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Show The U n i v e r s i t y o fUtah's I n d e p e n d e n t S t u d e n t Voice Since 1890 THE GAME GUIDE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Wednesday, October 4,2006 ©2006 www.dailyutahchronicle.com Vol. 116 No. 52 Inside Quote of the day News A&E Opinion Page i Page 5 Page 7 Political action Strolling down mean streets Tacit rules, part deux Local politicians recruit U students to work in campaign management. Ignore the above pun; ran to your nearest cinematorium and feast thine eyes upon Martin Scorsese's "The Departed." Matt Patton explains how to respect the sanctity of the male rcstroom. among other things. Weather "Rather than complying with customary acts of courtesy, the person decided it would be all right for him to strut his stuff wherever he pleased wearing nothing but a smile." .„ ,, _ ,. b fa -Matt Patton on unspoken societal laws SEE FULL COLUMN PAGE 7. 70/56 Showers CITES HORNED FROGS UTE FOOTBALL THE « TCU UTAH Can the Utes rebound with just a few days' rest? THURSDAY, OCT. 5 7 p.m. <f> RICE-ECCLES STADIUM While both Utah and TCU fell last week, the Frogs lost on Thursday night, giving them an extra two days to recover physically and emotionally. The Utes, TV VERSUS RADIO700 THE ZONE : . •; - X FACTOR: on the other hand, played on Saturday against an extremely physical Boise State. Will they be able to overcome all that and pull the upset over the Frogs? Utes to lock horns with TCU Chris Bellamy Chronicle Sports Editor : It was supposed to be a grudgematch between two Mountain West Conference heavyweights. Two teams with national acclaim, riding modest winning streaks and looking to stake their claims to the national top-25. That's what the Utah/TCU showdown was supposed to be before both teams suffered embarrassing losses on their home fields, removing some of the luster from Thursday's meeting at Rice-Eccles Stadium. Just two days after MWC foe BYU throttled the Horned Frogs in Fort Worth, Boise State made mincemeat of the Utes Saturday afternoon. Now, both teams have to regroup—and quick. Should TCU drop a second-straight conference game, its chances of the MWC crown will be all but shot. Should the Frogs prevail, Utah would be a mediocre 3-3—just like it was at the halfway point last year. "What we have to do now is put this behind us," U head coach Kyle Whittingham said. "(Boise State) is a non-conference game. You don't want to downplay it like it never happened. But the point is that we've got seven conference games in.a row ahead of us. So we have to refocus ourselves, correct the errors and deficiencies that were there on Saturday." Those deficiencies included a passing offense that netted just 51 total yards and a defense that yielded nearly 400 yards of offense for the Broncos—not exactly a prime way to precede the arguably biggest conference game of the season. While it may be difficult, players say they have to forget about the loss to Boise State as soon as possible. "We've just got to regroup," senior • Eric Weddle said. "Everyone goes through tough losses...spirits are high." While the Utes are quick to point out that the losses to both Boise State and UCLA have no bearing on the team's goal of winning the Mountain West Conference, in resuming their conference slate they are at another considerable disadvantage: They have had two fewer days to re,\ cover from the physical Bron- has had a whole week to get ready, having played BYU last Thursday. "Of course you'd like more time to recover, but we have a short week and there's ^ ^ . nothing ^ you can do about it," defensive end Alex Pucci- nelli said. "You always want to get some more days in there, get your body relaxed, but that's football— you've got to adapt to it." The Horned Frogs not only represent one of the Utes' toughest competitors for MWC supremacy, but Thursday's game is also the first of seven conference games hi a row—the bulk of the schedule. After TCU, the team goes back on the road for consecutive games against Wyoming and then New Mexico, See U T E S Game Guide 4 |