The first time football coaches Chip Kelly and Kyle Whittingham opposed each other, Oregon ended a Utah winning streak that included a victory in the Sugar Bowl.
The rematch will occur nine years later at the Rose Bowl, and may help determine whether the Utes play in the Rose Bowl.
There's a distinction between the stadium itself and the iconic New Year's Day event staged there. Utah will take its three-game winning streak into Friday's game, and a case could be made that building on the program's current success is more important than extending the 16-game run that Whittingham took to Oregon in September 2009.