Scouting the Aztecs

This Season
Last year SDSU shared the Mountain West Championship and lost in the Poinsettia Bowl. San Diego State started this season with a loss to Eastern Illinois, with a score of 40-19. In that game SDSU had five turnovers which includes four interceptions by junior QB Adam Dingwell. It was a career high of 318 passing yards for Dingwell but he needed 63 attempts to reach that number. Senior receiver Colin Lockett led the team with 48 rushing yards, but all those yards took place on one play. Adam Muema is the first team RB and he had 17 yards on 10 attempts. Muema didn't finish the game because of an ankle injury. The team had 122 rushing yards total.

Offense
Last season QB Adam Dingwell directed the team to victory in the last four games, completing 64% for 590 yards. He is expected to start Saturday despite his poor performance on Saturday, as described above. Running back Adam Muema had over 1400 rushing yards last season. Muema was hurt last week, but is expected to play against Ohio State. Last week receiver senior Colin Lockett had 98 reception yards on a career high eight catches, in addition to his long run listed above.

 

Defense

The defense returns nine starters from last year. As with most of the SDSU team, this unit did not perform as expected last week. Eastern Illinois had 533 yards of offense and 40 points. Returning on the defensive line are Jordan Thomas, Sam Meredith, and Cody Galea. Missing from the defense will be linebacker Derek Largent who injured his knee in the Eastern Illinois game last week.