1. San Diego State closes out as one of the top Group of Five programs
San Diego State did what San Diego State likes to do … sort of.
The defense might not have been as nasty as it was throughout the season, and the team is used to winning low scoring battles, but it’ll take the 14-point victory to close out a fantastic 12-win season.
The 489 yards of total offense were a tad out of character, but holding on to the ball for close to 38 minutes with no turnovers and a whole lot of control over the game was how this was supposed to work.
Head coach Brady Hoke won 12 games in his final year at Ball State, but he didn’t coach the bowl game. He won 11 in his first year at Michigan, and that was after winning nine in 2010 at San Diego State in the final year of his first go-round with the program.
12-2 with a bowl win was a great moment for San Diego State football. Now there’s work to do with a whole slew of key losses, but the formula and the style wins.
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