Gordon Monson: The manufactured rivalry between Utah_Football and CUBuffsFootball never meant much on either side of the Rockies. Will things be different in the Big 12 with Colorado and BYUfootball?
Colorado coach Deion Sanders, left, leads longtime supporter Peggy Coppom to kick the football before the team's spring practice NCAA college football game April 22, 2023, in Boulder, Colo. With the Buffaloes move back to the Big 12 in 2024, can the Cougs and CU create a real Rocky Mountain rivalry?BYU is about to be sold the bill of goods Utah was sold some 12 years ago.That’s right, BYU versus the Buffs, the Cougars versus Colorado, the Battle for the Top of the Rockies.
As it turned out, while the Utes celebrated, BYU spun away from the Mountain West, heading into the challenging and foggy world of independence. And even as some Utah fans took great satisfaction in reminding the Cougars that they were unimportant to the Utes’ now-altered, now-elevated goals, they still lacked what every college team and fanbase craves — a hated opponent, an opponent against whom even the thought of losing stirs headache, heartache, and every manner of bodily dysfunction.
That victory ended the Buffs’ school-record 23-game road losing streak, and that general state of ineptitude was what dampened what might have otherwise developed. Instead, Utah fans, right from jump, looked at any kind of loss to Colorado as a monumental, self-inflicted failure, not as a reason to get mad at the other guys.
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