When the final whistle blew inside Maverik Stadium a couple of hours later, though, the scoreboard read 41-20 in favor of Utah State. Instead of falling to 3-8 on the season, the Aggies were 4-7 overall and .500 in Mountain West Conference play with a 3-3 record.

It takes a complete football team to win a championship. Iowa State is finding that out with each passing week. Seemingly left for dead in the heated Big 12 Con

The Aztecs made it a one-score contest again after Mikey Welsh caught a 67-yard pass to get San Diego State inside the Utah State 20, and SDSU quarterback Danny O’Neil scored on a 5-yard scramble with 1:01 to play, making it 29-21 with the extra point.

If a football team scores the first 13 points of a game and knocks the opposing team's quarterback out in the 1st half, it's perfectly acceptable to assume that team ended up winning the game. It's certainly reasonable to think maybe they lost but it was close.