This weekend Utah State will either make a booming announcement to the country or find itself licking wounds and looking for ways to regain lost momentum at the end of a matchup with No. 18 Vanderbilt.

Utah State has generated quite a bit of much-needed positive momentum in the early part of its season. Preseason predictions placed the Aggies as a fringe bowl team, at best, with the more pessimistic guesses placing them as one of the 20-30 worst teams in the nation. They've climbed up from that floor to a 3-1 record, USU's best start since the 2021 Mountain West championship season, and many of those metrics that had the Aggies in the bottom 30 now have them as roughly average for the FBS.

All of that momentum is now on the line with a buy game against a ranked SEC opponent. Again. This

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