Utah State football will go into its bowl game ranked 23rd nationally in the Amway Coaches poll with 125 votes. USU is also the second team listed among others receiving votes in The Associated Press poll to rank 27th in the nation with 86 votes.
For Utah State, this is the sixth-straight week it has been ranked in the Amway Coaches poll as it climbed as high as 13th in the nation. USU was also ranked four-straight weeks in the AP poll, getting as high as 14th in the nation, before dropping out two weekends ago.
Prior to this season, the last time Utah State was nationally ranked was in 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.