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Obtuse Trivia Tidbit

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September 27, 2015 at 12:23am
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During the football broadcasts on Saturday, someone mentioned the 31-0 shutout of BYU vs TTUN was the first against that team since 2003. I remembered that BYU vs Utah was quite a rivalry at one point, being billed as the Holy War.

i had an inkling about that game, and it turns out that UFM was the coach of the 2003 Utes team that last shut out BYU. Quite the coincidence? From Wikipedia:

2003 and 2004: Crowton versus Meyer

Urban Meyer was hired to replace Ron McBride. Under Meyer, Utah players were not allowed to use the name BYU and began referring rather to the Team Down South or TDS (BYU being about 50 miles south of the University of Utah), imitating Ohio State coach Woody Hayes practice of referring to Michigan as "that team up north." This reference has become a tradition among some Utah fans.[citation needed]

Scoring streak ends

In Meyer's first season, the Utes won the Mountain West Conference and finished 10–2, which was their best record since the 1994 season. The last game of the regular season, Utah beat BYU for the second straight year with a 3–0 victory. The victory snapped BYU's NCAA record for scoring in 361 straight games—BYU's first shutout since a 20–0 loss to Arizona State on September 25, 1975.

 

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