After a week of hype following a historically dominant performance against Idaho State, Utah State’s self-image took a major hit with its 39-21 defeat to Air Force. The Aggies were never really competitive, not scoring until they were already down 29-0. The biggest takeaway of Friday’s game though wasn’t Air Force’s dominance or even quick start. It was the substitution made at the 11:11 mark of the second quarter. Head coach Blake Anderson opted to bench Cooper Legas in favor of true freshman McCae Hillstead. The decision was puzzling on the outside but in hindsight the benching of Legas seems like it was long in the making. “It’s been under consideration since day one of fall camp,” Anderson said of swapping Legas for Hillstead. “Every day the evaluating how we were, how Coop was progressing, how McCae was progressing, Levi (Williams) how he was progressing. How they played last week (against Idaho State) when they got their snaps. What our practices were like every day. I wanted to give Coop every opportunity to settle in and just get into a confident place and get to a point where he’d pull the trigger when he saw something that he knew was