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San Diego State expert previews the Arizona game, makes a score prediction

It’s officially Game Week for Arizona, which on Saturday will visit San Diego State in the 2022 opener for both teams.

This will be the first game played in Snapdragon Stadium, the Aztecs’ home field, which is a scaled-down version of the old Padres/Chargers stadium. That’s not all that’s different about SDSU, which blew out Arizona 38-14 last season.

To better understand what the Wildcats will be facing in their opener, we reached out to Jeffrey Carter of SB Nation sister site MWCConnection. Here are his respectful answers to our flippant questions.

AZ Desert Swarm: San Diego State came to Tucson last season and steamrolled the Wildcats in Jedd Fisch’s home debut, but a good number of the key contributors from that Aztecs team are gone.