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Gary Lee Andersen (born February 19, 1964) [ 1 ] is an American football coach who was most recently head football coach at Utah State University. Andersen has also been the head football coach of Southern Utah (2003), Wisconsin (2013–2014), and Oregon State (2015–2017). He served three years as the defensive coordinator at Utah, where he ...
Provo • The last time you probably saw Gary Andersen on a football field was back at Weber State almost two years ago. The former Utah State head coach was serving as an analyst in Ogden during ...
Aug 9, 2022 · Andersen is a giant in his own right. The complex legacy of Gary Andersen is a captivating saga for the ages, with a storyline and a character arc worthy of the silver screen. It speaks of the triumphs and the frailties of human nature, it has suspense, tragedy, comedy, irony, drama, and heartbreak. Everyone knows Andersen’s name.
Gary Andersen is entering his sixth season as Utah State’s head coach as he initially led the program for four years from 2009-12 and returned for his second stint prior to the 2019 campaign as he was hired on Dec. 9, 2018. Andersen is the first of 27 coaches in USU history to serve as head coach multiple times.
- First Back-To-Back Winning Seasons in Over 30 Years
- A Conference Championship and Top 20 Finish in 2012
- Ushering in The MWC Era
- A Rough Return
- Mixed Results Against In-State Rivals
- Pro Talent Under Andersen
- Bowl Consistency
Andersen’s first two seasons as Aggie head coach led to a pair of 4-8 records, but Utah State started its turnaround in his third year, when it went 7-6 in 2011. That included a 5-2 record in Western Athletic Conference play, including five straight wins to end the regular season before losing 24-23 to Ohio in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. It was U...
The 2012 season was easily Andersen’s best as head coach of the Aggies, as Utah State won the WAC for its 12th conference championship in school history (that also serves as the school’s most recent conference title). An early season victory over in-state rival Utah — a 27-20 overtime thriller — set the tone for that year. Kerwynn Williams scored a...
The year after Andersen’s first stint, the Aggies changed conferences, joining the Mountain West. The 2012 season was the first double-digit win season in Utah State history — the Aggies would follow that up with a 10-4 year in 2014, and another 11-2 season in 2018. From 2012-14, Utah State won 30 games, the best three-year span in school history, ...
Andersen returned to coach the Aggies after Wells left to take over as head coach at Texas Tech following the 2018 season. Andersen led Utah State to a 6-2 record in conference play in 2019, his first in the Mountain West. That also included a 7-6 mark overall. This year, though, Utah State is off to an 0-3 start — the Aggies have been outscored by...
Andersen, who spent more than a decade as a Utah assistant and a one-year stint as Southern Utah’s head coach prior to taking over as Utah State’s coach in 2009, went just 2-5 combined against BYU and Utah during his tenures. Andersen’s Aggies beat BYU 31-16 in 2010, USU’s first victory over the Cougars since 1993. That set up a new, competitive er...
Over his final three seasons of his first stint as Utah State, Andersen had six players selected in the ensuing NFL draft, including six-time All-Pro Wagner, as well as Turbin. Both players won a Super Bowl ring with the Seattle Seahawks, and Wagner has become one of the game’s top middle linebackers. Those six draft picks during that three-year sp...
One of the crowning achievements of the Andersen era is how his time at Utah State helped establish the Aggies as a postseason regular over the past decade. The program has played in a bowl game eight of the past nine seasons. Prior to that, Utah State had only played in six bowl games. Andersen went 1-2 as head coach of the Aggies in bowl contests...
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Nov 7, 2020 · Utah State coach Gary Andersen, who earlier this season infamously said that player opt-outs due to COVID-19 were "not an option," has been fired. He was 0-3 in 2020.
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Aug 27, 2021 · By Brandon Judd. Salt Lake City native Gary Andersen isn’t done with coaching. Instead, he’s joining an old coaching friend at one of the most successful programs currently at the FCS level. Weber State head coach Jay Hill announced Friday that Andersen will join the Wildcats as a volunteer staff member, serving as an adviser while ...
