Southern Utah at Utah State

 
Series History: Utah State leads 2-0.
 
Last Meeting: Utah State beat Southern Utah 53-34 in 2009.
 
Coaches: Southern Utah’s Ed Lamb is 21-23 entering his fifth season with the Thunderbirds…Utah State’s Gary Anderson is 15-22 entering his fourth season with the Aggies. Anderson was Southern Utah’s head coach in 2003, finishing with a 4-7 overall record. Anderson was an assistant coach at Southern Utah from 1997-2003. He also served as an assistant at Idaho State and Northern Arizona in the Big Sky.
 
Notes: Southern Utah officially joined the Big Sky Conference on July 1. The Thunderbirds are coming off back-to-back 6-5 seasons. Southern Utah’s 2011 campaign included a 41-16 victory over UNLV of the Mountain West Conference…Utah State is coming off a 7-6 season in which it advanced to a bowl game for the first time since 1997…Southern Utah QB Brad Sorensen has completed 549 passes for 6,306 yards with 38 touchdown passes the past two seasons. He is a candidate for the Walter Payton Award, and was named the Big Sky preseason Offensive MVP…SUU has a Sagarin rating of 128. Utah State is 94.