BOULDER — Colorado football coach Mike MacIntyre has developed a simple criteria for what he believes constitutes a rivalry game.
“I’ve always said it’s a rivalry when we start beating them,” MacIntyre said ahead of No. 9 Colorado’s high-stakes game Saturday night against No. 21 Utah at Folsom Field. “We haven’t beat them yet. Hopefully we’ll beat them this week. Right now, they’ve beat us up pretty good every time we’ve played them.”
Yes, MacIntyre has lost each of his three games against the school that entered the Pac-12 at the same time Colorado did in 2011.