The 2023 Southern Utah Thunderbirds football team represented

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in the

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(UAC) during the

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. Led by second-year head coach

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, the Thunderbirds played their games at

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. After the 2022 season, the WAC and the

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, which had partnered in a football-only alliance in the 2021 and 2022 seasons, fully merged their football leagues, creating what eventually became the United Athletic Conference.

Schedule

Game summaries

at Arizona State

References

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Southern Utah Thunderbirds football seasons

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