Monday Cooldown — The 2024 Season In Review | Sports
Every season must come to its conclusion and we’ve reached the end for the 2024 Utah State Football Aggies. From a chaotic start under an interim coach to a disappointing ending with Friday’s blown lead against Colorado State. The final 4-8 record is what will be put down in the history books with the most notable impact of this season being that it’s just the third time since 2011 that the Aggies have not gone to a bowl game. Long story short, it’ll be a forgotten season. Much like 2016 or 2020, this year will be chalked up to being an outlier, a departure from the norm. Since 2011, if you exclude this year and the 2016/2020 campaigns, Utah State would have a 90-56 overall record with five bowl game wins, four 10-win season, three Mountain West title game appearances and one conference title. Fans were already looking beyond this season, as evidenced by the mere 12,000 that showed up for USU’s Senior Day — considerably down from the sold-out Utah game, 20,000 for the UNLV matchup, or even the 17,000 that showed up for the Aggies FCS game against Robert Morris. It’s hard to watch a team go through