Utah State, in conjunction with the Mountain West, released its full 2025 football schedule, finally putting dates and an order to the 12 opponents the Aggies were known to be playing this upcoming season. These will be the first set… Source link

LOGAN, Utah – Three home games during the first four weeks of the season highlights Utah State’s 2025 football schedule as the Mountain West announced dates for the upcoming conference slate. Utah State, who is entering its 13th season in the MW, will have its eight league games spread out over 12 weeks from Sept. 13 through Nov. 29. Utah State’s 2025 MW schedule will include home games against Air Force (9/13), San José State (10/18), Nevada (11/8) and Boise State (11/29), and road games against Hawai’i (10/11), New Mexico (10/25), UNLV (11/15) and Fresno State (11/22). Utah State will not play Colorado State, San Diego State and Wyoming during the 2025 season. Utah State will also have two byes during the year on the first weekend in October and the first weekend in November. Utah State opens the season with consecutive non-conference games as it hosts UTEP on Saturday, Aug. 30, and plays at Texas A&M on Saturday, Sept. 6. The Aggies and Miners will be meeting for the first time since the 2014 New Mexico Bowl and fourth time overall, while USU will be facing Texas A&M for the second time. Utah State begins its conference slate by hosting

LOGAN – Utah State could end up following in the footsteps of other college football programs that are heavily considering not holding public spring football scrimmages. Fears are that other schools are essentially spying on spring scrimmages and then poaching players they scout during the public showcase by incentivizing them to enter the transfer portal and join their program through pay-for-play NIL deals. It’s a practice that is theoretically against the rules, but nothing has stopped anyone from doing it. “There are rules that are supposed to be governing tampering, but they’re not enforced,” Utah State football coach Bronco Mendenhall said during his national signing day press conference on Wednesday. “They’re not enforced effectively and they’re having very little impact on the decisions made. So tampering is widespread and it is occurring. And so am I concerned about having an open scrimmage for opponents to show up or the national landscape to send personnel here to watch that and then simply buy our players? Certainly.” The possibility of losing players as a result of putting them on display for poachers to scout is putting spring football showcases at risk of becoming an endangered species. Last Saturday, Nebraska head coach Matt

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez issued a statement Wednesday reiterating the conference’s commitment to remaining viable when five members leave for a rebuilt Pac-12 next year. “A good deal of speculation has recently been offered by various media outlets regarding the current and future status of the Mountain West, and other collegiate athletic conferences,” Nevarez said. “While I cannot and will not comment on other leagues, I can share some facts about the Mountain West.” Air Force, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, Wyoming and Hawaii have executed a grant of rights agreement that binds the schools together through the conference via television rights from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2032. Those seven schools also are “successfully executing a future membership strategy” that will ensure the stability of the Mountain West through June 30, 2026, and beyond, Nevarez said, and pursuing a media rights agreement that would begin July 1, 2026. Hawaii will become a member in all sports starting in 2026-27 after having been a football-only member. Also in 2026, UTEP joins as a full member and Northern Illinois as a football-only member. UC Davis and Grand Canyon are joining in some