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2004 Utah Utes football team
American college football season
American college football season
Field
Value
mode
football
year
2004
team
Utah Utes
image
Utah Utes - U logo.svg
image_size
120
conference
Mountain West Conference
short_conf
MW
CoachRank
5
APRank
4
BCSRank
record
12–0
conf_record
7–0
head_coach
Urban Meyer
hc_year
2nd
off_coach
Mike Sanford
oc_year
2nd
off_scheme
Spread option
def_coach
Kyle Whittingham
dc_year
10th
def_scheme
[4–3](4-3-defense)
stadium
Rice-Eccles Stadium
champion
Mountain West champion
Fiesta Bowl champion
bowl
[Fiesta Bowl](2005-fiesta-bowl)
bowl_result
W 35–7 vs. [Pittsburgh](2004-pittsburgh-panthers-football-team)
Fiesta Bowl champion
The 2004 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah in the 2004 NCAA Division I-A football season. This team was the original 'BCS Buster', meaning, this was the first time that a team from a BCS non-AQ conference was invited to play in one of the BCS bowl games. The team, coached by second-year head football coach Urban Meyer, played its home games in Rice-Eccles Stadium.
Utah finished the season 12–0, the fourth undefeated and untied season in school history. The Utes were one of three teams in the top-level Division I FBS to finish the season undefeated (the others being the USC Trojans and the Auburn Tigers.)
Utah was the highest-ranked BCS non-AQ team in each poll every week of the season.
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Urban Meyer: The Home Depot Coach of the Year Award, Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year, Woody Hayes' National Coach of the Year, Maxwell George Munger Award
Alex Smith: Heisman Trophy finalist (fourth place), The Sporting News National Player of the Year, Sports Illustrated National Player of the Year, Cingular Sports/ABC Sports All-American, SI.com All-American (first team), CoSIDA Football Academic All-American of the Year, Davey O'Brien Award finalist, Walter Camp Award finalist
Chris Kemoeatu: Cingular Sports/ABC Sports All-American, SI.com All-American (first team)
Morgan Scalley: SI.com All-American (second team), CoSIDA Academic All-American (first team), Anson Mount Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Bronko Nagurski National Player of the Week, Pat Tillman Award (East–West Shrine Game honor)
Steve Savoy: SI.com All-American (second team), The Sporting News All-American (honorable mention)
Ryan Smith: The Sporting News Freshman All-American (second team)
Spencer Toone: CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII first team
Conference
Coach of the Year: Urban Meyer
Offensive Player of the Year: Alex Smith
Co-defensive Player of the Year: Morgan Scalley
All-MWC First team: Alex Smith, Steve Savoy, Chris Kemoeatu, Steve Fifita, Sione Pouha, Morgan Scalley
All-MWC Second team: Paris Warren, Marty Johnson, Jesse Boone, Eric Weddle
All-MWC Honorable mention: Makai Aalona, Quinton Ganther, Tommy Hackenbruck, Matt Kovacevich, Spencer Toone
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