Re: BYU.

I think Colorado loses at the Coliseum and @Stanford. They also have to come to Salt Lake so it might not be so huge.  Utah probably loses a game, UCLA has me worried.

EDIT:
This Colorado teams is reminding me of 2014 Utes can’t sustain the whole season.

I think it will take more than one meaningful game to create a rivalry.  The geographic barriers between Utah and Colorado are significant and decrease interactions between fans.  There is very little distance between many of the real rivalry schools. (USC-UCLA, Stanford-Cal, Oregon-OSU, ASU-Arizona)  I think that opposite sides of the state have an influence on the Washington WSU game.  I am not sure that Utah and Colorado have enough interaction as fan bases to build it into much unless we have several important games.  It will take time.

I hope that we can begin to break from BYU, but as a Mormon, I know that my cheering for Utah will always have detractors just based on going to Church with so many BYU alumni.  I think that BYU will also need to create some kind of rivalry.  The constant interaction between BYU and Utah fans will continue to simmer unless the heat is moved elsewhere for both teams.

I would like to see us to continue to take breaks from the BYU game every couple of years and have BYU – Utah State continue to play every year.  These teams actually are more closely aligned in team strength and they have had a good back and forth over the last couple of years.  A couple of year breaks while this continues to simmer will help pull the heat away from that side as well.  Then I hope we will be able to break away from the rivalry.

I think the Colorado-Utah game will develop into a rivalry. Both fan bases already have discussions of this nature which helps. We play at the end of the year every year which is usually an important and emotional time when a lot of other traditional rivalries are played. What mainly needs to happen is for both schools to be good at the same time and to be competing for a PAC-12 championship. Colorado could play spoiler this year to Utahs Pac12 title hopes.

There are many rivalries that feature teams in different states, some even multiple states away (USC/Notre Dame). Hell, Colorados old rival is Nebraska.

That being said I don’t see it being like the BYU rivalry, ever. The BYU rivalry won’t go away until we stop playing them. It doesn’t matter how badly we beat them or for how long. Rivalries endure things like that unfortunately.

I think we will have a legit rivalry with Colorado. It hasn’t happened yet because they have been so bad for so long that it would be hard for their fanbase to be really emotionally invested, which is obviously needed in a rivalry.

Fast forward 10 years and I bet we have a good rivalry going with CU.

As for the zoobs, I would absolutely love it if we never played them again and just put them in the rear view entirely. We gain nothing by beating them, and every game is extremely nerve racking because if they beat us we would never hear the end of it. If byu wins once out of every 5 games, THEY will be the happy ones. How messed up is that?!

The only other school that has a chance at a level of tds/Utah is USC. The day that happens, watch out college football, Utah’s playing for championships.

Personally I think the tds game is bad for Utah. The Utes need to move on from it and use that OOC game strictly for recruiting hotbed areas.

I agree it’s gonna take us beating someone in November to prevent a shot at a championship and we win instead to create true rivalries. It will come with time. It’s inevitable.
As for BYU – It really sank in a few weeks ago how far that game has fallen for me. As the win I didn’t feel joy, I did enjoy knowing I wouldn’t have to hear about it, but I didn’t feel any pride, or even relief. Every P12 game on the otherhand is much more exciting and meaningful. Seriously ANY & EVERY P12 victory >>> TDS victory. Also any other P5 victory >>>> Than  any TDS victory.
The real reason I want the rivalry to end is that it prevents us from playing other P5 schools OOC. Until we stop scheduling them or the “rivalry” become so lopsided our AD sees it as a “B” game, or he decides that we’ll schedule 2 “P5” opponents and leave the money of a 7th home game on the table our OOC schedule will suck, and I hate that.

Beating them doesn’t do a thing for me. If we lost it would be a colossal disappointment and embarrassment though. It’s a lose-lose IMHO.

I went to Boulder in 2014 with my best friend and we took our wives.  We all had a wonderful time.  The campus is absolutely beautiful and the CU fans were all very welcoming.  We are going back this year for a fun-filled weekend.  We’ll go to the Nuggets vs. OKC game on 11/25, Utes vs. Buffs on 11/26, and Broncos vs. Chiefs on 11/27.  Hoping it will be epic… Go UTES!

Great idea a trophy of some kind. University Presidents should be involved. Anything to strengthen the rivalry and diminish the rivalry with insignificant TDS.

Soo, Indians attacking Buffalo or a marijuana leaf effigy?