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I’m in the camp that says Shaw keeps it vanilla, and that if we get ahead by more than two scores, substitutes liberally, not running up the score. But that presumes a lot of things, and we sure do have some recent bad examples of opening the season with a clunker.  15 is a tough spread to handicap.

I agree that Shaw will not likely try to run up a big score and that we be likely to sit on a fourth quarter two TD lead. I also don't think SDSU is weak enough that we'd run up a big score with all backups. 

As to opening clunkers, I think there were really only 1.5 of those in the past decade:
2015 vs Northwestern (burned into our collective memory)
2012 vs SJSU (only counts for a half because we won the game, but it was a closer than it should have been 20-17 win featuring the emergence of our QB issues)

There were other early season clunkers (notably last year vs SDSU), but those are also sprinkled around mid and late season as well.

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I’m in the camp that says Shaw keeps it vanilla, and that if we get ahead by more than two scores, substitutes liberally, not running up the score. But that presumes a lot of things, and we sure do have some recent bad examples of opening the season with a clunker.  15 is a tough spread to handicap.

I agree that Shaw will not likely try to run up a big score and that we be likely to sit on a fourth quarter two TD lead. I also don't think SDSU is weak enough that we'd run up a big score with all backups. 

As to opening clunkers, I think there were really only 1.5 of those in the past decade:
2015 vs Northwestern (burned into our collective memory)
2012 vs SJSU (only counts for a half because we won the game, but it was a closer than it should have been 20-17 win featuring the emergence of our QB issues)

There were other early season clunkers (notably last year vs SDSU), but those are also sprinkled around mid and late season as well.