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Sitting in front of a camera for a zoom press conference after Utah State’s 19-point loss to New Mexico Saturday afternoon, Aggies running back Miles Davis had his head in his hands, trying to explain what went wrong. “We just got to make plays,” Davis said. “Every position got to make plays. We all got to do our 11th.” He repeated the line amid other questions, even noting he felt like he sounded like a broken record. But there isn’t really a better way to put it. Utah State has “got to make plays” where right now, they’ve struggled to do so in recent outings. The Aggies have lost three of their last four games, an exact flip of the 3-1 start they began the season on. The reasons for Utah State’s sudden case of the L’s are not new. They’ve been present in every game (with a small exception being the McNeese game, but they’ve been there in all FBS matchups). The difference in the wins is that problems were either masked or simply overcome by great performances in other aspects (Bryson Barnes is responsible for a lot of the latter). While there are plenty of things that could
It’d be difficult to find an area of the gridiron that you could say Utah State played well in during a 33-14 loss to New Mexico. Be it offense, defense special teams, or any other aspect of football, the Aggies struggled to make it work for them. The first defensive possession went about as well as you can reasonably expect when entering with the 127th-ranked defense. New Mexico gained 30 yards, but were forced to punt just past mid-field four minutes into the game. And that’s about how long it took before things started going more south than Utah State already was in Albuquerque. USU’s first offensive possession started on its own four-yard line and went immediately backward with a one-yard loss on a run by former Lobo running back Javen Jacobs. Two incomplete passes later and the Aggies punted. Current New Mexico running back D.J. McKinney then took that punt and returned it 49 yards for the first score of the game. “There was a tackle that was missed when the tackle was being missed the outside defender acted as if the tackle was going to be made cut his angle and then the tackle was broken and he
LOGAN, Utah — Utah State soccer (7-5-5, 4-1-3 MW) earned a commanding win Thursday night at Chuck & Gloria Bell Field in Logan, defeating Nevada 6-1. All six of Utah State’s goals came at the feet of underclassmen, led by the first-career brace for sophomore forward Mia Mullenmeister. Despite controlling the first half to the tune of a 9-3 advantage in shots for Utah State, just one of the game’s seven total goals were scored in the first 45 minutes. A perfectly-placed pass in the 32nd minute by freshman forward Kunie Hirai split a pair of Wolf Pack defenders and found fellow freshman forward Hadli Barrera, who capitalized with a right-footer into the back of the net. Just minutes after the halftime break, Mullenmeister found her first goal of the night when a misplayed ball by Nevada’s keeper set Mullenmeister up to turn and shoot on an open net to make it 2-0. Nevada’s lone goal of the night came in the 54th minute, but was quickly followed by Mullenmeister’s second goal in the 58th minute, as she cleaned up on a deflected penalty kick to score and give USU a 3-1 advantage. In the 68th minute, Hirai sent
LOGAN, Utah – Utah State volleyball survived a five-set thriller against San Diego State (25-16, 19-25, 25-21, 24-26, 15-8) here Thursday night inside the Wayne Estes Center to give head coach Rob Neilson his 100th career victory. Utah State remained perfect in Mountain West Play as it improved to 9-0 in league action and 12-7 overall as it was USU’s 10th straight win. San Diego State falls to 11-9 on the season and 6-3 in MW action. Set One Utah State took control of the first set with an early 10-4 lead and never looked back. USU extended its advantage to eight points at 19-11 and coasted to the 25-16 win. Sophomore opposite Loryn Helgesen paced the Aggies with six kills on eight attacks. The Aggies hit .393 in the opening set and held the Aztecs to a .080 hitting percentage. Set Two Utah State carried the momentum from the first set into the second and held an early 9-5 advantage. With USU leading 13-10, San Diego State responded with an 8-0 run. USU never recovered as the Aztecs notched the 25-19 win. Utah State hit negative .059 in the set and SDSU hit .179. Set Three San Diego State used
