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When No. 10 Utah plays No. 14 Houston Saturday at Rice-Eccles, it will be telling

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Finally, we are going to find out how good Utah's football team really is. At last, the Utes are going to pick on someone their own size, as it were. Two months into the season, we will see if they really are one of the best teams in the nation.

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