Byu Vs Utah Football Series History, Utah And Byu Announce Changes And Additional Games To Football Series Mid Utah Radio

However the rivalry predates the old wagon wheel trophy era.

Brigham young university football stadium. From 1896 to 1899 bya and utah played each other six times with each school winning three games. The byuutah state football rivalry is an american college football rivalry between the brigham young cougars and utah state aggies. From 1922 until 1971 the utes lost to byu five times won 38 times with four ties.

Utah has won the last nine meetings in the series and has come away victories in 10 of the last 11. It is an american college football rivalry game played by the brigham young university byu cougars and university of utah utesthe game is part of the larger byuutah rivalryin this rivalry context the term holy war refers to the fact that byu is owned and administered by the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. Utah and byu also have a long history in football however the two schools disagree on exactly when the series started.

From 1972 edwards first year as head coach to 1992 utah went 219 against byu. Utah dominated the early years of the series. Winsipedia database and infographics of utah utes vs.

Byu cougars football series history and all time records national championships conference championships bowl games wins bowl record all americans heisman winners and nfl draft picks. They have met for the old wagon wheel 65 times dating back to 1948. Since 1993 utah has beaten byu 19 times and lost seven times.

Byus last victory came in an overtime win in 2009 when the two schools were still members of the mountain west conference. Byu holy war football series 1896 present utah leads series 57344. This las vegas bowl is very unique when utah takes on byu for a special post season edition of the holy war.

The rivalry series between the two schools was largely dominated in the early years by utah state until 1974. Brigham young a l l g a m e s h o m e g a m e s a w a y g a m e s overall. Outside of the hiatus over the previous two years this game has been played 95 times since 1896 and the only time the series took a break after being played annually since 1922 was during world war ii where there was no game between 1943 45.

That changed when byu hired lavell edwards as head coach. The holy war is the name given to the byuutah football rivalry. Byu asserts that the series began in 1922 but utah claims that it actually began in 1896 when byu was known as bya.

Utah utes football series history and all time records national championships conference championships bowl games wins bowl record all americans heisman winners and nfl draft picks.