page_title: Utah Utes football
section_title: Bowl games
hierarchical_section_title: Utah Utes football / Bowl games
caption_attribution_description: The U.S. Naval Academy and University of Utah football teams compete in the annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl at Qualcom Stadium. More than 1200 midshipman traveled from the East Coast to show support for their team, who played strong until, but were defeated by the Utes, 37-35. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Sean Patrick Lenahan (Released)
context_page_description: The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that competes in the Pac-12 Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I and represents the University of Utah. The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at the current site of Rice-Eccles Stadium since 1927. They have won 24 conference championships in five conferences during their history, and, as of the end of the 2018 season, they have a cumulative record of 677 wins, 464 losses, and 31 ties.
  The Utes have a record of 17–6 in major bowl games. Among Utah's bowl appearances are two games from the Bowl Championship Series: the Fiesta Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. In the 2005 Fiesta Bowl, Utah defeated the Pittsburgh Panthers 35–7, and in the 2009 Sugar Bowl, they defeated the Alabama Crimson Tide 31–17. During those seasons, Utah was a member of the Mountain West Conference, whose champion does not receive an automatic invitation to a BCS bowl. The Utes were the first team from a conference without an automatic bid to play in a BCS bowl game—colloquially known as being a BCS Buster—and the first BCS Buster to play in a second BCS Bowl.
context_section_description: The Utah Utes have played in 23 NCAA sanctioned major bowl games with a record of 17–6 (.739) through the 2019 season. Additionally, the Utes as played in the 1947 Pineapple Bowl, which was not sanctioned by NCAA as a bowl game.
  † The NCAA did not sanction the 1947 Pineapple Bowl and counts as a regular season game in official NCAA statistics.
caption: Utah gets set to defend Navy during the 2007 Poinsettia Bowl
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