Utah State defended Texas State better than any other team has all season, but special teams miscues and offensive impotence proved too much to overcome. Game Notebook: theaggship.com/game-notebook…

And the advanced stats, which I forgot to post last night. Extremely small sample size, but interesting all the same

Mendenhall on the two critical pass interference calls: “I’d be okay if I thought they were pass interference but I didn’t think either one was.”

Mendenhall says Texas State “maximized the substitution match” on the delay of game at the end of the game

Mendenhall says Eli Wood is limited with an injury, which allowed Utah State to involve Anthony Garcia more. Unclear why only one receiver can be involved at a time

Two weeks to address the offense and it produces less against what was the No. 115 scoring defense than it did nearly a month ago at Boise State. I just don’t know what this staff’s goal is with that side of the ball right now

Maybe the delay of game penalty wouldn't have ended up mattering, maybe he misses a 43-yarder too, but man is that a penalty Utah State would like to have back. You just cannot have so many procedural issues a year and a half into a tenure, and it's something new every week

Afrhookteh's 48-yard field goal try misses to the left, and Utah State falls three points short at Texas State, 20-17. The Aggies drop to 2-5 (1-2) on the season with Colorado State coming to town next Saturday

Anthony Garcia with a crazy catch, but he's out of bounds, and it'll be a 47-yard field goal try for Kian Afrookhteh to potentially send this one to overtime

Utah State takes its last timeout with 17 seconds on the clock after an unfortunate first-and-10 2-yard completion that stayed inbounds

That didn't look good right up until it did, Brosterhous finds Garcia to move the chains on fourth-and-6

Brosterhous had all the time in the world on third down, but couldn't connect with Anthony Garcia, and it'll be fourth-and-6 for the game from the USU 44 with 1:12 to play

Utah State buckles down to get a stop after the third-and-long pass interference extended this Texas State drive. Bobcats have to settle for a field goal, and Utah State has 1:56 to tie or win it trailing 20-17

That’s a brutal spot for that pass interference call. Not totally sure it was catchable, and not sure there was all that much contact either

I think Utah State should have Robert Anae call plays from increasingly unconventional places. We’ve seen the press box and the sidelines, but how about the concessions stand?

Brosterhous rolls out to hit Javen Jacobs in the flats on the two-point try, and we're all square in San Marcos with 8:07 to play, 17-17. What a strange game this has been.

It took half of the season, but Utah State has finally remembered that it has Anthony Garcia. Receptions of 8 and 17 yards on a drive that he caps with a 6-yard touchdown pass to Kaina Watson. The Aggies are within two of the lead, 17-15, with 8:07 to play