SALT LAKE CITY — It’s rivalry week in the state of Utah. The big game is back, and Utah and BYU fans are in full swing, taking jabs at one another and making predictions for Saturday’s game.
Does it matter that this might be the least important meeting the two schools have ever had on the football field?
Let me explain.
This will be the 97th meeting between the two teams, between 1922, and 2010, each game the two teams played against one another had conference standing implications, with the exception of a three-year span in the mid-40s when World War II prevented the game from being played.