BYU and Weber State have announced that they will meet on Saturday, September 8, 2012 in Provo at LaVell Edwards Stadium. The game will mark the third meeting between the two schools and the first since 1978. Both games were lop-sided Cougar victories.
Coach Ron McBride will make his 7th appearance as the Cougars opposing coach. He lost his first and last game in Provo as Utah's head coach. But he won the other 4, including the first famous 34-31 game in 1993. Utah also won 34-17 in 1995, 20-14 in 1997, and 20-17 in 1999. The four consecutive Utah wins in Provo still stick into the craw of Cougar fans and are something that never happened with any other opponent when the legendary LaVell Edwards was the Cougar coach (LaVell almost never lost two in a row to the same opponent). In his last visit to Provo, he suffered a heartbreaking 24-21 loss to the Cougars in 2001 on a late long touchdown run by that year's Doak Walker winner, Luke Staley.
The 71-year-old McBride may be making his last trip to Provo as the head coach of the opposing team. There may not be an opportunity for Coach McBride to "even" his record in Provo. But the visit will definitely be nostalgic for both Coach McBride and the Cougar Faithful.
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