After Utah’s euphoric 21-13 win over No. 14 Houston, coach Morgan Scalley was a bit emotional as he started his postgame press conference.
“A reminder: it’s hard to win in college football. So grateful for our guys, their fight, and that’s what you need. I don’t really care about the stats. I’m so proud of these guys, just their fight. Devon Dampier, he’s our guy and so proud of his fight in the second half and the defense came up with stop after stop. Colton Swan, great game plan,” Scalley said.
Just minutes removed from the defining win of his young head coaching career in front of a raucous, black-clad sellout crowd at Rice-Eccles Stadium that did its part to force a number of false-start penalties, Scalley was enjoying this win…