Utah State rallies to top Washington State in Pac-12 home opener | Sports
LOGAN – Call it ugly. Call it gritty. Call it anything you like, but you also have to call Utah State’s 17-16 result against Washington State a win. Despite a rather unhealthy number of mistakes and a 16-3 halftime deficit, the Aggies rallied to claim victory in their Pac-12 home opener. When Utah State’s players and coaches went into the locker room at halftime, the optics (and stats) of the game looked bad. So much so that a few boos were heard from the home crowd, displeased with the performance in the first half. The Aggies only gained 103 yards on offense, with just a singular scoring drive that required a career-long 48-yard field goal from Kian Afroohkteh to squeeze points from. On defense, the Cougars — a team averaging only 19 points per game this season — had managed to score 16 in the opening half with 193 yards of total offense. Mendenhall didn’t speak much to his team during the break. Only one sentence by his account (when asked directly what that sentence was, he wouldn’t offer a quotation, but did say that he cursed twice, a rare occurrence according to him). The rest of Mendenhall’s staff only
