Every year during the short span when BYU's football and basketball seasons overlap, we are treated to one weekend when both squads play big games.
In 2007, it was BYU's fourth-and-18 win over Utah in the gridiron, coinciding with the BYU hoopsters upsetting No. 6 Louisville and taking No. 1 North Carolina to the wire during a hardwood tourney in Las Vegas.
The 2008 offering comes Saturday as the 16th-ranked BYU football team plays Arizona in the Las Vegas Bowl and the unbeaten basketball Cougars face No. 18 Arizona State at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
If Lee Cummand and company can beat the Sun Devils, the Cougars will vault into the Top 25 with an 11-0 mark and likely be ranked in the Top 20 when they host No. 10 Wake Forest on Jan. 3. That'll be a fun one.
BYU's football team looks to end on a positive note and earn a third straight 11-win season against an Arizona team that runs similar offensive and defensive schemes to the Cougars.
The B-ball tips at 2:30 p.m. on FSN. The gridders take the field at 6 p.m. on ESPN.
It's a feast worthy of the holiday season. And if the Cougars go 2-0 on the day, we'll all be wearing by smiles when we show up to church Sunday.
Enjoy.
