At the Las Vegas bowl welcome dinner, a Utah player took the first shot in the rivalry.
It didn't take long for the rivalry chatter to hit center stage in Las Vegas between the BYU Cougars and Utah Utes. In the festivities the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl officials were trying to keep things from getting out of hand between the teams -- as they wouldn't even let the teams compete against each other in the Dance Off at the banquet tonight, according to Mathew Piper of the Salt Lake Tribune:
In fact, organizers wouldn't let the teams dance off AGAINST each other, out of fear of controversy.