New coaches poll has the Aggies at 19. The new AGS poll also dropped and has us at 14.

I do not envy the folks who have to submit real ballots for voting. Got to make a lot of tough calls when teams have different number of games played and really only playing within conference. That being said, I'm still not sure how EWU is ahead of Davis right now. Both teams are 2-1 and both teams have a blowout win. The major difference is that the one common opponent we've have (Idaho) we beat and they lost and our 1 loss was a 1 score game against a consensus top 3 team. Pretty much every poll has us behind Eastern though. Just got to beat them in a couple weeks.

I think it's especially tough to look at common opponents this season with everything going on in the world. Idaho had players out against us who played versus EWU, Poly had limited practice leading up to their Southern Utah game, etc. I would hate to be on the selection committee at the end of this season considering how all the conferences have played different numbers of games and with limited to no cross conference play.

They are definitely the most pass happy offense we've faced so far at the very least. I would probably argue that Weber has a better overall offense than Idaho State, but it will be a different test for sure facing a team that wants to throw the ball 40+ times per game. Rating systems aren't the be all and end all of football analysis and often lack nuance, but Massey rates Idaho State's offense similarly to Idaho's, but they have a worse defense. I agree with you that we can't have some of the mistakes that we had against Poly though. The most notable one was probably the first drive of the game when Hunter fumbled on the goal line. Just have to get rid of the ball in some of those situations.

I wasn't implying that it would be an easy game by any means or that we should take them lightly. I believe they are a better team than Poly right now, but I don't think they are in the top tier of the Big Sky. I believe that if both teams play to their best potential then we win the game, but you never know if a team will play to their best potential.

New STATS FCS poll has the Aggies sitting at 15 (previously 21). I don't quite understand EWU at 12 (previously 15) considering they didn't play a game this last weekend, but we can settle that score in a couple weeks.

ISU got blown out by Weber and had a narrow win over Southern Utah so take that as you will. Massey giving the Aggies a 77% chance of winning the game. The EWU game seems to be the outlier in performance based on where I saw ISU to start the season. I figured they would be in the bottom half of the conference and losing big to Weber and a close game with Southern Utah falls in line with that.

They throw the ball a lot, but their QB's accuracy is only sitting around 55% and he has already thrown 5 picks over 3 games. Their defense additionally looks suspect as they've given up 40 points in 2/3 of their games, so hopefully we can keep the offense rolling. The Aggies SHOULD win this game, but there's a reason why you actually have to play the game to determine the winner.

I think our competitiveness with Weber probably indicates a combination of both. I think we are decently good and Cal Poly is pretty dang bad.

Neither Hamler or Raquet are a long term solution for Poly in my honest opinion. That being said, I think one of their biggest problems on offense is the line. Our defense was in on both quarterbacks consistently. Tough to get any kind of pass game going when you're always on your heels. They allowed 7 sacks versus SUU as well... 16 over 2 games.

The kid's politics doesn't have anything to do with what happens on the field. You can focus on it if you want, but it seems unnecessary to bring it up.

Nah Luuga was a senior in '16 I believe

This is the list of longest runs in UC Davis history. I am not familiar with the players from the 1940s and 1950s so I don't know their positions, but safe to say it was certainly one of if not the longest by a QB.

Jim Wilson...........................................94t................Southern Oregon.................................... 1953
Joe Trombetta......................................90t ...............WESTERN WASHINGTON............................2007
Shola Adeyemo.....................................90t ...............Saint Mary’s.......................................... 1990
Manusamoa Luuga................................90t ...............Southern Oregon....................................2016
Matt Massari .......................................89t ...............Abilene Christian ...................................2002
Kale Turner ..........................................88t ...............at Eastern Washington............................2007
Lou Hausmann......................................87 ................Cal Ramblers......................................... 1953
Ken Kuykendall .....................................86................ Humboldt State......................................1949
Shola Adeyemo.....................................85................Chico State........................................... 1990
Preston Jackson....................................84................. Humboldt State..................................... 1992
Lonnie Cagle ........................................83................Cal Ramblers......................................... 1956
Charles Richards ................................... 79................. UC Santa Barbara................................... 1940
Preston Jackson.................................... 77t................Chico State........................................... 1993
Rick Hamilton....................................... 77................. Nevada.................................................1973
ULONZO GILLIAM, Jr............................75................Portland State ...................................2019
John Nedderman................................... 75.................San Francisco State.................................1947
Jerold Ligons........................................ 75.................Cal State Northridge................................1984

Tompkins 86 yard TD scramble makes the Sports Center Top 10

I think Baldwin switching to Raquet was the correct move to make but far too late. I'm curious as to what exactly happened to the Poly defense though. I don't remember it being that much of an issue over the last several seasons.

Wow. This is still an incredible game to think about. Shot ourselves in the foot a couple times... Just mistakes we can't have against better opponents, but cool to see 3 different QBs score and Faulk reeeeeeally wanted to be a 4th. Without mistakes potentially an 80 point performance. The thing about it is that we were being merciful too but good luck telling Tompkins to slide on a run like that

Raquet certainly looked better than Hamler, but he was mainly playing against reserves. Our depth offense continued to shred the Mustang defense. Dan might be right when he said this could be the best team top to bottom in Aggie history.

It was Cody Hawkins

TRENT TOMPKINS

Fantastic hold by the D

Hutton looking good in run and pass game

First offensive points of the game for poly

It's true that what he inherited is far from his vision, but the mountain to climb going forward is huge. It takes some results to really improve the recruiting.