When Utah’s football schedule was released showing Utah as host to Michigan in the second game of a home-and-home two seasons ago, it sparked concern as to why the organization would discontinue the tradition of playing in-state rival BYU. But Utah athletics director Chris Hill has plans in motion to not only play the Cougars starting next season, but potentially several times in the future.
“I’ve talked to (BYU athletics director) Tom Holmoe on several occasions about our future scheduling,” said Hill. “We are already scheduled to meet in 2016, ’17 and ’18, and on Tom’s desk is a contract for 2019 and 2020, which we sent on July 30.