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Texas A&M vs. Utah State: Score, live updates of non-conference game from Kyle Field originally appeared on The Sporting News
Texas A&M had a successful season opener last week.
The Aggies now want to keep generating momentum in preparation for next week’s huge game at Notre Dame. A&M is back in action at Kyle Field Saturday morning to take on another set of Aggies – the Aggies of Utah State.
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A&M (1-0) is coming off a 42-24 win against UTSA, as quarterback Marcel Reed threw for 289 yards and four touchdowns. But it was also a breakout game in the debut of new Aggie wide receivers KC Concepcion and Mario Craver, both offseason transfers.
Concepcion caught a TD pass and had A&M’s opening score by returning a punt 80 yards for a TD. Craver was the Aggies’ top receiver with six catches for 122 yards and two TDs.
A&M’s defense, after giving up a 75-yard TD run on the opening play of the second half which cut the Aggies’ lead to 21-17, then put the clamps on the Roadrunners, forcing six straight punts. The final score by UTSA came in the closing seconds.
Utah State (1-0) also won its season-opener last week, 28-16, against UTEP in the first game under new coach Bronco Mendenhall. Quarterback Bryson Barnes threw for 233 yards and a TD, and running back Miles Davis had nearly 150 yards of total offense with a rushing TD.
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– Live from Kyle Field in College Station, Texas A&M’s Aggies attempt to move to 2-0 when they take on Utah State’s Aggies, who are also 1-0.
Aug. 30 UTSA W 42-24
Sept. 6 Utah State
Sept. 13 at Notre Dame
Sept. 27 Auburn
Oct. 4 Mississippi State
Oct. 11 Florida
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Oct. 18 at Arkansas
Oct. 25 at LSU
Nov. 8 at Missouri
Nov. 15 South Carolina
Nov. 22 Samford
Nov. 28 at Texas
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As the Utah football team looks to keep its momentum rolling through a Week 2 matchup against Cal Poly, two of its commits in the 2026 class have also made strong impressions early on in their respective high school seasons.
At least, according to the latest individual rankings from 247Sports, which were released Thursday. The recruiting site has updated ratings for the top 247 players in the 2026 class, and a pair of Utah pledges have received major boosts after the first few weeks of the season.
Highly-touted offensive tackle prospect Kelvin Obot, who’s been committed to the Utes since July, has been upgraded from the No. 89 player in the class to the No. 62 recruit in the nation while holding onto his four-star grade. The 6-foot-5 Fruitland, Idaho, product is also the No. 6 offensive tackle in the class and remains the top-ranked recruit from the state of Idaho — a designation he’s had for a majority of his recruitment process.
Obot was Utah’s only four-star recruit in its 2026 class before Lone Peak High School (Utah) wide receiver Jaron Pula decided to flip from UCLA to Utah in early July. Jaron made the call alongside his brother, Kennan Pula, giving the Utes quite the tandem at wide receiver for the future.
Since that move, Jaron has settled in nicely at his new home, Lone Peak High School (American Fork, Utah), after spending three years at Timpview High School (Provo, Utah).
In his first game with his new team, Jaron hauled in five catches for 64 yards and two touchdowns in a 49-14 blowout victory for Lone Peak over Crimson Cliffs High School (Washington, Utah) on Aug. 15. He followed up with six receptions for 120 yards and a score the ensuing week against Orem High School, leading Lone Peak to a 34-21 win on Aug. 22.
Pula’s hot start to his senior season has catapulted him into the top 247 players in the 2026 class. After previously coming in as the No. 452 player in the country, Jaron’s the No. 246 player in the class and the No. 36 wide receiver, and the No. 5 player from the state of Utah.
Utah’s 17-player class checks in as the No. 50-ranked class in the country and No. 11 in the 16-team Big 12 on 247Sports.
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Coming off an exhilarating start to the season, Utah will look to keep its momentum rolling when it hosts Cal Poly at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday.
