Provo • A veteran of many BYU-Utah football games, the “rivalry hangover” is real, BYU football coach Kalani Sitake said Monday. But the Cougars cannot afford to let it linger because they have another nationally ranked program coming into LaVell Edwards Stadium this Saturday.
Emotionally spent after losing 19-13 to Utah, the Cougars (1-2) face No. 10-ranked Wisconsin (2-0) at 1:30 p.m. MT on ABC.
“The rivalry game takes a lot out of you,” Sitake said in his Monday press briefing. “But you gotta move on. It is big-time football now. With the [rivalry] game being this early, you have to move on to the next week.