What has been your favorite rivalry game of your lifetime?

[Ted Lasso]

Mine has to be 2006, Beck to Harline. While the game itself was awesome, it was also the last BYU Utah game I got to watch with my brother before he passed away. I just remember we were screaming and going nuts in our house during that final play. This week marks 17 years since his passing, so it would be pretty awesome to see BYU win another on the road this week.

What are some of your best memories watching the rivalry?

[utefansince79]

Heartbreaker for the Utes, but one of the most exciting games I’ve ever attended. BYU was favored in that game and I left proud of the Utes for their effort.

My favorite will always be 34-31 in Provo in 1993. Every BYU fan around us was laughing saying Chris Yergensen (who had already missed a few kicks including a PAT) would miss by a mile, but then he found the target. Stunned silence in Cougar stadium except for a few Ute fans going crazy.

[lgt4141]

Memories like that with loved ones make the rivalry and games fun.

54-10 was one of my favorites. I was newlywed and went to the game with my wife and in laws. My in laws are big BYU fans. My father in law did work for BYU and got free tickets to the game. He told I could cheer for Utah but couldn’t wear red. Needless to say in that game I cheered a lot.

To my father n laws credit I have watched a lot of Utah games with him where he has cheered for Utah.

[NarfUte]

2008, 2004, 54-10, then Vegas bowl probably in that order

[UteFan Vineyard]

Some that stand out:

– 57-28 in 1988. It was tough being a Utes fan in the 80s, and that game was definitely a highlight

– Chris Yergensen’s 55-yard FG. (1993?) I was there in Provo for that one.

– 2004: Fun way to end the perfect regular season with a blowout win. I was there in person at RES.

– 2008: Another fun way to end a perfect regular season with a blowout win. I was there in person at RES.

– 2005: Bret Ratliff. I was there in Provo for that one.

[Matt]

I loved the games from 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1983. 27-0, 56-6, 56-28, 56-7. Some of those Ute teams were not bad like 81. We dominated even in crappy seasons like 1986.

For the last 25 years or so of close games I enjoyed the 1998 doink game, 2000 Lavell’s last game, 2001 Luke Staley down the sideline, 2006 beck to harline, 2007 Austin Colie ‘you live right on and off the field, magic happens’, 2009 OT win.

Lots of heartbreaking losses too like 2016 where we went for 2 with Taysom, and 2018 where we blew a 27-7 early 4th qtr lead.

[AZUTE]

55 yard Yerg FG in Provo. Why?? I had avoided the game all day and when my girlfriend and I went to her friends house to visit her dad was watching the game and I walked in just as Utah was lining up to kick it. It went through and I was jumping and yelling and cheering. What I didn’t know was the dad of her friend was a byu fan. Made it extra sweet when I found out

[UteBacker]

Win or lose, I can’t put this game in the rear view mirror fast enough. I know I’m in the minority here.

[2008 National Champ]

It’s a minority I’m proud to be a part of

[Tony (admin)]

Agree. I much prefer not playing them. The last 10 years or so has been so great. I completely blocked them out of my mind.

[2008 National Champ]

It’s not the team I mind. It’s all the other crap involved with playing them. If they’re having a great season, good for them. But I don’t want Utah to beat them any more or less than any other team on the schedule.

For me it goes back to when I was a kid. I grew up in a town of about 60k with 2 high schools. I played sports all my life so I had played with and against darned near everyone from the other school. I dated girls from the other school, had plenty of friends that went there. But for some idiotic reason I could never understand, I was supposed to HATE people that I had tons in common with because their parents bought a house in a different section of town than I lived?

[belli1976]

2003 3-0 snow bowl. I was in Cougar Stadium with a girlfriend that went to BYU. First time BYU was shut out in 28 years.

Every time I cheered there was a little girl that would turned and glare at me like I was the spawn of satan.

The score could have been 10-0. But Urban decided to take a knee on the 2 yard line with a few seconds left.

