SALT LAKE CITY — Over the first 96 years, the Utah-BYU football rivalry wasn’t really a rivalry in the sense of competitiveness. Utah dominated the first 75 years before BYU turned the tide and dominated for two decades between 1972 and 1992. The vast majority of the Utah-BYU games were not even close.
However, ever since the Utes took that famous 34-31 victory in Provo in 1993, the BYU-Utah rivalry is unmatched in college football for its sheer competitiveness on the field.
While the Utes own a 15-7 edge in the series since 1993, an astonishing 17 of those 22 games have been decided by a touchdown or less, including two overtimes, with the majority of the contest coming down to the final minute and many on the final play of the game.