SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah soccer group opens its Big 12 Conference schedule with a ten a.m. MT kickoff on Saturday vs. Texas Tech at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The No. 16 Utes (3-0) and No. 17 Red Raiders (3-0) will meet for the third time in historical past and first time since 1973.
SATURDAY LINEUP
Venue: Rice-Eccles Stadium (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Time: 10 a.m. MT
Watch (FOX): Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst), Jenny Taft (sideline)
ESPN 700 AM & 92.1 FM: Bill Riley (play-by-play), Scott Mitchell (analyst), Steven Sylvester (sideline); SiriusXM Ch. 82
FOX BIG NOON KICKOFF • FOX Big Noon Kickoff’s reside broadcast will start at 8 a.m. MT from Ute Village on the southwest nook of Guardsman Way and 500 South, subsequent to the Smith’s Ultimate Tailgate Experience. It might be preceded by The Barstool College Football Show starting at 7 a.m. on the similar web site.
• Admission to the viewing space is free, and followers are inspired to deliver indicators. FOX might be freely giving sport tickets, free meals, trucker hats and $500 for the most effective signal.
• Rob Stone anchors the Big Noon Kickoff desk, and is joined by former school soccer stars Mark Ingram II, Matt Leinart and Brady Quinn, in addition to former Utes head coach and 2025 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Urban Meyer and Barstool’s Dave Portnoy. Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica gives professional sports activities betting evaluation, plus award-winning reporter Tom Rinaldi contributes unique interviews.
THE NUMBERS • Utah continues to ascend within the polls, shifting as much as No. 16 within the Associated Press ballot and No. 18 within the Coaches Poll for Week 4.
• The Utes are eighth within the FBS in scoring protection (8.3 ppg) and 14th within the nation in scoring offense (45.7 ppg).
• Utah’s protection has allowed simply two touchdowns and 25 factors by three video games, whereas the offense has tallied 19 touchdowns and scored 137 factors for a degree differential of +112.
• Saturday would be the first matchup between Utah and Texas Tech because the two groups performed in back-to-back years, 1972-73, each Red Raider wins in Lubbock.
UTAH FOOTBALL: NEED TO KNOWS • Utah has topped 200 dashing yards in all three video games to start out the season, the primary time since 2019 they’ve surpassed 200 yards on the bottom in three consecutive matchups. The 311 dashing yards at Wyoming final Saturday had been a season-high and marked the primary time since Nov. 4, 2023 that Utah rushed for 300-plus yards.
• The Utes’ offense ranks second within the nation in third down conversion share, changing on 71 p.c of alternatives by the primary three weeks of the season. Utah is seventh within the nation in first downs offense, totaling 85 first downs in three video games.
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Devon Dampier is second within the Big 12 Conference and twelfth within the FBS in completion share at 73 p.c.
• Utah’s protection ranks twelfth within the nation and third within the Big 12 in passes intercepted (4), whereas
Jackson Bennee leads the convention with two picks, one shy of 5 gamers tied for the nationwide lead with three.
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