As BYU and Navy prepare to battle, their college football neighbors are stuck on the sidelines

PROVO — It is the East hosting the only college football team playing in the West.

It’s BYU vs. Navy on Labor Day.

These storied programs, alma maters of Heisman Trophy winners Roger Staubach and Ty Detmer, meet Monday while other parts of the country endure a big-time college football vacuum with empty mammoth stadiums at Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State, among others.

Photo courtesy of Hansen family

In Pac-12 country and the mighty Midwest states where Big Ten passion reigns huge, the silence of no pads clashing will be deafening.