I was at the game and here are my thoughts after reading a lot of comments:
1. Utah is not a bad team. Their defense is amazing, and they have some weapons on offense. Once they get the qb thing figured out I expect them to be good.
2. USU has a good football team, people outside of Logan just don't hear about it. We don't get the 3-4 minute nightly reports about our spring and fall camps. Outside of Tony Jones (SL Trib) we get next to no articles about our team (freaking dnews is still using our old logo). Therefore Utah and BYU fans just go on thinking that we still suck. Andersen has done an excellent job recruiting and putting a competitive team on the field.
3. The mentality around here has changed from Brent Guy's "Let's just hope we're close in the 4th" to Andersen's "We can compete with anybody".
4. We can play physical ball with the big boys. In years past we got dominated in the trenches. Thankfully those days are gone. I was watching Dave and Dave do their preseason predictions on both BYU and Utah (but not us of course) and when they got to the USU game one of them said, "USU just isn't big enough to compete with Utah in the trenches". Well if they did their homework they would have known that Utah's lines are not much bigger than ours.
5. Chuckie is as good as advertised.
I am looking forward to the Utah/BYU game next week. Everyone thinks that Utah will get killed. I think it will be a good game and it will definitely be BYU's toughest test so far this year (assuming they beat Weber State handily today). And I can't wait to see how we do against Wisconson next week. Andersen should have the boys ready to roll in that one.
