ANN ARBOR, Mich. — BYU at Michigan’s Big House and Utah at Oregon’s Autzen Stadium on the same weekend? Both nationally ranked? Both the focus of a big-time college football weekend and on national TV?
Yes. And yes, and yes.
This isn’t the way we expected it when these two programs were slugging it out in their days in the WAC and Mountain West. But this is what Pac-12 membership and independence have left at our doorstep on the eve of October.
We’ll take it.
And so will Las Vegas natives Gregg Benson, a 41-year old accountant, and Kaleb Anderson, a 39-year old attorney, who lined up in the 'A' group at a Southwest Airlines gate at Chicago’s Midway Airport Friday about midday for Flight 130 to Detroit.