This is the latest installment of Traditionally Weird, a weekly series on the oddities and eccentricities of college football, from mascots to rivalries to student section rituals and (way) beyond.



On the eve of his beloved Wisconsin Badgers’ game at BYU two years ago, Ben Cohen and his buddy realized they faced a bit of a conundrum. They’d made the trip all the way to Provo, Utah — one of college football’s most unique settings — but didn’t know what to do until the 1:30 p.m. Mountain kickoff.



BYU is a private school owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And it has a very strict Honor Code forbidding alcohol, a staple of most pregame festivities.



“We figured out that there was a bar, so we went to the bar,” Cohen said. “The owner of it told me, at 11 or 11:30 a.m. that day, that it was the greatest day in the bar’s history. The poor bartenders, I don’t...