Those brave souls tailgating in wet weather before Saturday night’s Boise State-San Diego State football game were probably too busy biting into burgers and sipping on soft drinks to notice, but the Mission Valley stadium site handles stormwater way better than it once did.

When SDSU took over the 166-acre property in 2020, the focus was on construction of Snapdragon Stadium at the northwest corner of the site.

Snapdragon’s construction coincided with demolition of the former stadium in the middle of the property. Some of that debris, along with tons of fill dirt, raised the property level 10 or more feet and eliminated the flooding issues that plagued the property for decades.

Perhaps the most famous flooding example came 15 years ago, when the Qualcomm Stadium parking — and the fiel

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