I engage with Utah fans everyday. We are good friends and talk a lot of football.
But I will berate them to no end if they try and argue that "if Utah and BYU played this year, then . . . "
You don't get to chicken-poop out of a historic rivalry, take your P12-emblazoned ball and go home, tuck your tail because you can't play "3 really hard games," and then boast that you WOULD HAVE WON.
No, you are childish fool if you think you can refuse to play and then stand on a podium and declare you would win if you just weren't too cowardly to play.