LAS VEGAS – The Mountain West Conference announced its preseason men’s basketball all-conference teams and predicted order of finish Thursday morning, with Utah State being picked to finish second while junior guard Mason Falslev earned a spot on the preseason all-MW team. Falslev, a native of Benson, Utah, is the league’s top returner in points (15.0), rebounds (6.3) and steals (2.32) per game, along with field goal percentage (.497). He also ranks third among returners in assists per game (3.7) from last season. In 2024-25, Falslev earned all-Mountain West second team accolades, while he was named the Mountain West Player of the week four times, and the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week twice. As a team, Utah State was picked by the league’s media to finish second in the preseason poll. This is the team’s highest preseason ranking since 2019-20, when the team was picked first. The Aggies are coming off of a 26-8 campaign in 2024-25, in which they went 15-5 in Mountain West play to finish third in the league standings and earn an NCAA Tournament bid for the sixth time in the past seven years. San Diego State, which finished fifth in the standings
If you just looked at the yardage totals and basic efficiency metrics from Utah State’s game against San Jose State, you’d be forgiven for guessing wrong which team ended up taking home victory on Saturday. San Jose State had 534 yards to Utah State’s 461. The Spartans averaged 6.9 yards per play to the Aggies’ 6.6. SJSJ had a far better ground game (7.2 yards per carry to 3.4), had more tackles for loss (nine to one), sacks (three to zero), and a better third down conversion rate (52.9% to 33.3%). And yet, Utah State was the one sprinting onto the field in a victorious fervor after a batted-down Hail Mary pass from SJSU. Resiliant Aggies make key plays to beat SJSU Utah State head coach Bronco Mendenhall has harped on what he calls playing “in context.” It was something Utah State didn’t do the week prior in Hawaii during the eventual 44-26 defeat. “Going into last week, I think we were playing stretches of quality football and have from the beginning. But we also have realized that there are situations, or what I call contexts, that we weren’t playing as precisely or specifically to those contexts,” Mendenhall said. “So
LOGAN – Utah State defeated Seattle by a score of 88-76 in a Saturday afternoon exhibition that marked the unofficial beginning of Aggie basketball season. The result of the game won’t go down in any record books, but it serves as an important jumping-off point for the team as it looks to compete for a Mountain West title and a return to the NCAA Tournament for a seventh time in eight seasons as a program. The two teams played a fully competitive game, with back-and-forth scoring, a coaches challenge late in the game, and some situational full court pressing by both teams. The two sides even agreed (beforehand) to play an extra 10-minute period after the conclusion of regulation to get more time to develop players in a game situation. This won’t be a full narrative re-telling of the afternoon’s events. Rather, it’ll focus on a few key themes from the team and a player-by-player analysis, breaking down how each member of the team did in their time on the court. Game Recap To be brief, as this whole section will be, the flow of the game essentially boiled down to Utah State taking control and Seattle getting the score
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On fourth down and mere inches to go, San Jose State lined up to go for it. With four minutes to go in the fourth quarter, the Spartans needed points and weren’t settling for a punt. Utah State needed a stop to preserve its 27-25 lead. Any kind of points would put the Aggies in a rather precarious situation. Perhaps more nerve-wracking, in a very similar scenario earlier in the game — a 3rd & 1 early in the third quarter — the Spartans went for it and broke a 66-yard touchdown run. But Utah State’s coaching staff, with full confidence in their players, called the exact same defensive play. SJSU quarterback Walker Eget took the snap and handed the ball to running back Steve Chavez-Soto — the same man who ran in the 66-yarder earlier — only to have the freshman back slowed by USU linebacker John Miller and wrestled to the ground by safety Brevin Hamblin for no gain. Turnover on downs. Aggie ball with victory fully in its offense’s control. Big 4th Down stop by the Defense!! Aggies take over on downs!📺@CBSSportsCFB pic.twitter.com/QHPMUZmZid — USU Football (@USUFootball) October 18, 2025 Utah State’s defense came to play the entire night. In
