2018 Football Preview – Mountain West – Aztecs
Looking for 2018 San Diego State Aztecs predictions? The San Diego State Aztecs system is a simple, but effective game plan which is run the football and play aggressive defense. Give credit to head coach Rocky Long, year in and year out he just produces; three Mountain West titles and three bowl game titles in seven seasons. This team will be no different, and they have the talent to supplant former accomplishments. With a moderate schedule, San Diego State has the chance to crash the playoff party, but they’ll need to run the table to even bring up that discussion.
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2018-18 College Football Preview – San Diego State Aztecs
Head Coach: Rocky Long
2015 Record: 10-3
San Diego State Aztecs Odds to win the 2018 FBS Championship: +50000
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2018 San Diego State Aztecs Predictions: Team Strengths
Seasoned QB and O-Line:
Christian Chapman is a key cog to this offense, a veteran who will play the role of game manager.
He won’t be expected to have to win the game outright himself, just calmly run the system thats work for years and convert on third downs at a reasonable rate, the backs will do the rest.
His accuracy is his best quality as its helped him throw 33 touchdown passes compared to just 10 picks the last two seasons, so expect this offense to be constantly moving the chains.
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The offensive line is their biggest strength returning all five starters who were underclassman last year, and already in a system that runs the football, good luck stopping Juwan Washington.
Another Solid Defense:
San Diego State will be missing a couple pieces here and there, but the majority of the pieces are returning from a defense that just finished as the top defense in the Mountain West, while they were also the 11th best defense in the country.
The duo of safety tandem Parker Baldwin and Tariq Thompson will once again be a lethal combo as they exhibit they’re NFL worthiness.
If they can fill in the corner spot opposite of talented Ron Smith then they’ll have a great chance of being the top secondary in the Mountain West.
2018 San Diego State Aztecs Predictions: Team Weaknesses
Who’s Out Wide?:
The kryptonite for this Aztecs team is that they are kind of moderate in size on the line and they didn’t have much of a pass rush only putting in 23 sacks.
Not only that, but they’ll be a tad inexperienced after losing two of three starters from the defensive line.
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They have two veterans Chibu Onyeukwu and Noble Hall are solid producers, but they haven’t been dominant, so they could experiment with JUCO transfers.
San Diego State Aztecs Prediction: 12-0
This team is set again to take the Mountain West and earn to play in a respectable bowl game at the very least.
The run game is going to be elite and their defense can easily hang with any offense they face this year.
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If they can upset Stanford week one then, and take down Boise State in Boise State, then the sky is the limit for this team, and I’m predicting Rocky Long’s squad runs the table.
2018 San Diego State Aztecs Football Schedule
- 8/31/18 9:00 PM ET @STAN
- 9/8/18 9:00 PM ET CSUS
- 9/15/18 10:30 PM ET ASU
- 9/22/18 10:30 PM ET EMU
- 10/6/18 TBD @BSU
- 10/12/18 9:00 PM ET AFA
- 10/20/18 10:30 PM ET SJSU
- 10/27/18 TBD @NEV
- 11/3/18 TBD @UNM
- 11/10/18 TBD UNLV
- 11/17/18 10:30 PM ET @FRES
- 11/24/18 TBD HAW
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