One of the most interesting thoughts from over the weekend has been this question: Can Utah State be a contender in the Mountain West this season? It might seem like a crazy idea home to only the minds of Aggie fans. But it's one that will likely have to be reckoned with by a lot of fans from other MW teams that wrote off USU as being in a full-on rebuild year.

The thing that puts nuance into this question is that the Aggies starting 3-1 isn't all that surprising. My own preseason preview series predicted Utah State would be 3-1 by this point in the season, saying they'd have close wins over UTEP and Air Force, a blowout loss to Texas A&M and a blowout win over McNeese. I wasn't exactly off by all that much in those assertions, save for nitpicking the fact the Aggies winning by 19 against

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