The Iowa State Cyclones play the Utah Utes in a college football Week 13 game on Saturday, Nov. 23, at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. 

Which team will win the game? 

Check out these picks and predictions for the game, which is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. MST and can be seen on FOX (stream with this free trial from Fubo). 

Iowa State is coming off a 34-17 win against Cincinnati in Week 12. Utah lost 49-24 against Colorado last week. 

Iowa State is a 5.5-point favorite over Utah in college football Week 13 odds for the game, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. 

The moneyline is not yet available. 

The over/under for the game is set at 42.5 points. 

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Dimers.com: Iowa State 24, Utah 21

It writes, “After extensive simulations, our model gives Iowa State a win probability of 58%, while Utah has a win probability of 42%.”

ESPN: The Cyclones have a 63.1% chance to defeat the Utes 

The site’s matchup predictor gives Utah a 36.9% shot to beat Iowa State on Saturday. 

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The Utah State Records Committee is an important part of the state’s mostly admirable process of keeping its government open.

Or it was, until a Senate committee started sitting on nominations to the committee, leaving it without enough members to act and unreasonably limiting the public’s right to know what its government is up to.

The mess at Utah Tech University, where charges of a toxic work environment have been bottled up and kept from public view, is only one example of what happens when the process is stymied.

The records committee hears appeals from citizens and the media when someone has filed a request for information using Utah’s Government Records and Management Act and the relevant government agency has refused to release it.

At least it used to, when the seven-member body had at least five people serving, enough to constitute a quorum to do business.

But the terms of three of those members expired. Gov. Spencer Cox properly nominated those same three people to serve another term, but the relevant Senate committee refused to approve the nominations, leaving the committee inert.

Cox has since forwarded two new nominations to the Senate Business and Labor Confirmation Committee. Approving just one of those appointments could get the open records process up and running again.

But the committee’s chairman, Sen. Curt Bramble, has refused to schedule any hearings or votes on any of the candidates. That’s unusual for the Utah Senate, which usually responds to such nominations quickly.

Bramble offered no reason why the outgoing members weren’t reapproved and said he wanted to wait on the two pending candidates until the committee could consider nominees for all three vacant posts.

That’s not showing much respect either for the governor’s choices or the whole process of open government in Utah.

While Bramble dawdles, undoubtedly with a back slap from legislative leadership, open records appeals are piling up and languishing, in some cases, for more than six months.

It is reasonable to suspect that the Senate’s inaction is less sloth than it is a deliberate attack on the records committee and the whole open records process, revenge for its ruling holding that the calendar kept by Attorney General Sean Reyes is a public record.

The Senate should approve Cox’s nominees right away and make the records committee functional again.

Better, the law should be changed so that any records committee member whose term has expired is allowed to continue serving until a replacement has been confirmed.

The committee’s work is too important to be allowed to grind to a halt just because some elected officials won’t do their jobs.

It’s now two nights in a row that De’Aaron Fox has put up big time numbers and he did it two nights in a row. Tonight Fox helped light the beam by beating the Utah Jazz 121-117.

It’s a pretty remarkable win for the Kings who didn’t have Domantas Sabonis, DeMar DeRozan, or Malik Monk. In the fourth quarter the Jazz were up by 10 and the Kings were able to claw their way back and get a win. It took all of the 49 points from Fox to get the win. He would have had 50+ but he actually missed two free throws late that gave the Jazz some life late in the game.

The Kings have to be excited that they could eke out this win on the back end of a back-to-back. Utah also has to be happy to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Utah has to consider the future with every game. It may seem like a lot but Utah’s 3 wins currently has them off pace for a top-three pick. They have to worry about development while also solidifying their place at the top of the lottery.

As far as development, we’re seeing players show their chops.

Keyonte George was great offensively in this one. He was 6/10 from the field, 2/4 from three and 5/5 from the free throw line. He ends the game with 19 points, 2 assists and 2 rebounds. George is now putting in consistently good shooting nights and is making great decisions. He’s playing a little more off ball and it’s exciting for a couple reasons. The first is that it’s working, the second is that it solidifies his role in the future. If Utah does this right, they will get a cornerstone player at the wing. Key can fit perfectly as a scorer next to a superstar.

The other player that is shining is Kyle Filipowski who is making some real waves. Filipowski had a monster dunk tonight driving from the three-point line.

He also had some real moments of toughness where he showed his awesome potential. It’s clear that the game is slowing down for Filipowski more and more. Each night he seems more and more like an NBA rotation player. If he can consistently keep up this level of play with efficient shooting, he may be the steal of the draft for Utah.