SAN DIEGO—The first athletic event at Snapdragon Stadium will be held Sep. 3 with San Diego State facing Arizona to begin its 100th football season as a heat wave touches down in the region.
The $310 million, 35,000-seat stadium replaced SDCCU Stadium, the Aztecs’s home field from 1967-2019. San Diego State played its home games at Dignity Health Sports Park in the Los Angeles County suburb of Carson in 2020 and 2021 while Snapdragon Stadium was being built on the former site of SDCCU Stadium.
The game will be broadcast on CBS—the Aztecs’s first regular-season home game played in San Diego on an over-the-air network nationally since Nov. 24, 1979, when ABC aired its 63–14 loss to Brigham Young….