Provo • Is the relatively unknown college football team that visits LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday afternoon for a first-ever matchup with BYU better than the high-profile team that limped out of Rice Eccles Stadium Saturday night?
At least, the Northern Illinois Huskies gave the Utah Utes a much better game six weeks ago than the USC Trojans did Saturday. Utah outlasted NIU 17-6 in DeKalb, Ill., on Sept. 8, while it blasted USC 41-28 in a game that wasn’t that close. The Utes gained just 354 yards of offense against the Huskies, then put 541 on the Trojans.