Things to watch this week in the Big 12 Conference:

Game of the week

No. 17 Texas Tech (3-0) at No. 16 Utah (3-0), Saturday, noon ET (Fox)

The first meeting in more than a half-century between Texas Tech and Utah will be a Big 12 opener and a matchup of the league’s only ranked teams that are playing this week. Behren Morton and the Red Raiders piled up a lot of points in nonconference play, as did the Utes. Tech is the nation’s highest-scoring team at 58 points a game and has outscored opponents 154-0 in the first three quarters. Morton has 923 yards passing with an FBS-high 11 touchdowns while playing only 6 1/2 quarters. Utah and new QB Devon Dampier have averaged 45.7 points a game while the Utes also ranked eighth nationally allowing only 8.3 points, including only two TDs.

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