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Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium expansion study still in early stages, university has hired market and architecture consultants

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When the Utes play their next home football game against Stanford on Oct. 7, future renovations to Rice-Eccles Stadium figure to garner discussion among the homecoming crowd.

“They obviously have great attendance,” Scott said. “There’s more demand, but I think they’re being very deliberate and cautious in the evaluation and in terms of what to do. We’ve got minimum standards, but our schools are well above the minimum standards. We don’t really weigh in. The schools really make a market decision about what they want to do.”

Last March, the university announced it would do a feasibility study on expanding the south end zone at Rice-Eccles Stadium.