For a couple decades man, that kind of dominance brereds arrogance like that.

Hubris biting them in the ass—no one likes BYU fans or teams.

No more than misery loves company for our lonely pale blue zoobs down south. They are referencing history of gridiron dominance over the Utes in the state of Utah for the past two or three decades per say to include their 1980 national championship. Now the tables have turned and Utah is the growing powerhouse program in the state of Utah and around the nation. zoobs are in denial and will bring up every “belittling” remark they can think of to make Utes and its football program feel small and inferior. zoobs are the ones that are insecure about it because Utah is getting all the national attention and respect. They can’t stand it that the Utes are respected and BYU is a "was, has been, a distant memory, and forgone conclusion.’ They feel America owes them respect from their dominance in the 80s and 90s and should always be mentioned in the same conversation as the likes of USC, Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Nebraska, and Notre Dame, to name a few. zoobs feel they should be entitled to perks and privileges over Utah regardless if they haven’t cracked the BCS in their existence. That it should just be a given because of their one national championship compared to the likes of USC, Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Nebraska, and Notre Dame who each have more titles than I can count. The national media has constantly put BYU on a peda-stool because of its national following which to me is pure hype and can be pressure to a football who is expected from the Mormon church and its LDS affiliated fans to perform at a high level, only to be disappointed when those expectation fall short due to a loss from teams who they are suppose to beat. Unfortunately, when expectations are set very high right off the bat at the beginning of the season, its very hard for a team who is not always ranked in the top 10 yearly to play at that level. This new kind of pressure that zoobies feel nowadays is for BYU to go undefeated, play in a BCS bowl game and win one. This the new monkey on their backs that is killing them.

but I know that every time I read it (comes up in the comments of pretty much every Utah/BYU newspaper article posted) I immediately imagine two mentally slow kids arguing next to the monkey bars at recess. I also see U fans joining in on this nonsense big brother/little brother argument—please Ute fans, it’s dumb when Y fans do it, and it’s just as dumb when U fans do it.

Two things about these comments that I wanted to address:

1.) 5-5, 10-10; Lets all just face it that the rivalry COULDN’T be any more even. As much as I dislike BYU, nobody is owning anyone in the last 20 years (seems like a nice round, non-cherrypicked number).

2.) Neither team has ever been all about helping the other one out. I’ve seen several bizarre comments from BYU fans suggesting that BYU has always helped Utah out and now Utah is stabbing them in the back. Utah has always done what’s best for Utah, and BYU has always done what’s best for BYU. Up to this point it was in both schools best interest to tether themselves together—a PAC10 invite changed that.

trying to degrade the other school.

Simply a superiority complex.

We are the little brother because they have a title and we don’t. they spout off not only thier title but thier conference titles and all their precious player awards. Never mind that they haven’t accomplished anything of note (except for a couple of MWC titles) in the BCS era.

of them would say utah. there one title is soo long ago that unless you are a hardcore fan you would not even know it happened. the paradigm shifted when we went to the bcs system in 1998. people have short attention spans and most only remember a few years ago. i know who won the 1998 first bcs ncg off the top of my head. how many of you can do it without looking it up? the fact is we have 2 bcs bowl wins to none for byu and now that we are in the pac-12 i say it only takes us two years to get to the rose bowl and five to win a national cg. i’m that confident.