{"id":5181,"date":"2017-09-01T16:51:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T21:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2018-08-20T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T21:28:10","slug":"know-your-enemy-utah-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/know-your-enemy-utah-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Enemy: Utah State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another season of Wisconsin Badgers football is upon us. Bucky\u2019s Boiz are set to start the 2017 campaign tonight against the Utah State Aggies. It\u2019s an 8 p.m. kickoff, airing nationally on ESPN. Wisconsin is a 27-point favorite.<\/p>\n

If you see any navy blue-clad (correction: “Aggie Blue”) fans at your tailgate tonight, they\u2019re probably visiting from Logan, Utah and using this game and the long weekend as excuses to visit our fair city. You may be forced to answer questions such as \u201cAre there any restaurants around here?\u201d and \u201cWhy are there so many one-way streets in Madison?\u201d<\/p>\n

But what else should you talk about? Here are a few quick ideas.<\/span>\n

Gary Andersen<\/h2>\n

Your conversations with visiting Aggies fans should begin (and probably end; you won\u2019t be talking to them for that<\/em> long) with our shared history of Gary Andersen betrayal.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the most recent former Wisconsin head football coach is also<\/em> the most recent former Utah State head football coach.<\/p>\n

Utah State had only one bowl victory in school history \u2014 the 1993 Las Vegas Bowl, which was their first bowl appearance<\/em> since 1961 \u2014 when Andersen was hired there in December 2008. But by his fourth season, he had turned things around. The Aggies went 11-2 in 2012, including a Famous Idaho Potato Bowl victory.<\/p>\n

The first of those two losses came in Madison. The No. 22-ranked Badgers squeaked out a 16-14 win over the underdog Aggies in a game that proved to be a turning point<\/a> for both programs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Andersen\u2019s success led to a contract extension<\/a> in October 2012, \u201censuring his stay at Utah State through the 2018 season,\u201d wrote\u00a0The Utah Statesman<\/em>. Andersen reiterated his commitment<\/a> to the Aggies at a Nov. 30 press conference.<\/p>\n

He left for Wisconsin<\/a> less than three weeks later.<\/p>\n

Two Decembers after that, Andersen abruptly departed Wisconsin<\/a> for Oregon State.<\/p>\n

Fast forward another two-plus seasons and Andersen has an ugly 6-19 record at Oregon State, including a 58-27 shellacking of a loss last week to Colorado State to begin his third campaign in Corvallis. #karma<\/a>?<\/span>\n

What\u2019s an Aggie anyway?<\/h2>\n

If you need more talking points tonight, how about discussing Utah State\u2019s nickname<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Established in 1888, the school<\/a> was granted university status in 1957 as Utah State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. That\u2019s a mouthful to say and to type, which is probably why even its own website<\/a> simply says \u201cUtah State University.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the agriculture part that spawned \u201cAggies,\u201d as it\u2019s short for Agriculturalists, which is a mouthful to spell. Before that they were sometimes called the \u201cFarmers,\u201d which is easy to say, spell and type.<\/span>\n

A brief history of 1890s Agriculturalists football<\/h2>\n

The first season in school history<\/a> was 1892. The term \u201cseason\u201d is used loosely here because it was only one game, a 12-0 victory against the University of Utah. The Agriculturalists had no coach. Maybe a time-traveling Gary Andersen had unexpectedly left?<\/p>\n

The second season wasn\u2019t until 1896, also only one game (a loss) but with a coach: somebody named \u201cProfessor Mayo,\u201d who was one-and-done. Time-traveling Gary Andersen in disguise?<\/p>\n

After a year off from playing one game per year, Aggies football became an annual thing in 1898. It became a multi-game annual thing in 1901.<\/span>\n

Atari and\u00a0Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s<\/h2>\n

Basically, Dick Cheney is to the University of Wisconsin what\u00a0Nolan Bushnell<\/a> is to Utah State University. Though Bushnell didn\u2019t actually graduate \u2014 not unlike how Cheney didn’t finish his doctoral studies at UW \u2014 he did attend<\/em> USU for a period of time. What else did Bushnell do? He co-founded Atari, Inc. and<\/em> solely founded Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s. Not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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