What Happens to Sports Betting Rivalries Like BYU-Utah?. With the college conferences undergoing changes, what happens to sports betting rivalries like BYU versus Utah? Will those two teams continue to meet every year even though Utah will be in the Pac-10 and BYU in the Mountain West? The changes in the schedule won’t occur this year but they will take effect for the 2011 online sports betting season.
Sports betting odds on certain rivalries may stay in place while others will be lost. Utah and BYU are probably not going to play every year since they will be in difference conferences. One of the longest rivalries and one of the best rivalries in college football will be lost. Utah going to the Pac-10 was really a no brainer though since the Utes will make a lot more money in the Pac-10 than they made in the Mountain West. They will also have a better chance of making a BCS bowl game since the Pac-10 gets an automatic berth while the Mountain West does not. This could be the last season that BYU and Utah meet on a regular basis in college football and college basketball.
What other rivalries will be lost based on the changes in the conferences? Remember that Nebraska is moving from the Big 12 to the Big 10, Colorado is going from the Big 12 to the Pac-10 and Boise State is going from the WAC to the Mountain West. Of those teams, the rivalries that will be lost that people will focus on are Nebraska vs. Texas in college football and Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in college football. The Cornhuskers have a lot of tradition in the Big 12 so there will be some long-time rivalries that will be missed. Nebraska is not a college basketball power so those games are not a big deal. Colorado is not a power in either college football or college basketball so they don’t have a lot of rivalries that will be missed in sports betting.
Boise State has dominated the WAC but they have had some excellent games vs. the sports betting odds against Fresno State. That is one rivalry that will be lost but since they are going to the Mountain West they will immediately go up against BYU in what should be a great rivalry between two football powers.