{"id":2530,"date":"2010-11-21T20:07:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T03:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2020-01-09T04:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T11:46:03","slug":"the-byu-utah-rivalry-game-jimmertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/the-byu-utah-rivalry-game-jimmertime\/2530\/","title":{"rendered":"The BYU-Utah Rivalry Game + Jimmertime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I used to post about Mormon theology a lot?  No I can&#8217;t remember that far back either&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this Saturday the BYU Cougars football team will head up I-15 to play the Utah Utes in the annual rivalry game.  In recent years fans on both sides of this rivalry have gotten pretty nasty.  Hopefully the meanness will recede over the next few years with the teams leaving the Mountain West Conference to go their separate ways.  But this year should be pretty intense still.  BYU has rebounded from an atrocious first half of the season and has won four in a row in convincing fashion to become bowl eligible again.  More importantly, the BYU offense and defense both appear to have found their stride (even if it was against weak teams).  Utah is trying to steady the (pirate?) ship again after rising all the way to #5 in the country and then being beaten soundly two weeks in a row.  But the Utes did manage to hang on against a solid SDSU team this weekend so perhaps the Utes are back.<\/p>\n<p>The real surprise is that BYU has a legitimate chance in the rivalry game this season.  Five weeks ago it looked like BYU was going to be terrible all year and that Utah was practically a juggernaut.   Utah will still be favored this weekend but as &#8220;Holy Wars&#8221; go this one looks more evenly matched than anyone would have thought a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jimmertime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime the NCAA basketball season has begun.  BYU is led this season by its first preseason AP All-American player since Danny Ainge in senior point guard Jimmer Fredette.   The Cougs are currently 3-0 and ranked in the top 25.  It is hard to tell how good this BYU team will be but I think they have a decent chance of being even better than the BYU team last year that won 30 games and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament.  The biggest win of the season so far was a victory over a solid Utah State squad last Wednesday.  BYU didn&#8217;t look great but a win over a good team is always a good thing.  I expect to see BYU hoops in the top 20 soon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, sound off about the football season or hoops season in the comments.  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