We cross the mid-way point of the upcoming season with this edition of the opponent preview series. Utah State will have played half of its games by this stage of the season with quite a bit of its season's fortunes already decided. Will the Aggies be fighting for mere bowl eligibility or will they be gunning for a spot in the Mountain West title game? These are the kinds of storylines that will be forming by mid-October.

By preseason expectations and projections, this could be another coin flip game, much like USU's matchups with Air Force and Hawaii in the weeks preceding. That makes it a crucial contest and one the Aggies can hardly afford to lose if bowl game or contenting statuses are going to stick around beyond October.

This is the in-depth preseason preview of Utah State's sevent

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