Aggies come up huge in clutch, break 4-game skid with win over Air Force – Cache Valley Daily
Photo by Clint Allen LOGAN – For two straight games, Utah State put together a solid quarter here, a good half there, but never put forward a complete game of winning football. Finally, when it began to matter most, the Aggies made winning plays in its 34-27 homecoming victory over Air Force. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak. “If a team needed a win worse than that group, I don’t what team it is,” head coach Blake Anderson said. “A month of grinding it out, close but not there, and we finally got it to click.” Utah State hadn’t won a game since its August victory over UConn in Week 0. Now in Week 6, the reigning Mountain West champion Aggies were in danger of being effectively eliminated from contention for the conference title. “We lose tonight, then it’s like ‘What are we playing for?’” Aggie quarterback Cooper Legas asked. “There’s no real motivation to go get the championship because it feels like if we lose this one then we’re out of the running.” “You get to a point where we’re fragile,” Anderson said, “this thing could go south real quick if we don’t see some fruit from the
