Utah vs. BYU Holy War: Ranked Teams Clash in Provo

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00:00the holy war utah byu in provo interesting game utah the utah the the road favorite in this one

00:10with byu being a home dog first time these teams are ranked this this rivalry bend has swung back

00:16and forth there's been stretches where each team has dominated um kind of how do you see this thing

00:22going and do you think byu if they beat utah they can kind of get a little bit of a stranglehold on

00:27that inside track for the big 12 championship yeah this is one of the best games of the weekend it's

00:31one of the best games that we have seen now and what will be the 103rd all-time meeting of the holy

00:36war don't ask byu if it's 103 they don't recognize some of the games in the late 1890s and early 1900s

00:42when they were brigham young academy not university but again this is the first rank versus rank top

00:4825 tilt between the utes and the coobs since 2009 bobby home field advantage you would think would

00:54be paramount in this rivalry we know how good utah has been in two decades under kyle whittingham

00:59in salt lake and yet what's really interesting here is that utah is a road favorite laying three

01:05and a half against the cougars utah has actually been a road favorite in half now of the last 10

01:11matchups in provo this will be the 10th meeting in provo since 2003 utah has been booked now as a

01:18favorite assuming this line holds even by just a few points five out of those 10 games here is why i

01:23believe utah is a favorite utah has scored 40 plus points in three of their four games against

01:29power conference competition this year the only game not against texas tech it's why the red raiders

01:34are in pole position to win the big 12 conference 40 plus in three of four against the power form

01:39is triple the amount that utah had scored 40 plus against power conference competition since the

01:46beginning of 2023 byu wins outright at home if that is the case it's because of the ground attack

01:51if utah wins outright and i'm starting to lean a little bit more to the utes it's devin dampier in

01:57that offense continuing to hum and maybe making some of what byu has allowed 21 plus now in all

02:03three big 12 games for the cougars seem a little bit more fraudulent than what the overall average

02:07looks like at this moment so when you look at this it's interesting because the only team that was

02:12really able to shut down that utah offense has been uh texas tech i mean they've they've been pretty darn

02:19good and that texas tech defense is a very very impressive so i i understand where you're at in

02:24that i can understand why utah is the road favorite and devin dampier he'll make all the difference in

02:29the world they love to run the ball and like you said that cougar defense is not great at this point

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