The Utes enter their home opener off the heals of a dominant performance on both sides of the ball against UCLA to kick off the 2025 regular season with a statement win, on the road, against a power conference opponent.
Junior quarterback Devon Dampier stole the spotlight from UCLA’s Nico Iamaleava in his Utah debut, as the New Mexico transfer scored three touchdowns, threw just four incompletions, wasn’t sacked and led his team in rushing yards (87) while guiding the Utes to a 43-10 victory over the Bruins.
“I feel like we’re clicking on all cylinders today,” Dampier said after the game. “We played football at our best today and [we have to] continue to stack the days. There’s a lot we can learn from and continue to get better.”
Dampier and company will look to stack their Week 1 showing with another impressive outing against a Mustangs team that’s coming off a 3-8 campaign in 2024, and one that’s made considerable renovations on the offensive side of the ball.
Year three of the Paul Wuff era in San Luis Obispo, California, has gotten off on a positive note, as the Mustangs enter Week 2 following a 41-17 victory over San Diego in which Cal Poly totaled 469 total yards of offense and saw Pitt transfer quarterback Ty Dieffenbach throw for 263 yards and two touchdowns in his debut with his new team. Redshirt senior wide receiver Michael Briscoe had seven catches for 110 yards, while redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jordan Garrison had four receptions for 90 yards.
Both teams will check into Saturday’s game looking to go 2-0 after stellar Week 1 performances. ESPN’s advanced analytics indicate the Utes should be considered heavy favorites going into Week 2, as the site’s SP+ ratings give Utah a 46-point advantage over Cal Poly, while its matchup predictor has the Utes with a 99% win probability rate.
Our prediction: Utah 48, Cal Poly 10
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Kickoff: Saturday, 10:45 a.m. MDT
Venue: Kyle Field (Capacity: 102,733)
TV: SEC Network
Radio: Aggie Sports Network (KZNS 1280 The Zone)/Sirius XM Ch. 382.
Series: Utah State trails, 0-1.
For Utah State: The Aggies are coming off a season-opening 28-16 win against UTEP at home, the first win of the Bronco Mendenhall era.
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Utah State was a little hit-and-miss in the game, strong in the first half in all phases, with a real slowdown on offense in the second half. Even with that, though, the Aggies handily defeated the Miners.
Utah State showed considerable growth defensively and teased a talented special teams unit as well. And when on, the offense moved well, with quarterback Bryson Barnes seeming to have a good handle of the new system.
For Texas A&M: The Aggies, the nationally known ones, are ranked No. 19 in the country and picked up a season-opening 42-24 win at home against UTSA last weekend. Texas A&M QB Marcel Reed was excellent in the victory, throwing for nearly 300 yards and four touchdowns.
Texas A&M is in its second season under Mike Elko, and won eight games last season. The expectation in College Station is always higher than that, although ESPN’s FPI projects the Aggies to win seven or eight games.
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There should be two lines of thought for Saturday’s game.
What does Utah State need to do to pull off the unprecedented upset?
What does Utah State need to do to show improvement from Week 1 to Week 2?
On the first front, there are keys to every major upset. Utah State will need to win the turnover battle. Getting a few extra possessions would go a long way.
USU also needs to shorten the game. More time on the clock means more possessions for Texas A&M and Reed, which will likely mean more points on the board. Utah State needs to have an effective run game, be it with running back Miles Davis and Javen Jacobs or quarterback Barnes.
Some elite special teams play won’t hurt either. A special teams touchdown or excellent punting (winning the field position battle), would set up the Aggies to pull off the groundbreaking upset.
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As for what Utah State needs to do to improve from Week 1, limiting penalties (even small ones) would be notable. Better protection of Barnes would also be a step in the right direction, after UTEP sacked the Aggie quarterback six times last weekend.
