Down to its 4th-string QB, Utah State wins hectic game at Colorado State – Cache Valley Daily
Byron Vaughns and Daniel Grzesiak FORT COLLINS – Utah State learned the full truth of two old football clichés on Saturday – no win is ever guaranteed, and anything can happen in a game. The Aggies walked onto the field of Canvas Stadium as two-touchdown favorites against the Rams of Colorado State. By the fourth quarter, USU was fighting to close out an eventual 17-13 road win with its fourth-string quarterback, true freshman Bishop Davenport, handing the ball off to the running back, Calvin Tyler Jr. “What can you say? Wow. Not the way we scripted it. Super proud of the guys to overcome all that happened,” USU head coach Blake Anderson said. Later, he added to that saying these kinds of wins just “don’t happen.” “To give up a blocked punt and to go through three quarterbacks and lose as many guys we did during a game. Those are games you typically lose and somehow we found a way to win,” Anderson said. Quarterbacks were in short supply in Fort Collins on both sides. The Rams were already down to its third-stringer, a walk-on freshman in Giles Pooler, after its week one starter, Clay Millen, and its backup signal-caller,
