Utah State and BYU canceled their games after 2022, ending the rivalry for the foreseeable future.
BYU celebrates the win as the Utah State Aggies host Brigham Young University Cougars at Maverik Stadium Oct. 1, 2021. The Cougars attempt a second straight win for the Wagon Wheel, the trophy of the in-state rivalry, while the Aggies will try to recapture the trophy.Upon the occasion of Gary Andersen’s first Utah State-BYU rivalry game in Logan, the former head coach got a heads-up from a longtime equipment manager.
“I told him, ‘Go get it Steve,” Andersen said. “So he took off back to Provo. As the story is told, the wheel was stuck up in some room up there at BYU and he found it. He brought it back and we brought that sucker up and found a special place for it for everyone to see.” The Cougars and Aggies were scheduled to face one another four more times through the 2026 season. The cancelation of those games “disappointed” Utah State athletics director John Hartwell.
Eventually, the Utah State series would reach the same fate as the others. Language in the scheduling contract allowed BYU to avoid a $1 million buyout if it entered a new conference. As BYU head coach Kalani Sitake has said, these decisions are “all based on contracts.”The two schools have met 90 times, spanning several conferences and eras. It was also a rivalry that helped create quarterbacks and fire coaches.
Looking ahead, BYU opted to keep non-conference games against SEC foes Arkansas and Tennessee in its first year of the Big 12. The only game the Cougars will pay an opponent to play will come against Southern Utah at home.
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