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SALT LAKE CITY — Two weeks into the football season, it’s not hard to pick out the in-state team with the most swag and brag. Forget the 2-0 Utes, who narrowly averted losing in front of a crowd of 16,762 at Northern Illinois. Ignore the BYU Cougars, who reverted back to their 2017 selves in a loss to Cal.
The flavor of the week is Utah State, coming off a 60-13 thrashing of New Mexico State. It’s not just that they scored a lopsided win against an awful team. It’s that they also came close to beating then-No.