the upper-Northwest. I will settle for our four games guaranteed on ESPN, although I will certainly agree that that will change if we start losing.

Listen, although I sound argumentative, I have spent the last fifteen years arguing that western football is actually worth following. And until this recent development, I usually root for Utah to win and want them to be successful in the PAC-12. But with this move, they have made clear that it is a "hunger games" scenario in which only one of us will be allowed to prosper, and I have to be much more a Utah detractor than ever before. And that is what is really unfortunate. Most of us are not hugely partisan against the other team other than one week a year. This move plays into the hatred and invective of the crazies on both sides of the rivalry.