[washingtonismoney]

No team ever wants to give up 300 yards rushing. Any that does has major problems. I am willing to bet SDSU has a much better run defense than USC, and a better overall defense period. If UNLV can put up 21 on USC, Stanford can rack up points in the 30s on them.

Agreed, it was not a great performance by SC. I've not yet seen the game but it seems the Vegas guys didn't have much of a QB. That's not a great sign. The SC offense also didn't do much before the fourth quarter, though they had (cumulatively) a strong game. So it was not a very good performance. Of course week one games are sometimes very poor indicators for the rest of the season, but overall I would say Stanford had the stronger performance even if SDSU and UNLV are equivalent teams. Since it's my bet SDSU is the better team than UNLV, I would give Stanford the edge on style points from week 1. 

That said SC does present problems for Stanford. While, statistically, Stanford had a solid defensive effort against SDSU, by my eye there was quite a bit to improve -- tackling in particular, but the defensive line was also repelled on more occasions than I'm comfortable with. I'm betting on a fairly high scoring game with a more veteran Stanford unit having slightly more firepower.

[washingtonismoney]

No team ever wants to give up 300 yards rushing. Any that does has major problems. I am willing to bet SDSU has a much better run defense than USC, and a better overall defense period. If UNLV can put up 21 on USC, Stanford can rack up points in the 30s on them.

Agreed, it was not a great performance by SC. I've not yet seen the game but it seems the Vegas guys didn't have much of a QB. That's not a great sign. The SC offense also didn't do much before the fourth quarter, though they had (cumulatively) a strong game. So it was not a very good performance. Of course week one games are sometimes very poor indicators for the rest of the season, but overall I would say Stanford had the stronger performance even if SDSU and UNLV are equivalent teams. Since it's my bet SDSU is the better team than UNLV, I would give Stanford the edge on style points from week 1. 

That said SC does present problems for Stanford. While, statistically, Stanford had a solid defensive effort against SDSU, by my eye there was quite a bit to improve -- tackling in particular, but the defensive line was also repelled on more occasions than I'm comfortable with. I'm betting on a fairly high scoring game with a more veteran Stanford unit having slightly more firepower.