Following its 61-19 Mountain West home win against New Mexico this past weekend, Utah State football is nationally ranked for the first time since 2012 as it comes in at No. 18 in the Associated Press poll and 20th in the Amway Coaches Poll.
Utah State garnered 340 votes in this week's poll to be nationally ranked for the first time since 2012 when that Aggie team went 11-2 and set a school record for wins as it finished the year ranked 16th in the nation. USU also received 281 votes in this week's Coaches' Poll.
Overall, this is just the fourth Utah State team in school history to be nationally ranked in the AP poll joining the 1960, 1961 and 2012 teams.