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[quote author=JPRI link=topic=17737.msg207363#msg207363 date=1508675002]Can't help wondering what has happened to SDSU. They also almost got beat by Air Force, a team that is having one of their worst years in some time. Perhaps they are like the Stanford teams of old, who would beat an Ohio State one week and then turn around and lose to someone like SJS the next,

I mean, perhaps they've gotten worse since we played, but losing that game was a perfect storm. We absolutely shouldn't have and if we replayed it now we'd crush them. Sometimes a team just stinks it up and loses a game they shouldn't, that was a case of that happens.
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Right. Remember back to 2016. Stanford whips SC 27-10. Penn State loses to Pitt. The losing teams go to the Rose Bowl.

Separately, I've been as big a Clay Helton skeptic as anyone -- but I didn't anticipate it falling apart as fast as it has. I figured he'd spiral down post-Darnold.
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As someone who follows both Stanford and SDSU, I can tell you what happened to the Aztecs. They came into the season with a young offensive line and it finally caught up with them. They were fine in September when they were healthy, but then the lone returning starter went down with an injury and some of the others are playing with the usual mid-season nicks and scrapes. Experienced guys know how to deal with that stuff, younger guys have to learn. Penny and Chapman have had zero blocking, and with no ball control by the offense, the defense is wearing down. Bad combo, but the game of football begins up front.

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[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=17737.msg207370#msg207370 date=1508686097]
[quote author=JPRI link=topic=17737.msg207363#msg207363 date=1508675002]Can't help wondering what has happened to SDSU. They also almost got beat by Air Force, a team that is having one of their worst years in some time. Perhaps they are like the Stanford teams of old, who would beat an Ohio State one week and then turn around and lose to someone like SJS the next,

I mean, perhaps they've gotten worse since we played, but losing that game was a perfect storm. We absolutely shouldn't have and if we replayed it now we'd crush them. Sometimes a team just stinks it up and loses a game they shouldn't, that was a case of that happens.
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Right. Remember back to 2016. Stanford whips SC 27-10. Penn State loses to Pitt. The losing teams go to the Rose Bowl.

Separately, I've been as big a Clay Helton skeptic as anyone -- but I didn't anticipate it falling apart as fast as it has. I figured he'd spiral down post-Darnold.
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As someone who follows both Stanford and SDSU, I can tell you what happened to the Aztecs. They came into the season with a young offensive line and it finally caught up with them. They were fine in September when they were healthy, but then the lone returning starter went down with an injury and some of the others are playing with the usual mid-season nicks and scrapes. Experienced guys know how to deal with that stuff, younger guys have to learn. Penny and Chapman have had zero blocking, and with no ball control by the offense, the defense is wearing down. Bad combo, but the game of football begins up front.