It would be easy to assume based on the halftime score (29-0) and final tally (49-19) that the Wylie Bulldogs’ season opener at Georgetown was a total washout. The type of game you move on from after film study, never to revisit again.

But lost in the lopsided score was a 424-yard offensive output that could have yielded very different results had it been accompanied by fewer mistakes. And while the Bulldogs’ four turnovers and 13 penalties can’t be erased — and the disastrous effects of each stand as the overarching story of that game — there was plenty to like about the effort.

Take, for instance, that Bulldog quarterbacks Jaxon Hansen and Balin Valentine combined to complete 71 percent of their passes (22 of 31) for 292 yards. Or that Wylie ball carriers averaged 4.3 yards per rush attempt behind a relatively inexperienced line. Or that Hugh Sandifer’s squad responded from a nightmarish end to the first half to score 19 points in the second — topping their 2018 per-game scoring average by more than three points in those final two quarters.

All of those are things the Bulldogs can build on, Sandifer said, so long as they learn from and clean up their mistakes.