Aggie Nation likely awaited Saturday's gridiron meetup between Utah State and Nevada with mild trepidation. On the one hand, the Wolf Pack were 1-7 entering that matchup. There's no way the Aggies would lose. But on the other, recent games like Hawaii, San Jose State and New Mexico lingered. Those were all anticipated as games USU could, and maybe should, win. Yet two were losses and the other an uncomfortably close win over a team that now sits at 3-6 itself.

Would the unthinkable happen? Could Utah State find a way to lose to a team vastly inferior on paper?

By the end of the first quarter, even the most pessimistic Aggie fan had put their worries to bed. Whatever faults have presented themselves amid Utah State's 1-3 run through late September to late October were hardly present again

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