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 – The Collegiate Sports Video Association named Bill Garren, Assistant Athletics Director for Video Operations at Utah State University, the 2024-2025 Mountain West Conference Video Coordinator of the Year. Garren was selected by his peers in the Mountain West to receive the Conference Video Coordinator of the Year honor. He is now a finalist for the prestigious Bob Matey National Video Coordinator of the Year award, which will be announced at the annual CSVA banquet on May 21st, 2025, in Houston, Texas. The Bob Matey award is presented to the Video Coordinator who displays innovation, determination, perseverance and technical skill as portrayed by the late Bob Matey, legendary Video Coordinator from Texas A&M. Bill Garren is in his 19th year as the Director of Video Operations for the Utah State athletics department and was promoted to Assistant Athletics Director for Video Operations in 2016. Garren is responsible for managing all aspects of athletic video and editing within the athletics department, which includes training and supervising a staff of student assistants to shoot all the football practices and games. His responsibilities also include the day-to-day operations of the video room, managing the digital TV needs, overseeing all Mountain West live
LOGAN – Bronco Mendenhall’s first signing class at Utah State is in, at least the bulk of it, as the football program introduced a total of 36 players on national signing day. Mendenhall also spoke with the media for roughly a half hour discussing these recruits and several other key topics around roster construction and the nature of recruiting and retention in modern college football. Of the three dozen announced incoming players — not including those announced in the early signing period — there are 12 athletes from high schools, seven from junior colleges and 17 transfers from four-year institutions. Here are all of the incoming players announced today, organized by which of those three sectors they are coming from. High School Commits Name Pos. HT WT Hometown (High School) Malakai Alofipo WR 6-2 180 St. George, UT (Crimson Cliffs) Abe Jager CB 6-2 170 Lehi, UT (Lehi) Chris Joe ILB 6-3 205 Brentwood, CA (Liberty) Tydon Jones ILB 6-3 205 Garland, UT (Bear River) Kaleb Mitchell WR 6-6 185 Dallas, TX (First Baptist Academy) Ty Olsen WR 6-2 190 San Diego, CA (Lincoln) Cooper Rodarte ILB 6-2 225 Enumclaw, WA (Enumclaw) Joaxton Scoffield ILB 6-4 210 Roy, UT (Roy)
LOGAN, Utah – The Mountain West announced its all-academic teams Thursday and Utah State had 91 student-athletes recognized from its fall sports of cross country, football, soccer and volleyball. Of its 91 academic all-MW selections, Utah State had 26 student-athletes from football, along with 20 from women’s cross country, 18 from soccer, 14 from volleyball and 13 from men’s cross country. Men’s cross country, women’s cross country and volleyball all had the most honorees within its sport in the Mountain West, while football and soccer both had the fifth most. Fresno State led the MW with 97 all-academic honorees, followed by New Mexico (92), Utah State (91), Boise State (90), UNLV (80), Colorado State (70), Wyoming (63), Nevada (62), San José State (56), San Diego State (54) and Air Force (53). Hawai’i, which is a football-only member, had 24 all-academic honorees, while Colorado College, a soccer-only member, had 21 honorees. Nine of Utah State’s 91 student-athletes from its fall sports to earn academic all-MW honors carried a 4.00 grade point average, including four from women’s cross country in graduate Hannah Davidson (master’s in public health), senior Emma Thornley (kinesiology), sophomore Meredith Sanford (mechanical engineering) and freshman Allie Black (accounting). Men’s cross
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
LOGAN, Utah – New Utah State head football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced his coaching and support staff for the 2025 season on Wednesday. Mendenhall announced 23 hires, including his coordinators, 10 position coaches, six analysts and six support staff members. Of the 23 coaches and support staff announced, 17 have previous working experience with Mendenhall at BYU, Virginia or New Mexico, while 10 staff members played for him at BYU or Virginia. Kevin McGiven – Offensive Coordinator McGiven brings 24 years of collegiate coaching experience to Utah State, including 16 seasons coordinating NCAA Division I offenses. The 2025 campaign will be his third season working with Mendenhall, including two years together at BYU in 2003 and 2004. McGiven has been part of three conference championship squads and has helped six teams to bowl eligibility, along with two more advancing to the FCS playoffs. The 2025 campaign is McGiven’s third stint at USU. He spent the 2013-14 seasons as the Aggies offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach and the 2009 campaign as its assistant head coach and quarterbacks coach. During the 2013-14 seasons, McGiven helped the Aggies to a 19-9 record, including a 13-3 conference mark, an appearance in the inaugural Mountain West
It’s a yearly ritual at this point. The transfer portal has taken its pound of flesh and Utah State, like all teams, must now figure out what damage was done if anything is to be figured out come spring ball. How much production from the 2024 Aggies was lost to the portal or to graduation? That’s the question to be answered here, with the goal of looking forward to who may end up being the ones to fill in all of the holes left behind. Offensive Snaps/Production Lost Snaps Played — 84.5% Pass Yards — 72.8% Rush Yards — 71.5% Receiving Yards — 87.3% Scrimmage TDs — 76.0% A lot of the losses here were expected. Six of the more productive players on offense, including Spencer Petras and offensive linemen Wyatt Bowles, Falepule Alo and Cole Motes, are graduating. Jalen Royals was also very much expected to declare for the NFL Draft. But the lion’s share of what would have been key returners have now decided to leave. Rahsul Faison, Teague Andersen, Aloali’i Maui, Grant Page, Otto Tia, Will Monney, Robert Briggs, the list is pretty extensive and brutal. By the end of it all you’re looking at zero, literally
LOGAN — Former Deputy Athletic Director Jerry Bovee recently filed a lawsuit against Utah State University for violating state law and its own university policy when it terminated him in July of 2024. This is the second former athletic department employee to file a civil lawsuit against the university in about a month. Bovee filed the lawsuit on Dec. 27 in First District Court, claiming damages of more than $300,000 and asking for a jury trial. From August to December 2023, Bovee alleges his direct supervisor, USU Athletic Director Diana Sabau, removed a number of job duties and undermined him which led him to believe “she was trying to minimize his role and move him out of his position,” according to the suit. Bovee complained to Human Resources about his supervisor, Sabau, multiple times between December 2023 to July 2024. In one alleged instance, Sabau yelled at former Senior Woman Administrator Amy Crosbie and Bovee for hiring an assistant coach without asking for her approval, according to the complaint. “Sabau’s conduct during this meeting was so abusive that Crosbie began to cry, which Sabau mocked,” the lawsuit states. Later, Sabau threatened, ”there will be an investigation” and that “changes were
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