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Battle of the Brothers
Teams	Utah Utes Utah Utes football The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that currently competes in the Pacific-12 Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I and represents the University of Utah. The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Rice–Eccles... Utah State Aggies Utah State Aggies football The Utah State Aggies are a college football team that competes in the Western Athletic Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I, representing Utah State University. The Utah State college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Romney Stadium since 1968...
First Meeting	November 25, 1892 Utah St. 12, Utah 0
Most Recent Meeting	September 3, 2009 Utah 35, Utah St. 17
Next Meeting	2012
Series	Utah leads, 77–28–4
Trophy	see Beehive Boot Beehive Boot The Beehive Boot, which signifies instate football supremacy among Division I universities from the state of Utah, was conceived in 1971. The authentic pioneer boot, which is estimated to be well over 100 years old, is awarded annually to the Utah school with the best record against its instate...
Utah St. (28) 1892 1903 1913 1917 1920 1921 1923 1925 1936 1940 1946 1954 1961 1962 1965 1966 1967 1968 1971 1972 1974 1975 1976 1979 1983 1987 1996 1997	Utah (77) 1900 1901 1902 1904 1905 1906 1907 1909 1909 1910 1910 1914 1915 1916 1919 1922 1926 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1937 1938 1939 1941 1942 1944 1945 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1963 1964 1969 1970 1973 1977 1978 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Ties (4) 1912 1924 1927 1935
Years played twice 1909 1910
Years not played (since 1900) 1908 1911 1912 1915 1918 1924 1927 1935 1943 2010 2011

The Battle of the Brothers is an American college football

College football

College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...

 rivalry

College rivalry

Pairs of schools, colleges and universities, especially when they are close to each other either geographically or in their areas of specialization, often establish a college rivalry with each other over the years. This rivalry can extend to both academics and athletics, the latter being typically...

 game played annually by the Utah Utes football

Utah Utes football

The Utah Utes football program is a college football team that currently competes in the Pacific-12 Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I and represents the University of Utah. The Utah college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Rice–Eccles...

 team of the University of Utah

University of Utah

The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...

 and the Utah State Aggies football

Utah State Aggies football

The Utah State Aggies are a college football team that competes in the Western Athletic Conference of the Football Bowl Subdivision of NCAA Division I, representing Utah State University. The Utah State college football program began in 1892 and has played home games at Romney Stadium since 1968...

 team of Utah State University

Utah State University

Utah State University is a public university located in Logan, Utah. It is a land-grant and space-grant institution and is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities....

. It also may be used to refer to the annual basketball game between these two schools.

The most notable feature of this rivalry is its lengthy history–dating all the way back to 1892. Since that initial meeting, the schools have played over one hundred games – meeting nearly every season. Additionally, Utah and Utah State have not competed in the same conference since 1961, meaning each meeting since then has been a voluntary non-conference game.

For much of its history, whenever the Battle of the Brothers was played in Salt Lake City, it was held on Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving (United States)

Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday in November. It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday,...

. However, this aspect of the rivalry ended in 1958. Since 1959, no meeting has been played on Thanksgiving Day; and more recently, the meeting has been held in September as one of the first games of the season for both teams.

In the 1970s, the University of Utah and its fans turned their sights towards Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University

Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...

 as their biggest rival, and the Holy War

Holy War (Utah vs. BYU)

The Holy War is an American college football rivalry game played annually by the University of Utah Utes and the Brigham Young University Cougars. The game is part of the larger Utah–BYU rivalry...

became the main rivalry game in the state of Utah. But while Utah leads their series against Utah State 77–28–4, the Battle of the Brothers is expected to remain a staple of each teams' annual non-conference schedule.