Utah State Aggies: Keys To The Season, Top Game, Top Transfer, Fun Stats
Utah State Aggies: Key To The 2022 Offense
Chill out on the turnovers.
The running game has to be more effective – averaging over four yards per carry would be nice – and the turnovers didn’t turn out to be that much of a make-or-break deal in most games, but the 23 giveaways were way too many.
The defense helped make up for them with 23 takeaways, but the Aggie O gave up the ball in seven games including all three of the losses.
There were three times when Utah State was -2 in turnover margin. Those were in all three of the losses.
Utah State Aggies: Key To The 2022 Defense
Keep on not breaking.
The defense gave up way too many first downs, and it got hit for way too many yards at strange times. However, the D did a decent job of holding.
Considering how great the Aggie O should be, giving up field goals isn’t that big a deal.
There were plenty of trips allowed inside the red zone, but Utah State only allowed offenses to come up with touchdowns 45% of the time – tenth best in college football.
How good was the red zone defense? It didn’t allow more than one touchdown when teams got inside the 20 over the last seven games.
Utah State Aggies: Key Player To The 2022 Season
DE Byron Vaughns, Jr.
Who’s going to pick up the slack for the loss of Nick Heninger? The former star end made 75 tackles with nine sacks and 21.5 tackles for loss, but he’s done, and the 6-4, 225-pound Vaughns has to be the new go-to guy in the backfield.
He made 43 tackles with four sacks and 10.5 tackles for loss last year, and now he has to do even more heavy lifting.
Utah State Aggies: Key Transfer
WR Brian Cobbs, Sr.
The offense makes the receivers almost as much as the other way around, but it still hurts to lose all the big-time producers who made last year so special.
Enter Cobbs, a 6-2, 205-pound former Maryland Terrapin who made 59 catches for 880 yards and two scores averaging 15 yards per catch in his four years. He’ll be a featured part of the attack right out of the gate.
Utah State Key Game To The 2022 Season
at Colorado State, Oct. 15
This is about to be a much, much better Colorado State team this year with head coach Jay Norvell coming over from Nevada to super-charge the program.
Utah State has won three straight in the series, but this time around it’s a midseason road game in the midst of a run of four away dates in six games.
The back half of the schedule, though, isn’t that bad. Win this, and there’s a good chance to go on a big run before closing out the regular season at Boise State.
Utah State Aggies: 2021 Fun Stats
– 1st Quarter Scoring: Opponents 106 – Utah State 62
– 4th Down Conversions: Utah State 16-of-30 (53%) – Opponents 5-of-20 (25%)
– Penalties: Opponents 113 for 1,046 yards – Utah State 86 for 763 yards
Offense, Defense Breakdown
Season Prediction, What Will Happen
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