Utah Utes, Pac-12 Conference Release 2021 Football Schedule

Mar 2, 2021, 9:23 AM | Updated: 9:28 am

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Utah Utes wide receiver Britain Covey (18) celebrates a kick return for touchdown with teammates as Utah and Oregon State play a college football game at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Utah won 30-24. (Scott G Winterton, Deseret News)

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BY TREVOR ALLEN, KSL SPORTS

KSL Sports

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Pac-12 Conference and Utah Utes football released the 2021 regular season and non-conference schedule for this fall.

Utah football will play 12 games in their 2021 regular season schedule and will open the campaign on Thursday, September 2 at Rice-Eccles Stadium against Weber State.

The Utes will then head south on I-15 to battle rival BYU at LaVell Edwards Stadium on Saturday, September 11. They will wrap up the non-conference portion of their schedule with a road contest against former Mountain West foe San Diego State on Saturday, September 18.

Utah will play on Thursday once (vs. Weber State) and Friday twice (at Stanford, vs. Colorado).

IT'S HERE 🙌

The 2021 Utah Football Season Schedule pic.twitter.com/fOH9SXBW5k

— Utah Football (@Utah_Football) March 2, 2021

Utah will not play California or Washington this season.

Here is the Pac-12 schedule for Utah heading into the 2021 season:

vs. Washington State, Saturday, September 25
BYE, Saturday, October 2
@ USC, Saturday, October 9
vs. Arizona State, Saturday, October 16
@ Oregon State, Saturday, October 23
vs. UCLA, Saturday, October 30
@ Stanford, Friday, November 5
@ Arizona, Saturday, November 13
vs. Oregon, Saturday, November 20
vs. Colorado, Friday, November 26

The Utes are coming off of a 3-2 season in 2020 where they played five of their seven scheduled games that were all conference-only due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trevor Allen is a Utah Utes Insider for sports.ksl.com and host of the Crimson Corner podcast. Follow him on Twitter: @TrevorASports. You can download and listen to the podcast, here.

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