national media. IRC the reason BYU went to CC on short notice was because BYU's season wasn't strong enough in 2020 ( even though that was outside BYU's control. BYU played CC to try and provide BYU more credibility. If they had been in a conference like Utah that would've been un-needed.
The Utes never had to do anything similar. They enjoyed sitting back in a "P5" conference in the PAC12 and enjoyed credit for just being in a P5 conference.