like this afterward: “Run defense was pretty good for the most part, it was the big plays that killed us. We’d lose a gap and whenever we lost a gap, they exploited that.”That’s where UCLA back Charbonnet played his role — churning for 198 yards, half of those coming on just two carries. He averaged nine yards per run.

Two notable mistakes by Cam Rising — a pick near the Bruins goal line early and a fumble that led to a UCLA touchdown late helped the Utes not one bit.There’s nothing more deflating for a team than that aforementioned soft run defense. If you can’t close gaps, can’t stop an opponent’s ground game, you’re all but done, and everyone on the business end of that equation knows it. The Utes were no exception.

Where this leaves the Utes with the USC Trojans coming to Rice-Eccles next week, with most of their Pac-12 schedule still ahead, is anybody’s guess, including their own. Their hopes for a return to the Rose Bowl for the Rose Bowl game in January still have breath, both bolstered and dampened by a league slate that appears more difficult now — not just for them, but for everyone — than it did prior to the season’s start.

Utah still controls its destiny. My gut feeling tells me that they will take USC down next week at home.

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