Second favorite was the 2012 two missed fields goals for the win for BYU. The Muss rushed the field 3 times. First for an incomplete pass but there was still a second on the clock. Second, they rushed the field on missed field goal but got a penalty. Then after the second missed but this time no penalty.

[uteof]

Years of Utah v. Utah State on thanksgiving.

[Central Coast Ute]

The 2018 game where Jason Shelley led a come from behind victory and leaped over a byu defender. It was sweet to watch the byu fans get let down so hard when they thought they could finally win. The Cougarboard melt down and excuses were even better.

[cj13]

2024. Backs were against the wall and Brandon Rose leads us to 21-13 win killing BYU’s hopes and dreams. BYU ends up shutting down its athletics and Jay Hill comes back to Utah because of it

[SteelUte]

The past twenty years have pretty much been golden-
Brandon Burton block, fans rushing the field 3 times, Jake Heaps turnovers, Vegas bowl (“i feel bad for my Mormon friends because they can’t drink”) Brent Musburger,
Bronco Mendenhall almost chasing down a suspenders wearing Utah fan after the game, Utah cheerleader beating the bleep out of a stupid Y fan, stuffing Taysom Hill on the goal line. Here’s to hoping for some more magic!

[thirtyfour-thirtyone]

The years in the 90’s when we had a pretty good team, but always lost too many WTF games to really be in the national conversion, but we finally started beating the zoobs with some regularity. 1993-1995 were great, but abusing Kevin Feterik at their place, with Darnel Arceneaux coming off the bench to lead the offense was probably my favorite of those (1997, I think?). 2004 and 2008 were special for reasons having nothing to do with the rivalry.

Here’s to another good one this weekend!

[utefansince79]

IF Utah had lived up to expectations and came in with just one or zero losses) against an undefeated BYU team, what an epic matchup this could have been Saturday. (Thinking back to 1994 where both teams finished high in the rankings and Utah won after Cal Beck ran back a KO return deep into Cougar territory to get up the winning score).

Have to wait see what happens tomorrow. Hopefully Utah brings a great effort or this this one might be rather ugly (to Utah fans anyway)

[Jim Vanderhoof]

I’m taking a different angle on my favorite rivalry moment. I was a student in the early seventies sitting in the student section for the rivalry game. They had dominated us and we had no chance of winning.

The teams had warmed up before the game and were heading back to the locker room before coming back out. A BYU player took his helmet off and came over right in front of the student section and started taunting us and pointed to his privates. It had snowed the night before so there was snow in the bleachers. I was about 2/3 of the way up the bleachers. I took a snowball and hit him right in the forehead. We got killed in the game but I shut one of them up at least for second. The player was Todd Christiansen. Living through the 70s-80s rivalry was pure hell.

[SteelUte]

Fans throwing things at players is unacceptable behavior, but for Todd Christiansen I think it’s ok. ✅

[Jim Vanderhoof]

I never thought I would do that either. Maybe it was the fact he went out of his way to taunt at our house and I didn’t mention he was yelling “Blow me” when pointing at his privates. New poll was I wrong?

[WasatchRanger]

2012. The sound of the *doink* when BYU hit the upright on that last field goal was incredible. Very stressful final few minutes, but so fun.

And no, I did not storm the field early!

[Jesse]

I’m still trying to get warm from the 2003 game. My sister and I bought tickets off of ebay from some TDS student. We froze, but loved it.

I sat in the student section for the 1988 beatdown. TDS had no answer. I remember when the white practice bubble was a great upgrade. My friends and I would buy a $5 GA ticket and sit on those old wood bleachers in the North Endzone.

[utefansince79]

Sat through two doinks over the years. First was Kenashiro (for Utah) damned good kicker but had horrible timing on the few kicks he missed (in San Diego in OT and in Rice-Eccles against BYU. Other was the 2012 one (students rushed the field 3 times)

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