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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Kruger-Dunning on 2025-06-06 13:24:14+00:00.

Who is your team’s rival that most college football fans wouldn’t know about? Maybe even a lot of your fans don’t realize the depth of the rivalry until they attend a game live?

For BYU, a lot of fans know about many of our lesser rivals (Pokes, TCU, Boise, trending toward ASU). But, Washington has to be our best under radar rival. In 1984 14-0 BYU were awarded the national championship over 13-1 Washington, and Washington fans have never stopped being salty. The next year BYU beat Washington 31-3. The year after that Washington beat BYU 52-21, kicking off the worst years of 1980s BYU. Then, in 1996 Washington beat Steve Sarkisian-led BYU in a close game in Seattle and likely single handedly cost BYU a second national championship (BYU finished 14-1 and #5 in the AP Poll behind four other one-less teams). The following years each team had spooky wins that had a negative impact on the other’s season (e.g., BYU’s 2010 win on a missed extra point due to the bullshit Jake Locker unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, or UW’s drubbing of BYU multiple times during the worst years of independence).