Now that TCU has effectively drubbed both BYU and Utah into submission, we college football fans in the Beehive State can turn our attention to the "Unholy War" which will be played in approximately 12 days. The BYU/Utah down in Provo looks to be a classic. If both teams take care of business this weekend, they will both go into the match up at 9-2 and both will be ranked in the top 20.
So to kick off our coverage of the rivalry lets do the whole comparative scores thing (even though we know it doesn't work out that well). We will list their common opponents and the results of the game and see if we can come up with anything good.
Utah State: BYU won 35-17 Utah won 35-17
Not much of a difference there.
Colorado State: BYU won 42-23 Utah won 24-17
If we do the differential BYU is +12 (Won by 19 versus won by 7)
UNLV: BYU won 59-21 Utah won 35-15
Differential BYU +18. Running differential BYU +30
TCU: BYU lost 38-7 Utah lost 55-28
Differential Utah +4. Running differential BYU +26
Wyoming: BYU won 52-0 Utah won 22-10
Differential BYU +40. Running differential BYU +66
New Mexico: BYU won 24-19 Utah won 45-14
Differential Utah +26. Running differential BYU +40
Those are the common opponents of BYU and Utah to this point. The real crazy scores are the Wyoming and New Mexico games. BYU killed Wyoming while Utah barely scraped by. Likewise Utah killed New Mexico while BYU barely scraped by. TCU meanwhile exposed both teams. BYU's offense was supposed to be their strong point, they only scored 7 against TCU. Utah's defense is their best phase of the game, they gave up 55 points to TCU. I would submit that right now we have no idea which of these two teams is better, although the common opponent comparison leans heavily in BYU's favor. More will be coming on the Unholy War, but for now feel free to disagree with me however you wish.
**Just as a side note going into the rivalry game in 2008, the running differential showed Utah as a +88, in 2007 it had Utah as a +16 and in 2006 it had BYU as a +97**
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