Utah still needs BYU as much as we need them. The rivalry helps define us BOTH. Without it, both universities lose something. Utah will have no rivalry with any other school in the PAC10. They can try with Colorado, but there is no history there to make it compelling. Every other school has it own geographic rival, so Utah would always be #2--at best--for those schools. The rivalry is too huge in this state, helps the exposure of both schools, to let it go. Utah may be gone, but the rivalry will live on, and have a new dimension--conference trash talk.