I'm still not sure if Dixie State saw an exploit in our pass defense or if it was just in the nature of them switching quarterbacks, but strange that in their first 2 games they threw the ball around 30 times per game... they threw the ball over 60 times against us. I'm sure the DBs were getting tired with that kind of volume.

I'd like to see us come out of the gate fast and put up some points early.

Game day! Let's get that W! GO AGS!

Sam Herder at HERO Sports and Brian McLaughlin at Athlon are both predicting a Davis win. I'm still not convinced due to our general lack of success in Ogden, but it's a new season!

Obviously somewhat of a blow to them, but as always next man up. I expect them to continue to be a tough team to play.

Good. I hope it's strictly enforced. It's not hard to do your part to keep everyone around you safe.

I agree with this sentiment. Make 2 different penalties of targeting for egregious and dangerous plays with crown of the helmet hits and then a personal foul for incidental helmet to helmet. What Buchanan did was absolutely not worth being tossed from the game... his facemask bumped the facemask of the quarterback. We're just ignoring that that happens in the trenches on every single play? Give me a break.

Aggies at 8 in the AGS fan poll

https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?280634-AGS-Poll-Results-Week-3-2021

Aggies move up to 12 in the STATS poll

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/stats-perform-fcs-top-25

I mean... Everyone agreed that is was a pretty soft call. Incidental helmet contact at the very worst. To me the word "targeting" heavily implies intent. Either change the name of the rule or change the enforcement. I get that they are attempting to protect players and that is exceedingly important, but some of the targeting calls in the last several seasons are headscratchers.

I don't know about the versus model, but Massey does.

Almost identical to what the Massey algorithm is spitting out. As MTB stated they have it as a true coin toss 50/50 right now. This has the makings of FCS game of the week. I want to believe this is finally the season where we can knock off some of these higher ranked teams.

Aggies crack the top 10 in the coaches poll!

https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/fcs-coaches-poll

Sam Herder at Hero Sports FCS moves the Aggies up from 11 to 10

https://herosports.com/fcs-top-25-sam-herder-ballot-2021-3-bzbz/

Versus has the Aggies at 8 and Weber all the way down at 25

https://www.versussportssimulator.com/FCS/rankings

Aggies move into the top 10 in the Athlon poll. They punished Weber fairly significantly for their loss to JMU.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/fcs-rankings-top-25-power-poll-following-week-3-2021

I don't know. Maybe I'm just a salty (more recent) band alumni. If you had to make changes then you had to make changes... times change and that's just part of life. Everyone is gonna have different opinions on the situation, but seeing "UC Davis marching band established 2019" made me feel totally alienated from the organization it once was. No way for me to feel connected to something that was "founded" after my time and I don't think I'm alone in that. I can also understand that it's not about me or what I want.

Anyway... hopefully we can get back to talking about football. GO AGS!

Aggies (to my surprise) move from 10 to 7 in the college sports madness poll

https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football/top-25-rankings

The pixelated and squashed player pics were hilarious

Game angles were still limited and they had contrast imbalances from camera to camera. Some shots were very bright and others dark. Marsh and Barry did fine in terms of calling the broadcast. Video quality was fine and didn't really have any instances of buffering or dropped connection.