A more effective — consistent — rushing attack would engender optimism about a group of running backs who’ve been described as the strength of the team. And more pressure on the quarterback wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Marcel Reed, sophomore, quarterback, Texas A&M:
Texas A&M quarterback Marcel Reed (10) talks with ESPN’s Holly Rowe after beating LSU 38-23 in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024, in College Station, Texas. | Sam Craft
The outcome of Saturday’s game will likely fall on the shoulders of Reed. The sophomore from Tennessee had an up-and-down freshman season for Texas A&M, but he showed flashes of greatness.
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Against UTSA, Reed was excellent. He completed nearly 65% of his pass attempts for 289 yards and four touchdowns. He also rushed for a team-high 39 yards, proving the engine for Texas A&M’s offense.
If Reed plays like he did against the Roadrunners this Saturday, Utah State will be in for a long day. If he reverts back to how he played — at times — as a freshman last season, the Aggies have a shot to pull off the shocker.
Reed has immense talent. He was a four-star prospect coming out of high school and a top 20 QB prospect nationally.
That type of player has the chance to be special. Utah State has to hope that he isn’t special Saturday.
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“You always look for relative points of reference or realistic points of reference. Fun to watch UTSA, I think they do a nice job. And it’s a really a helpful game for us. Liked their plan, they did a really nice job. Obviously, the game went Texas A&M’s way, but it was very competitive for a long time. Any time you play an opponent, you look for what worked and see if you could replicate, see if those matchups might be similar.” — Utah State coach Bronco Mendenhall
Utah State head coach Bronco Mendenhall watches as the Aggies play UTEP in the second half Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, in Logan, Utah. | Eli Lucero/Herald Journal
“Known Bronco for a long time. Just following his career, not as much personally. Obviously a tremendously successful head coach, did a great job at BYU. Coached against him when he was at UVA when I was the defensive coordinator at Wake Forest. Have always followed his program(s) from afar. This will be the first time going against him (as a head coach). … I think he (Mendenhall) is a tough hard-minded head coach and his teams show that. There is a blue-collar toughness to how they play. They play extremely hard, physical and they are very disciplined.” — Texas A&M coach Mike Elko
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Utah State: vs. Air Force, Saturday, Sept. 13, at 7:45 p.m.
Texas A&M: at No. 9 Notre Dame, Saturday, Sept. 13, at 5:30 p.m.
Sept. 6 — at Texas A&M
Sept. 13 — Air Force
Sept. 20 — McNeese State
Sept. 27 — at Vanderbilt
Oct. 11 — at Hawaiʻi
Oct. 17 — San José State
Oct. 25 — at New Mexico
Nov. 8 — Nevada
Nov. 15 — at UNLV
Nov. 22 — at Fresno State
Nov. 29 — Boise State
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The Bears will have two important recruits on hand for their home opener against Texas Southern.
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It has almost been forgotten that the University of Utah, now a regular top-25 program, was once an average football team, at best. It was that way for decades, and nobody on The Hill seemed to really care, either. There was one man who changed all that.
Ron McBride. If there was no Ronnie Mac, there would have been no Pac-12, no Big 12, no Urban Meyer, no Kyle Whittingham, no unbeaten seasons, no Sugar Bowl or Fiesta Bowl wins, no conference championships. He was the bridge that led to all of that.
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And to think he was turned down for the head coaching job twice before he landed it.
“He really put Utah football back on the map,” Whittingham told Yahoo recently. “Coach Mac was responsible for the resurgence of Utah football.”
And that is why Utah will officially induct McBride into its Ring of Honor in Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday.
McBride, a career assistant to that point, became Utah’s head coach in 1990 and proceeded to turn it into a winner. He raised the program to a different level. He got things ready for Meyer, who took it up another notch to national prominence, and Whittingham, who kept it there and built on it. Utah has since become a brand name in college football, something that was once unthinkable.
He got things ready for Meyer, who took it up another notch to national prominence, and Whittingham, who kept it there and built on it. Utah has since become a brand name in college football, something that was once unthinkable.
