
Utah State's 46 points were the most ever scored in a Mountain West title game, and the most allowed in Aztecs coach Brady Hoke's two stints and four seasons at SDSU, which fell short on the brink of its first conference title since 2016. Texas transfer Byron Vaughns won the game's defensive MVP award while leading Utah State's dominant defensive effort in holding the Aztecs to 178 yards and no touchdowns in the first three quarters. Jordon Brookshire passed for 117 yards for San Diego State, which had its four-game winning streak snapped in the school’s most lopsided loss since a 35-point defeat at Ohio State in September 2013. The Aggies are likely to face Oregon State. 18 at SoFi Stadium, the Los Angeles Rams’ multibillion-dollar arena located about 12 miles northwest of the site of this victory at San Diego State’s temporary home. Utah State earned a berth in the inaugural LA Bowl on Dec.

We followed him here because we believed in him, and we're so proud of him.” He's been through a lot in his life, and we were there for that. “Me and Brandon have known him longer than most guys. “We're unbelievably proud of this man and what he's gone through,” Bonner said.

This surprisingly one-sided victory is the latest remarkable feat in the Aggies’ first season under a coach who moved 1,500 miles northwest for a fresh start after the death of his wife, Wendy, from breast cancer in 2019. Bonner and Bowling followed Anderson from Arkansas State to Utah State, which hadn’t won a league title since its final year in the WAC in 2012.
