It was interesting watching the Oregon State vs San Diego State game last night, given Cal plays both in the coming weeks (and San Diego State next Sat).
Beavers beat San Diego State by a score of 21 - 0. A few notable stats from that game:
Aztecs, despite playing at home, only had 179 total yards, 7 first downs, and only two (2 of 12) 3rd down conversions all game.
They had the ball only ~19 minutes (vs Beavers having the ball for 41 minutes). As an example, after the 1H the Aztecs had only run 23 offensive plays. Aztecs wants to run a high tempo offense, but all it ended up doing was speeding up their 3 and outs.
Aztec QB Danny O'Neil was 11 of 24. Quite honestly, he really struggled the whole game. For the night had a QBR of 8.5 (didn't realize you could have a QBR that low)
Aztecs actually have a pretty good running back Marquez Cooper, but he never really got going
Aztec defense is nothing special. Beavers would have scored more if they had played cleaner
Overall, kind of an ugly game to watch. FYI Aztecs commit an ugly amount of penalties, so sloppy play is a real issue
I would expect Cal to shut-out San Diego State next Saturday 9/14, from what I saw last night.
