BYU’s historical schedules on its official website don’t go further back than 1922, shortly after the program was brought back following a two-decade absence. Utah, however, lists the rivalry’s first meeting as being in 1896, when the Utes defeated what was then known as Brigham Young Academy 12-4 and 6-0 in their two matchups.

I grew up in Murray, at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon and about ten miles south of the University of Utah.

College football is a sport defined by part by its rivalries. This weekend, one of the sport’s more intense series will take place when No. 9 BYU and Utah meet in what’s commonly referred to as “the Holy War.