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When the Utah Utes play Washington at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday, it won't be noteworthy just because it's their first Pac-12 Conference home game.It also will be the first time the Huskies have played in Salt Lake City.The teams have met just six times, all between 1931 and 1979, all of them at Husky Stadium in Seattle. And the Huskies have won every single time — all but once holding the Utes to seven points or less. In fact, the Utes have been outscored 141-46 in the series.Only in a 21-14 loss in 1953 did they score more than seven points against UW, and the Utes lost the last two meetings — in 1959 and 1979 — by a combined score of 92-13.The good news for fans, though?The Utes are favored by 8 on Saturday.
— Michael C. Lewis