College: The University of Utah
Year: 2014
Game: Oregon 51 Utah 27
Rating: 7
Cost Index: Moderate
Tickets: Moderate
Cost Index: Moderate
Tickets: Moderate
Stadium: Rice Eccles Stadium
If you are looking for a small, clean and modern city you could do a lot worse than Salt Lake. I took my wife here and it was perfect spot and kept both of us entertained. Salt Lake is easy to navigate, it has great public transportation and it's a pretty laid back scene. We found pretty good food and a couple of brew pubs, it was a nice weekend.
The University of Utah is not far from downtown, it's built up the mountainside over looking the Salt Lake valley. If you do go here for a game you are most likely going to hang out downtown as there aren't many bars near campus (it's a dry campus, the drinking culture is not the same as other large state schools).
Rice-Eccles fits right in with the rest of Utah's campus. It's a clean, modern design. The stadium was built for the 2002 Olympics on the same site as the old Rice stadium. Both the opening and closing ceremonies were held there.
As far as the game: we got there about 30 minutes before kick off. It's about a 15 minute ride from downtown to the stadium on Utah Trax with a train stop right in front. We didn't get a chance to check out the tail gate, I know from talking to people there is a tailgate lot further up the hill from the stadium. My guess is that it's a decent tail gate but nothing to challenge the SEC.
This game will be remembered for the "fumble" at the goal line that turned into a 14 point swing for Oregon (see vid below). We had standing room seats but by a stroke of luck we were about 30 feet from the fumble when it happened, I noticed immediately that the refs did not signal a TD. The Utah bumble took the wind out of the stadium (Utah is pretty loud, not the loudest I've ever been too but close, especially considering it only seats about 48k) and stopped all of Utah's momentum.
Oregon was the better team overall and probably would've come back to win even if Utah goes up 14-0...but we'll never know what would have happened. Utah has a very good defense, they gave Oregon problems for the first three quarters. Oregon ended up pulling away at the end but this game was much closer than the final score indicates.
f you want to make it part of a larger trip: BYU, Utah State
If you are looking for a small, clean and modern city you could do a lot worse than Salt Lake. I took my wife here and it was perfect spot and kept both of us entertained. Salt Lake is easy to navigate, it has great public transportation and it's a pretty laid back scene. We found pretty good food and a couple of brew pubs, it was a nice weekend.
The University of Utah is not far from downtown, it's built up the mountainside over looking the Salt Lake valley. If you do go here for a game you are most likely going to hang out downtown as there aren't many bars near campus (it's a dry campus, the drinking culture is not the same as other large state schools).
Rice-Eccles fits right in with the rest of Utah's campus. It's a clean, modern design. The stadium was built for the 2002 Olympics on the same site as the old Rice stadium. Both the opening and closing ceremonies were held there.
As far as the game: we got there about 30 minutes before kick off. It's about a 15 minute ride from downtown to the stadium on Utah Trax with a train stop right in front. We didn't get a chance to check out the tail gate, I know from talking to people there is a tailgate lot further up the hill from the stadium. My guess is that it's a decent tail gate but nothing to challenge the SEC.
This game will be remembered for the "fumble" at the goal line that turned into a 14 point swing for Oregon (see vid below). We had standing room seats but by a stroke of luck we were about 30 feet from the fumble when it happened, I noticed immediately that the refs did not signal a TD. The Utah bumble took the wind out of the stadium (Utah is pretty loud, not the loudest I've ever been too but close, especially considering it only seats about 48k) and stopped all of Utah's momentum.
Oregon was the better team overall and probably would've come back to win even if Utah goes up 14-0...but we'll never know what would have happened. Utah has a very good defense, they gave Oregon problems for the first three quarters. Oregon ended up pulling away at the end but this game was much closer than the final score indicates.
f you want to make it part of a larger trip: BYU, Utah State
Don't Miss: Downtown Salt Lake
Avoid: Ogden and Provo
Avoid: Ogden and Provo
Attendees: Bones, Wife of Bones
Game Recap: http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=400548304
We were about 30 feet from this play:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11844727
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We were about 30 feet from this play:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11844727