Before Ronnie Mac came along, the Utes were almost perfectly mediocre. It was an uncanny effort of sustained mediocrity. They finished the 1950s with a won-lost record of 54-44-4; they survived the 1960s with a 53-48-1 record; they endured the 1970s with a 44-67 record; they staggered through the 1980s with a 54-57-3 record. After 40 years, they had a cumulative record of 205 wins, 216 losses, eight ties — or an average of 5.1 wins per season. They went through head coaches like office temps — two in the ’50s, three in the ’60s, three in the ’70s, three in the ’80s.
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“The bottom line is that (the Utes) are an enigma,” said Utah’s athletic director at the time, Chris Hill. He said this in the fall of 1990 — McBride’s first year.
No one could figure out how a school with the size, location and resources of Utah couldn’t at least play better than .500 football. Not even Jim Fassel, 29-33 in five seasons, could solve the problem, and all he did was go on to take the New York Giants to the Super Bowl after Utah fired him. Wayne Howard, one of Utah’s most successful coaches, once told close friends, “This place is jinxed! It’s impossible to win here. I don’t know what it is.”
So along came Coach Mac, who had been an assistant coach for 25 years at this point and seemed destined to remain such. He applied for Utah’s head coaching job in 1982 and 1985 and was denied both times. He interviewed for the job again in 1990 and was hired. But he was dismayed to discover during the interview process that the Utes were content with mediocrity.
As Mac told the Deseret News in 2011, “The guys who were doing the hiring told me, ‘We just want to be competitive and we don’t want to be embarrassed by BYU. If we just finish in the middle of the conference and we’re respectable, you can stay as long as you want.’ Expectations were not very high. Basketball was carrying things, and football just needed to be respectable.”
BYU coach LaVell Edwards and Utah coach Ron McBride greet each other before a game at Rice-Eccles Stadium at the University of Utah, Friday, November 24, 2000. | JOHANNA WORKMAN, DNEWS
Mac’s response: “That’s not the way it’s going to be. We’re going to beat BYU and win championships and go to bowl games.”
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In Year 2, Mac’s team won seven games and lost five, marking only the 10th time in 28 years the Utes had a winning record. In Year 3, the Utes went to their first bowl game in three decades. In Year 4, they were 7-6 and played in another bowl game. In Year 5, they were 10-2, ranked eighth in the nation and beat USC in the Freedom Bowl — their first bowl win since 1964.
In 13 seasons, Ronnie Mac’s teams had a record of 88-63, won two conference championships and beat BYU six times. He revived the rivalry, which had seen the Utes lose 16 of the previous 18 games against BYU before he took charge.
Mac was, above all, a master recruiter. The Utes had had only three players taken in the NFL draft in the previous eight years. Under McBride, 21 players were drafted, including future NFL stars Jordan Gross, Jamal Anderson, Luther Elliss, Steve Smith, and Kevin and Andre Dyson.
He was a master recruiter because players loved him. The players loved him because he was warm and humorous and charming and enthusiastic and positive with everyone — fans, coaches, players, administrators. There might be no one who has made more friends in football than Ron McBride.
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He disarms everyone; he loves everyone; he makes everyone around him feel good. He has a special bond and rapport with Black and Polynesian people. A non-Latter-day Saint, he was among the first coaches to embrace the missionary program and encouraged Latter-day Saint players to serve missions while also holding their scholarships while they were gone. Almost no one was doing that at the time.
“I wanted to be a positive influence in the LDS community,” he said years ago. “I wanted to support the kids going on missions.”
Mac is a people person and football provided a means to meet and interact with thousands. A native Californian, he began coaching in 1965, and for the next six decades he coached 13 different schools and pro clubs (he served three separate gigs at Utah, which always had a strong pull on him), and that’s not counting all the volunteer jobs and clinics he had along the way.
