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Utah Monson: BYU & Utah football tethered, regardless of whatever pulls them apart
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Entire generations of sports fans here had and have looked forward to that game, the mixing of the red and the blue on the green expanse, not just to see who was and is the better of the two in that given year, but rather to have the privilege of holding that inferiority or superiority over the heads of the other folks.
While that privilege at times had or has blown past the boundaries of common sense…it is mostly a healthy exercise in rivalry that makes any season a whole lot more interesting.
I’m on the record, always have been, that the two headlining college football teams in Utah should play each other as often as possible. I get it, they no longer must meet up, there is no conference title on the line, there’s other business for these programs to concern themselves with.
All you have to do is look at the interest created by the BYU-Utah game, feel the emotion stirred in your place of employment or your church or your grocery store or, as mentioned, around your own dinner table. It’s not just the media that benefits from the game, it’s everyone in Utah that cares about sports.
It’s been said those thousands of times, and it should go on being said: The Utah-BYU game should not only be preserved, it should be honored and revered. Come what may in the ever-evolving landscape of college football, regardless of what conference calls what school its own, BYU and Utah will always be a mere 45 miles apart. Their fans will always live next door to each other, will always be friends every other week of the year, will always talk smack at each other.
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