Joe Williams carries Utah past Colorado

SALT LAKE CITY -- A regular season full of promise ended with a sloppy, unimpressive win for Utah against a struggling Colorado program. The Utes (No. 23 CFP) won 20-14 Saturday, but thoughts still centered on what could have been. The win Saturday gave the Utes (9-3, 6-3) their best Pac-12 finish since joining the league in 2011, but there was still a feeling of emptiness after a 6-0 start and a No. 3 ranking just over a month ago. The six wins will tie for the most in the Pac-12 South, but Utah lost tiebreakers to both USC and UCLA. "The first six weeks the emotions were very good, you know everyone was excited, then we had a setback against USC," Utah coach Kyle Whittingham said.