Alex Barett disloacted his shoulder in the second quarter. Dakota Turner moved up for him and SDSU has 3-4 DE's that will backup Turner (Rochelin, Tai, Cheathum etc.). Barrett is expected to miss one week (vs. UNLV).

Randy Ricks will also miss the UNLV game after a turf toe. He should return by next week on Monday.

Turner Bernard suffered an ACL but the plan is to rehab his knee and hold off on surgery to see if he can return around 3-4 weeks. If not, he'll just have surgery and return to the team next summer.

Turner Bernard did indeed suffer an ACL injury. He will have an MRI tomorrow to see how serious it is.

In case you didn't notice during the Chapman-Bawden fumble, Ryan Pope and Daishawn Dixon were on the line in their jumbo package with Dixon, Brunskill, Miller, Salcedo, Flores, Rosales and Pope, with Wells lined up at H-back.

You gotta think the staff gives Pope a good hard look for starting next week vs. UNLV (who beat Fresno 45-20 tonight and has a offense dangerous of burning this Aztecs defense for the fourth straight week).

Welp, good news about ESPN News is...........no delayed starts like last few games because of previous games running over.

Air Force beat Navy today to move to 4-0. Only other MW team today playing OOC.

QB Blake Barnett is leaving Alabama. He was a very good dual threat at Corona Santiago and SDSU will definitely be in the mix. I made it pretty clear through the fall that they are in dire need of talent/depth. Apparently, he would be eligible to start playing after the fourth game next season. He'll have to take care of some junior college classes but it's very possible.

Below is some more info. Below that is unhappy Saban comments:


https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...WCCka-gDRcQ1uA8Pw&sig2=tGAQZvOiNOeojc4bQrTePw

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/09/nick-saban-blake-barnett-transfer-miami-dolphins

Aztecs open as 17.5 favorites.

USA survived their game at home last night vs Nichols State when Nichols State decided to go for 2 instead of tying in OT.

Really curious to see how Aztecs Defense plays after getting some much needed rest and hopefully some fine tuning. USA doesn't have the weapons in the air and will try to run it against SDSU. However, even NIU had success in the air so really looking for Secondary to NOT get burned for big plays.

Fully expect SDSU to have a big night pounding the ball and gaining big yards on the ground.

Miami at GA Tech
Baylor at Iowa St
Utah at Cal

3 teams which could get upset and allow SDSU to get as high as #16

Coming into today, DJ had 4,651 yards and was sitting at #39 All Time.

After today's 23 for 226 yards performance DJ has 4,877 yards making him #29.

Most recent guy he passed up was Thurmon Thomas 4847.

Up next:

# 28 Lorenzo White at 4,887
#27 Paul Palmer at 4,895
#26 MELVIN GORDON at 4,915

I think it's time for a new conference. Geography not withstanding, that's a pretty darned good conference for both Football and Basketball.

Houston
Memphis
UConn
Cincinnati
Air Force
Navy
BYU
Boise St
SDSU
UNLV

Just read that Alabama's five star red shirt freshman quarterback, Blake Barnett, has left the program. He's a California kid. Just Sayin' . . .

Anyone know how good Emmanuel Wilson looks in practice? He's listed as redshirt freshman, I don't recall any discussions on this board about him. Is he a transfer? A walk on? Both? Thanks for any info on this kid!

Anyone know if we're still in the running for that Poland kid that was kicked off AZ a while back? I know I'm thinking way ahead but it be great to have someone like that at tackle opposite Pope next year.

Article in the UT today about Turner moving back to DE and the reason being that the younger guys weren't developing fast enough and Bawden stepping up at FB.

Thoughts?

BTW...nice responsive feel to the forum now but the UI sucks. I can't tell what I have read

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/aztecs/sd-sp-burnsverdict-20160928-story.html

Ouch. We don't have that kind of money laying around.

I am a season ticket holder for both football and basketball and would love to have any stories available on our upcoming basketball team? How are the transfers working with our returning players? Do either freshman big men have a chance of helping us this year? Anything about the five new players we have? Anything at all would be of great interest to me.
I love all the football stuff and I know this is their season, but basketball is only 6 weeks away! Go Aztecs...

Just purchased 4 tickets for our game in Mobile (Section V Row 37 I believe). We plan to visit New Orleans and Gulf Shores as well. Can't wait for revenge against the Jags.

Guessing the USA game gets picked up tomorrow (not sure if CBS or ESPN).

Also think we end up on ESPN2 for our UNLV game which might flex us to a Friday or Thursday night game.

Will update this thread as I see more.

I know I'm early, but what are the odds of us keeping our coaching staff intact if our season goes as well as we expect It to?

See what happens when we get a bye week?!?! Just wondering if I'm the only one thinking about this right now.

Just watch (I don't want to ruin it):

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It appears the reality of the Chargers skipping town is gaining traction.

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c...s-angeles-in-2017-as-increasingly-inevitable/

It's downtown or bust, and it's looking more like bust. So now the reality of that satellite campus at the Q site is looking more likely and that 40,000-ish seat stadium shared with the major league soccer team will probably be the way we go.

I don't know about you guys but, thank god the bye week is over and now we can get back to more important things like talking about our next win.

Should be released pretty soon, and there's a very possible chance SDSU moves up to the 17-20 range.

Here's some fluff to take your mind off the game for a moment.

Hope this kid still has legs left after he gets to the Mesa.
Last week he had approximately 40 carries. This week he had 34 carries for 265 yards and 2 TD's in his team's loss.

Not freakin Yootahs. What the hell were they wearing all black w/ red and white trim for tonight vs. U$C? Amazing how many schools teams are envious of our guys who get to wear black legit.

The Yoots can only dream.