Look, I'm not here to tell anyone how to spend their money, but a Caesars Sportsbook bettor in New Jersey has placed $1,000 on Utah State to win the College Football Playoff this coming season. If the Aggies of the Mountain West shock the world, that would return $1 million for said bettor because Coach Blake Anderson's team is +100000 to win it all. So, let's take a quick look at the 2022 Aggies.
USU was a very good team in 2021, winning at No. 19 San Di ego State in an upset to claim the Mountain West Conference Championship Game and then beating Oregon State in the LA Bowl to finish 11-3 in Anderson's first season, tying a school record for wins. Anderson was one of 19 first-year head coaches at the FBS level in 2021 and was the only head coach to win nine or more games.
The Aggies were 1-5 in the shortened 2020 campaign under former coaches Gary Andersen and Frank Maile. Thus in 2021, Utah State became the first-ever FBS program to go from zero or one win to 11 or more wins in one season.
Logan Bonner was one of the top quarterbacks in the Mountain West as he set five school records with 3,628 passing yards, 36 touchdown passes, four touchdown passes in three straight games, four touchdown passes in six games in a season and 2.57 touchdown passes per games.