Part 2 – Cache Valley Daily
Utah State wide receiver Brandon Swindall (11) celebrates after a touchdown during the second half of the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl NCAA college football game against Akron in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. Akron won 23-21. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger) Utah State’s 20th century bowl history is almost the dictionary definition of spotty. The Aggies’ six bowl appearances (or five depending on which governing body you ask) were bunched into three spurts – 1946 and 1947, 1960 and 1961, and then 1993 and 1997. Gaps between bowl games were measured either in decades or months. That trend has changed. Since 2011, USU has appeared in 10 bowl games, including this year. The recent trend of bowl appearances has put Utah State on par with the other two FBS teams in the state, BYU and the University of Utah. Those two schools have a longer and richer bowl history, but in the last 12 years the Aggies’ 10 bowl appearances is just behind BYU’s 11 and ahead of Utah’s nine (Utah was likely good enough to appear in a bowl in 2020, which would put them at 10 in the last 12 years, but the Utes didn’t play in a
