Preparations for San Diego State’s 2025 season began 221 days ago, when winter strength and conditioning began. Hundreds of workouts, practices, meetings and other get togethers — “time on task,” coach Sean Lewis calls it — have followed.

“Finally, we get to go play a game,” Lewis said. “It’s not like any other sport, to where we get 12 days that count. Every single thing that we’ve done since we’ve been back on Jan. 20, 2025, up until this Thursday, have mattered. True. But there’s only 12 days that count.”

The first day that counts is Thursday’s season opener against Stony Brook, which is No. 25 in a preseason ranking of FCS teams. The Seawolves had the nation’s biggest turnaround, posting an 8-4 record last year after going winless in 2023.

SDSU is coming off a 3-9 season, the Aztecs

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