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By Ana Kieu

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An enthusiastic offseason led to an extraordinary season opener at CEFCU Stadium. San Jose State defeated Northern Colorado 35-18 on Retro Night, which meshed well with the existing Throwback Thursday trend.

San Jose State (1-0) beat Northern Colorado (0-1) and will continue to grind, despite the fact it’s Labor Day weekend.

After the game, I asked head coach Brent Brennan if he was going to emphasize anything to make sure the team was going to prepared and ready before next week’s game.

Brennan told me the team will have practices Friday and Sunday so there’s a chance for them to get ahead, put Thursday’s game to bed and get ready for Tulsa. The team will have Saturday off, but the coaches won’t have Saturday off as they’ll have to put a game plan together.

Brennan said: “Coaching college football, there’s no off days … It’s the season. It’s time to go.”

Let’s keep in mind the Spartan offense cruised, while the Spartan defense held things down finishing with four sacks and nine tackles for loss while turning over the Bears twice. The defense was the “bend, but don’t break” type and linebacker Ethan Aguayo had 20 tackles, two tackles for loss and a sack. Fellow linebacker Jesse Osuna had eight tackles, two tackles for loss and a sack. However, Osuna was affected by a targeting penalty in the final minutes ejecting him from the game and disqualifying him for the first half of next week’s game.

If the Spartans want to make it two wins in a row, they’ll have to take the first lead of the game, jump start their offense and maintain an all-around persona going into next week’s game. After all, quarterback Josh Love said, “I think we need to not stay so high, keep an even-keel attitude … We’ve got Tulsa next week and we have to move on and keep going forward.”