Column: Can’t help but think USU should be 8-4 on gridiron

Regardless of whether they get invited to a bowl game, I still think it’s been a relatively encouraging season for the Aggies on the gridiron.

Not many college football teams can say they used 25 players who started at least one game for the first time at the FBS level and double their win output from the previous season. Not much was expected out of Utah State outside of the program heading into the 2017 campaign.

That being said, I can’t help but point out the Aggies should have finished the regular season with an 8-4 record. Blowing fourth-quarter leads to Wyoming and Air Force were bitter pills to swallow. The bottom line is this program continues to struggle in games that come down to…