Depth, defense, domination. Two-time defending Pac-12 champs show rivals — and nation? — that they're not going anywhere.
Barnes, who came off the bench in the Rose Bowl to replace Rising in January, started and set the tone from the very snap, throwing a 70 yard bomb to the appropriately named. The former walk-on trailed off some after that initial toss, but he was still sharp enough the rest of the way in dissecting an SEC defense that featured a half dozen blue-chip recruits, winding up with 159 yards on 12-of-18 passing while finding the end zone through both the air and on the ground.
And when paired with the normally stout defense that Whittingham has fielded nearly annually for the past few decades, Utah certainly sent a loud opening message to the rest of their imploding conference — and perhaps the rest of the country — that things out West still run through the Wasatch Front until proven otherwise.
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