neither of our teams really need each other. Your schedule is pretty solid w/out us and ours will always be solid with playing USC, UCLA, ASU, etc every year. I want the rivalry because I enjoy it. And as I mentioned before it does affect recruiting in state. You guys will get a lot of the in state kids every year because of the LDS factor, but the border line kids pay attention to the game. And its just a big game. Lots of Utah families are split with BYU and Utah fans. No other game each year has as much attention in this state as this one. Its talked about a year in advance, we each try to compare ourselves to each others rosters well in advance of the game. Its just a fun game(IMO).