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Arizona coach urges his fans to be respectful vs. BYU after Colorado’s anti-LDS chants

The Wildcats don’t want a rerun of what happened the last time the Cougars were in Tucson.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) BYU fans cheer as at the Cougars stop the Mountaineers scoring drive on the 1-yardline, in Big-12 football action between the BYU Cougars the West Virginia Mountaineers at Lavell Edwards Stadium in Provo, on, in Friday, Oct. 3, 2025.

Arizona wants to sell out its stadium when BYU comes to town on Saturday.

But the Wildcats don’t want a rerun of what happened the last time the Cougars were in Tucson.

When BYU basketball played in Arizona last February, fans chanted “F--- the Mormons” after an Arizona loss. Football coach Brent Brennan urged his fan base to be “respectful” this time around.

“Let’s sell out Arizona Stadium and make it the hostile environment we know it can be,” Brennan said. “... When we do that, I would ask our fans, let’s be respectful in this thing.”

This comes on the heels of Colorado fans chanting anti-LDS messages at the flagship school for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The Buffs were fined $50,000 by the Big 12 and are instituting new security measures to monitor fan behavior.