Cougar quarterback Max Hall will bring with him the top-ranked passing offense in the Mountain West Conference against Utah’s second-ranked scoring defense, which has only allowed 16.6 points per game this year.
With the huge BYU-Utah rivalry comes bragging rights, an intense fight for a win and oftentimes the final deciding factor of which team will receive the Mountain West Conference title.
To the entire 2008 Utah football team’s credit, this attitude of “one foot in front of the other” has put the No. 8 Utes one win away from an outright Mountain West Conference Championship, a perfect 12-0 regular season and a Bowl Championship Series berth.
Utah and BYU come into this rivalry game with evenly matched teams and similar seasons.
He is a microcosm of Utah’s genuine disdain for BYU in general and he’s playing the part of the villain perfectly. He’s a guy who Utah fans can forever love to hate.
