It’s refreshing to not be inventing reasons to be positive about this Utah State team. Most teams that end up starting the season 1-6 are on a crash-course for an historically-awful season with a head coach desperately trying to explain that “actually, our team is improving late in the season and is holding together well.” USU head coach Nate Dreiling does not have to conjure up talking points about why his Aggies are improving. Because they actually are. Utah State has now won three of its last four games, including a match in Wyoming, a place USU has struggled to get wins in even the best of years (see also, 2018). And while you can bring up the fact those opponents are a combined 9-24, that actually kind of helps prove the point a little. Nine weeks ago on the road against a now 3-8 Temple team (that recently fired its coach), the Aggies collapsed and lost by multiple touchdowns in an utterly humiliating showing. Cut to more recent weeks and teams with very similar records to the Owls are now getting plastered by what is only technically the same Utah State team. Here’s a look at some of the