Utah played a great game. They are clearly a solid team and a worthy advesary. They called exactly the offensive gameplan that I expected from Bobo in our Bama game ... a quick up tempo passing attack. They deserve a ton of credit for going right at Bama's weakness. But I do not think they would beat a healthy USC, OU, UT, or UF. Honestly I think the level of play they brought to their bowl game would lose to a healthy Bama by two scores. The Bama OL was in complete disarray not of the Utes making. They made simple dumb mistakes like being in the wrong place and blocking the wrong player. In the end I would say that Utah is really #7 but should be given a #2 or #3 to reward their consistent performance.
#1? No way. If you let one kid chew gum in class then you have to let every kid chew gum. If you reward Utah for going undefeated with a soft schedule then you have to reward every Hawaii that goes undefeated as well.