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University of Utah football’s new offensive coordinator Jason Beck talks with media in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, as winter workouts begin. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
The success of Utah’s 2025 season rests, in large part, on the shoulders of the Utes’ offense and new offensive coordinator Jason Beck.
Under defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley, the Utes’ defense has largely been good-to-elite, often ranking near the top of the conference. During the past two seasons, it’s been the offense underperforming in the absence of quarterback Cam Rising that has been the crux of the issue, leading to an 8-5 season in 2023 and a 5-7 campaign in 2024.
Since the end of a season that saw the Utes lose seven consecutive games — the longest losing streak of the Kyle Whittingham era — there’s been a massive offensive overhaul.
New Mexico’s Jason Beck was hired as the school’s new offensive coordinator — Utah’s first since 2019 — after Andy Ludwig resigned midseason, and he stepped into a whirlwind couple of weeks with the transfer portal.
Every single scholarship running back from the 2024 roster either graduated or entered the transfer portal, and the Utes picked up two new transfer quarterbacks (New Mexico’s Devon Dampier and Oklahoma’s Brendan Zurbrugg) and three new wide receivers (Utah State’s Otto Tia, New Mexico’s Ryan Davis and Mississippi State’s Creed Whittemore).
There’s little doubt that Utah’s offense in 2025 will look different than it did over the past two years, and should — at the very least — be more exciting to watch.
While it’s hard to get worse than some of the performances from last season, time will tell if the Utes can complete an offensive U-turn in an offseason.
Utah’s offense in 2025
As a result of all the changes, there’s a high level of…
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Publish date : 2025-01-16 03:33:00
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