The 2008 Utah Utes football team represented the University of Utah in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team, coached by 4th year head football coach Kyle Whittingham, plays its home games in Rice–Eccles Stadium. Utah was one of only two teams in the top-level Division I FBS to finish the regular season undefeated (the other being the Boise State Broncos), but after the Broncos were defeated by TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl and Utah won the Sugar Bowl over Alabama, the Utes finished as the nation's only undefeated team.
For their efforts, Utah claimed the nations longest active win streak at 14 wins and the nations longest active bowl win streak at 8 wins. In addition to winning the Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year Award head coach Kyle Whittingham also received 2 national coach of the year awards, the AFCA National Coach of the Year Award and the Paul "Bear" Bryant Award.
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