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Gordon Monson: Six huge issues in the Utah-BYU rivalry game

That’s the number of times, something like that, I’ve been asked who’s going to win the Utah-BYU game.

Anticipation may be one of the primary components to a football season opener, but it is amplified a hundred times more when that first game includes the interest and intensity and insanity of the BYU-Utah rivalry. That game is now a week away, and while there’s much to anticipate, there’s also a bit of mystery cloaking the whole thing.

Here, then, are six key issues to be settled when the anticipating ends and the action and the answering begins:

It’s a hell of a question, and a hellish challenge for the Cougars.