There must be improvement, from the Aggies' perspective. They play Utah on Friday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium. The Utes opened their season with a 24-17 victory over Michigan.
"We need to clean up our tackling," said junior linebacker Nick Vigil, who had a team-high 13 against the Thunderbirds. "I thought we missed a lot, but overall I thought we did all right. We need to be a lot cleaner on our tackling and penalties next week."
Utah State was called for 11 penalties against Southern Utah. Back-to-back pass interference calls set up a Thunderbird field goal with four seconds left in the first half.