Utah

Home-field advantage · Utah · 2018–present · FBS opponents

Utah is worth +3.2 points more at home than on the road.

Bottom third of FBS, 33rd percentile of 133 programs

80% at home, 60% away against FBS opponents since 2018 (33–8 home, 25–17 away). Interval ±3.9.

Our model gives every stadium the same flat 2.3-point home edge — per-team modelling was tested and did not survive scrutiny (why) — and the books use about 3. Against the closing line, Utah has beaten the number by +2.6 more at home than away over 74 games — inside the ±6.5 that many games can resolve. Results here cannot tell the flat number apart from the building, and that is the honest reading of nearly every FBS stadium.

Rice-Eccles Stadium seats 51,444 and has averaged 102% full (52,251, 27 games reported). Visitors cover a median 585 miles to get here since 2018 — 31st-longest of 135 FBS venues, inside the ordinary range. For the home side it is genuinely home ground: 30% of the 2026 roster (32 of 107 located players) grew up inside 100 miles of the stadium.

Edge = half the gap between average home margin and average road margin, FBS opponents only, non-neutral games since 2018; the interval is 95%. Market line: closing spread, seasons with lines on file. Trip length is straight-line miles from the visiting team's campus to the venue, measured across all 49 home games since 2018.