First-year Utah State head coach Gary Andersen has kept spirits up by continuing to assert to his 2-6 team that goals which were approachable last winter can still be met.

USU will prepare for a long trip to Hawaii — longer than every other road-trip mileage, combined, to this point, in fact — by trying to forget that it has lost three of the last four games.

"We have a great opportunity to do some things in the next few weeks that haven't been done here in a long time," Andersen said Nov. 2. "We can win more WAC games than they've won for a long time, we can have a winning season playing at home, which hasn't been done here for a long time."

For starters, USU is 1-3 in the WAC and could reasonably go 4-4. ...More