SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Utah State head football coach Matt Wells held a press conference Monday at the Homewood Suites to recap the San Diego State game and preview the Aggies' upcoming Mountain West home game against Wyoming. A complete transcript of the press conference can be found below.

Head Coach Matt Wells
Recapping the San Diego State game:
"We got outcoached, we got outplayed and they won a good college football game. They did a nice job in creating their run game and we didn't do a very good job of making adjustments. We had no rhythm on offense, especially early, and we didn't do a very good job as coaches making adjustments or getting us into a rhythm, and getting us back on track. Special teams-wise, Aaron Dalton had probably his best game of the year, but other than that, we didn't do anything to create a win for us on special teams; it was a wash. In a game like that, we need to be able to try and create an advantage for us and we didn't do that. All the way around, it was a loss and I'll take it squarely on me. The only good medicine is to get back on the practice field and go to work. We did that on Sunday and I anticipate a very good practice today. Hopefully, we are all refocused on our goals at hand, which are still right there in front of us, from a conference standpoint. The same four teams we were going to have to beat going into the San Diego State game are the same four teams we need to beat right now, so we do control our destiny as far as that is concerned. I feel good about the way our players and our coaches are going to respond. I'm hopeful of that and anticipate that. Like I said, the best medicine that you can have is to get back on the field and go back to work, try to fix and correct a few things, play a little bit better, find a way to go compete and find a way to win against a very tough and physical Wyoming team on Friday night."

On what it was like seeing the defense get pushed around on the ground by San Diego State:
"After so many games and so many years of it, that's why you're surprised and I'm surprised. We got beat and that's the bottom line. We didn't get off blocks, we didn't fit things on the second level right and we didn't make good enough adjustments as coaches. It's all the way around. It just didn't go right and we've got to get it fixed and righted because Wyoming is going to be very similar on offense this week. They have a really good offensive line, physical tight ends and a very physical, very good running back."

On if he was surprised by how good San Diego State really was:
"No. I didn't create that impression last week, did I? I said how good all three of their backs were and how big and strong their offensive line was, that they were going to come out and run the football and we needed to stop the run. We didn't do that, they did it and they won. We turned it over four times. If you give up the football four times, including twice on your end of the field and one of those takes a scoring opportunity away from you when you have an interception in the red zone, that's two main parts of the plan to win and we didn't win them. The third part being the red zone, and we didn't get down there enough. When we did, we had an interception, so we didn't give ourselves a chance to win."

On what Utah State didn't do against San Diego State that it had been doing during its three-game winning streak:
"We had been in a rhythm throwing the ball, but we never really established or got into it, or as coaches, corrected it by calls or different things you try to do as a coach. But, we didn't do a very good job of getting into that rhythm. When you go back and look at the tape, we ran the ball pretty decent and our two tackles played really well. When you get down three touchdowns and the lead gets extended in the fourth quarter, you're not running the ball anymore. That's the one thing we didn't get, is we didn't get into a rhythm throwing the ball."

On if he changes some things after evaluating the San Diego State game:
"Yeah, but I didn't think it's anything traumatic or huge right here in the middle of the season. We won three games in a row going into it and we lost this one. We can make better in-game adjustments. We look at it and we evaluate ourselves on where we can improve, and the players do the same thing with themselves. We're all in this thing together. That's why I say that, because it's not just on the players, it's on us, as well."

On not going for it on fourth down when Utah State faced a couple of short-yardage situations:
"As I evaluate myself and look back on that, it's easy to say now that I should have gone for it, and I might in the future. At that point, we had two straight three-and-outs. You weren't doing much on offense, so that's a reason to get it jump-started. If it backfires, you're down four scores now. Where Aaron Dalton had his best game, it's the first thing I thought of. He had done well the last three weeks of hanging balls up inside the 20-yard line and we had done well on defense. That's why I made that call. Going back and doing it again, maybe I should have gone for it, and that's something I look at myself. But I also didn't know there was going to be six minutes taken off the clock on the next drive."

On where he thinks his team should be at this point of the season:
"How I think we've played is where we deserve to be where we're at. We're 4-3 overall and we didn't play well enough to win two of the three non-conference games, but we're 3-1 right now in the league. Going into the season, you look at the way we've got to start the Mountain West Conference, we're 3-1 and we own one of the tiebreakers. That's where we are. Would I like to change it and be 4-0? Yeah, but that's where we're at, so I think you stop at that evaluation and go, `Okay, now what do we have in front of us?' The goal to win the Mountain Division is right in front of us. We have one step that we've got to take this week and then we'll take the next step next week. We've got everything to play for still as far as our goals in the conference and bowls."

On Wyoming:
"They have a four-down front on defense and are very physical. Eddie Yarbrough is a very good defensive end. Eddie and Uso Olive are very good, strong physical players and you can see that on tape against Boise State, as well as the last few weeks. They have a very similar type offense as San Diego State. They have multiple tight ends, two really good receivers in Jake Maulhardt and Tanner Gentry. Maulhardt is a big, tall strong target. Brian Hill is a strong, physical downhill runner that we have a lot of respect for. We did last year going into the game and we absolutely did coming out of the game. He's one of the better backs in the league and we're going to have to play very well on defense."

On Wyoming's quarterbacks:
"We'll prepare for both of them, but we're preparing for a scheme that you see them run and call when they're both in. It all kind of fits together and you prepare for both. The schemes are very similar."

On if Wyoming is better than the 1-7 record indicates:
"I've got a lot of respect for coach (Craig) Bohl and that staff. I remember last year going into this game knowing it would be a tough, hard-fought fight and it was in Laramie. Now, we get them here in Logan and I expect a very similar type of game. They're a tough program and they're going to run the ball downhill. They're going to establish that and we've got to rise up and meet that challenge."

On the importance of protecting your home field:
"It absolutely is important. Playing well in Maverik Stadium is something our guys relish. We've been successful at home, our fans our tremendous and like I said coming off the Boise State game, that was the best I had ever seen and heard in all my years at Maverik Stadium. They give us juice, they give us energy and we feed off of that. It's up to us to create some of that and then to feed off of it, but playing at home in front of those fans is a big-time deal for our players."

On looking for playmakers:
"We're searching for playmakers at running back, receiver, tight end and quarterback all the time. Hunter Sharp is absolutely a playmaker and I believe we have others, as well, and those guys need to step up and make plays when balls are directed at them."

On injuries:
"It's just that time of the year that guys are banged up. The more you talk about it, the more it sounds like excuses. To me, it's college football and our guys are banged up just like other guys, and you've got to play through stuff."