“I wanted to be a positive influence in the LDS community. I wanted to support the kids going on missions.”
former Utah coach Ron McBride on recruiting Latter-day Saint players
One month shy of his 86th birthday, he participated in a seven-day clinic for three high schools in Maui this summer. He still trains players in the offseason. As recently as 2022, he was a volunteer assistant at a local high school.
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His influence has infused the local college football scene. To wit: the current Utah coaching staff. He hired Whittingham as a defensive coach out of Idaho State. Defensive coordinator Morgan Scalley played for Mac’s teams. He hired offensive coordinator Jason Beck years ago at Weber State. Other Utah assistants also had their beginnings with Mac — Elliss, Lewis Powell, Colton Swan, Sharrieff Shah. Several members of the BYU staff also tie back to Mac.
On Saturday, the U. will ensure that future generations will remember McBride. His name will be placed on the Ring of Honor inside the stadium.
“It’s for the players and the assistants — they created it, they did it,” the coach says. “It’s really something all of them achieved. That name being up there represents the players, the coaches and the people who work up there.”
Former Utah head coach Ron McBride and current BYU head coach Kalani Sitake answer a few questions from ABC4’s Wesley Ruff, the emcee for the BYU and Utah charity golf event at Hidden Valley Country Club in Sandy on Monday, June 2, 2025. | Scott G Winterton, Deseret News
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SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The professional violinist who was taken into custody by ICE in Colorado last month has posted bond. Local Denver musicians met him outside the detention facility.
John Shin, 37, was detained by ICE while on a work trip in Colorado on August 20, 2025. Since then, he has been held at the Aurora, CO, ICE detention center. According to his attorney, Adam Crayk, Shin posted bond and was released today.
Shin reunites with his family after being released from ICE custody. (Courtesy: Efren de gala)
Shin reunites with his family after being released from ICE custody. (Courtesy: Efren de gala)
Because his release was fairly sudden, Shin’s family was unable to meet him outside of the detention facility. Instead, fellow musician Shana Kirk met him outside.
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“The first wave of relief, I didn’t expect, and I don’t even know John,” Kirk said, “Johns’ family is hundreds of miles away and he has no one on the ground here so we agreed to be the intermediary to communicating how things work at the facility.”
Kirk is based in Denver and had never met Shin prior to his release. But she felt compelled to help when she heard about his detainment. She said, “The music world is small. Once word started getting around that a violinist got reprehended by ICE, that sounded like an unusual story.”
“We wanted to be out there, so he doesn’t just release on the street,” Kirk said, with local musicians gathered outside the Aurora detention facility. She was overwhelmed by the amount of support from the music community, “[I’m] unbelievably proud but I’m not surprised. It is an incredibly beautiful community.”
While Shin is expected to return to Utah and to his family today or tomorrow, his release does not mean the end of legal proceedings in this case.
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Reportedly, ICE arrested Shin because he has a previous impaired driving charge. In 2019, he was charged with DUI, but resolved it with an impaired driving charge in 2020. Crayk says Shin has since completed probation, treatment classes, and all other requirements of his charge.
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“The problem that you have, though, is as someone who is coming to the United States and who doesn’t currently have proper documentation because when you get a DUI, DACA gets taken — immigration will not let you have DACA with a DUI,” Crayk said, when Shin was first detained by ICE.
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“He becomes a priority, especially under the current administration — so, he was taken into ICE custody because he accepted and did an agreement in Tooele County for an impaired driver, which caused ICE to take him into custody,” Crayk added.
The next step for Shin is to get him a green card, according to Crayk. He said, “John’s not leaving this county. We are going to win. He is going to get a green card and, ultimately, going to become a citizen because this is not the type of case we should have wasted our resources on, not even close.”‘
John Shin has lived in Utah through his elementary school, high school, and college education, graduating from Utah State University. He has worked with the Utah Symphony and Ballet West.
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