If you’re staying up late for Friday night college football action, there is a gold mine of player prop opportunities in New Mexico vs. San Diego State.

Under first year head coaches, both New Mexico and San Diego State have trotted out high octane offenses with lackluster defenses, which has made for entertaining affairs all season long. In this Week 11 Mountain West showdown, I’m looking at three key contributors to clear their respective player props.

Get ready for Week 11 action here!

Odds courtesy of FanDuel Sportsbook

Eli Sanders OVER 57.5 Rushing Yards

Sanders is fresh off his best game of the season, rushing for 205 yards on 17 carries with two touchdowns. 

While that was the first time that he cleared 100 yards on the season, he has been a steady force in this Lobos offense, rushing for at least 70 yards in five of the other eight games. 

The Lobos have an advantageous matchup against the San Diego State defense that has been pushed around all season defending the rush, ranking 124th in defensive line yards and 106th in EPA/Rush. 

Sanders is the No. 1 option in a high-octane offense that has plenty of creative ways to get him the ball, back him to go over this mark in a game with a total in the high 60’s. 

Devon Dampier OVER 64.5 Rushing Yards

Sanders is a good bet to go over his rushing yard total, but it’s Dampier who is the Lobos’ leading rusher this season. 

The sophomore has been dynamic in Bronco Mendenhall’s offense, rushing the ball five or more times in every game since the opener, and has rushed the ball at least 11 times in the last four games. Dampier has rushed for 50 or more yards in all but two games, so he has a steady floor, and an average of 82.7 yards. 

While the concern is that San Diego State is top 10 in the country in sacks, the volume of plays should offset that and give Dampier plenty of bites at getting over this total given that both teams are top 50 in seconds per play. 

Danny O’Neil OVER 223.5 Passing Yards

New Mexico’s defense is among the worst in the nation, bottom 10 in almost any metric you will look at. 

Meanwhile, the freshman quarterback O’Neil has started to come into his own for the Aztecs in Sean Lewis’ fast-paced offense. He has gone under this total in two straight, but given the up-tempo nature of this game, I expect O’Neil to settle in nicely. 

He has shown the ability to clear this mark with 254 passing yards against Wyoming and 246 against Central Michigan, two defenses in the same realm as this Lobos’ patchwork pass defense. 

With a game in the 60’s, I expect O’Neil to get his and clear this total. 

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OCEANSIDE — When Rock Academy faced Hilltop in an early-season girls volleyball tournament, it got destroyed. Things got so bad that the Warriors notched only four kills in two sets and lost the second set, 25-3.

Apparently, you learn more from your losses than your wins.

Rock Academy ran its winning streak to 17 straight matches with Thursday’s 25-16, 15-25, 25-16, 25-27, 15-4 win over The Monarch School in the Division 5-AA championship match. It was the most important win of them all, as it resulted in the first CIF San Diego Section championship in program history.

The Warriors (23-1) lost in last year’s championship match to Calipatria in four sets, so redemption was clearly a motivator.

Junior outside hitter Alexa Baird led the way for Rock Academy with 15 kills and three aces.

For the Royals, who came in on a 12-match winning streak, simply getting here was a victory. This was the furthest trip for the school that features students who are either currently or recently unhoused.

The Royals (18-7) were led by senior outside hitter Chantal Bocanegra, who notched nine kills with four aces and two blocks.

Royals junior outside hitter Daphne Allen put away three straight balls in the middle to tie set one at 13 before Rock Academy’s offense caught fire. Baird had three kills near the end of the set.

The Royals appeared to be ending the night early in the second set as the Warriors went up 4-0 on two Martha Mulumbilwa kills and two Aliya Landes aces. That’s when Jennifer Bocanegra took over.

She had a kill in serve receive to get the Royals on the board then dialed up three straight aces.

She combined with Allen on a stuff block for an 11-7 lead. Allen had two late kills then Bocanegra crushed a ball on the outside after a long rally for a 23-15 lead in a set they’d take 25-15.

The third set was mostly back and forth .The Royals went up 8-6 before the Warriors offense got stronger. Mulumbilwa got a stuff block for a 10-8 lead. Parker Duhs notched a pair of aces after a timeout.

Before the Royals could call another timeout, the deficit was 19-12. Mulumbilwa ended set three with a huge kill on the outside in serve receive.

Not surprisingly, set four was neck and neck. Allen had three early kills, but the well-rounded Warriors attack kept it close. And then the Royals refused to let balls drop on their side, raising their defensive effort to a championship level. An 18-11 lead turned in a nail-biting 27-25 win to send it to a fifth set.

Riki Salas Smith served an ace for the Royals to start set five. The early part of the set was like two boxers in the 12th round exchanging swings (and sometimes errors). It was 3-3 before Rock Academy went on a run for the ages, closing it out with a 15-4 win.

The Navy has relieved the commanding officer of a San Diego-based school for its information warfare sailors, a statement announced Thursday.

Cmdr. Cayanne McFarlane was relieved as commander of Naval Information Warfare Training Group San Diego by Capt. Meredith Schley, the commodore of the Naval Information Warfare Training Group.

According to its website, the schoolhouse’s mission “is to train, support and deploy naval forces to execute the Information Warfare (IW) mission in support of naval operations.”

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McFarlane’s relief, which was officially over a “loss of confidence in her ability to command,” marks at least the 12th firing of a commanding officer this year for the Navy.

Loss of confidence is a boilerplate reason provided by the Navy, and other military services, that can encompass anything from consistent poor performance by a command on key evaluations to personal actions like drunken driving.

A military official told Military.com that McFarlane was relieved over a matter of personal conduct that did not involve allegations that would have affected another sailor.

Navy officials have previously said the sea service relieved 15 commanding officers in 2023. There are currently around 1,600 commanding officers in the active-duty Navy across all communities.

According to her Navy biography, McFarlane is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy who was commissioned as a cryptologic warfare officer in 2006.

Records provided by the Navy to Military.com show that she earned both Surface Warfare Officer and Information Dominance Warfare Officer certifications.

She began her career at the Navy Information Operations Command in Texas in 2006 before serving aboard the destroyer USS Farragut as the ship’s information warfare officer and electronic warfare officer.

She eventually moved to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, where she worked in the Joint Information Operations Center and later as an aide-de-camp to the deputy commander.

McFarlane assumed command of the San Diego schoolhouse in April 2023.

Her decorations include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two awards of the Meritorious Service Medal, a Joint Service Commendation Medal, and two awards of the Joint Service Achievement Medal, among other service and unit awards, records show.

According to the Navy’s statement, McFarlane has been temporarily reassigned to Naval Information Forces, while Cmdr. Dominic DiMaggio, the executive officer of the Fleet Weather Center in San Diego, has been temporarily assigned as the school’s commanding officer until a permanent replacement is designated.

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