For one day, for the first time in almost three decades, Ken Niumatalolo was a college football fan.
Niumatalolo took advantage of Navy’s bye week and some fortuitous scheduling to see both of his sons play in-person on the same day. Navy’s head coach traveled out to Utah with his wife and watched oldest son Va’a play for Brigham Young University and youngest son Ali’i play for the University of Utah.
BYU hosted Wisconsin in a game that started at 1:30 p.m. Mountain Time at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo. Ken and Barbara Niumatalolo then drove an hour to Salt Lake City to catch Utah’s 8 p.