Utah and BYU will open the football season against each other in the latest installment of a rivalry that has produced continual disagreement.
BYU says nothing like this ever happened. Utah contends the programs did this is in the beginning of the series. Regardless of whether the rivalry began in the spring of 1896 with Brigham Young Academy playing football (Utah's story) or in October 1922 with BYU playing Utah in its second game since launching the sport (the Cougars' version), this is new material for the modern era.
Almost no matter how it ends, the 2019 season will be remembered in this state for how it started, in Provo on a Thursday night in August.