The University of Utah football team will make the trip about 400 miles northeast this weekend to Laramie, Wyoming — the same trip that the Utes made for decades when the two programs were in the WAC and Mountain West conferences.

The big difference in the jaunt to Laramie now?

The Utes are in the Big 12 Conference, which means War Memorial Stadium will play host to a power conference team this week — something that is not as rare as you’d think in the modern era.

BYU made the trip to War Memorial Stadium last season, winning 34-14 , and in 2023, Texas Tech lost 35-33 in double overtime as Cowboys fans stormed the field. In the past two and a half decades, Wyoming has hosted teams from every power conference — ACC (Virginia, 2007), Big 12 (Texas, 2009; Kansas, 2003; Texas A&M, 2001), B

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