Sac was #2 at regular season's end, beating Davis 27-21 in 2022. They beat No. 13 Richmond at home after a 1st Round bye, then lost a showstopper in Sacramento to Incarnate Word 63-66. Only 13,722 people showed for the 3rd round matchup with UIW...compared to 23,073 at the Causeway Classic.

I honestly don't think we have a true #2 based on the Poly/NoCo aftershocks. I think it'll be a fierce competition for the 2025 job - and who knows if a JC or FBS transfer will give Plough a call.

Couple of questions:

1. Does McMahon Stadium fill up? How loud do the fans get up there?
2. Favorite food/custom he has picked up since being in Calgary?

Check out these pre-snap motions, the CFL looks like so much fun:

Got it

...and all but Nava, our RT, is coming back for the offensive line.

He's listed as a Senior - take that as you will.

Davis is very senior heavy this season, including QB. They have a lot of young talent at key positions, but they definitely will feel different next season.

Key Seniors for Davis graduating after the 2024 season:
QB Miles Hastings
RB Lan Larison
WR/KR C.J. Hutton
WR Chaz Davis
WR/ATH Trent Tompkins
RB/PR/KR Matteo Perez (though I've heard he has another year)
OLB Jackson Cloyd
CB Kavir Baines
TE Winston Williams
DT/NT Princeton Toki
RT Ernesto Nava
TE Josh Gale
DE/DT Evan Bearden
DE Zach Kennedy

Listing this because it's Senior Day on Saturday for Davis.

Can't even imagine how good Davis would be right now if LB Teddye Buchanan and DT Chubba Ma'ae had both stayed for this season. For anybody interested Chubba has a grand total of 5 tackles for Arizona this season - I'm sure he's playing his role as best he can. Teddye, however, is a star in Berkeley this year with 83 total tackles, 5 QBH, 4 PBU, 4 Sacks.

Couldn't help but notice when RFr. Griz QB Ah Yat finally pulled it in the 2nd half he had a gasher of a gain on the Aggies. Mellott, thankfully is a senior - so it's now or never for him, and for Hastings. That always makes for a good game.

Weather on Saturday still looking to be fantastic for this time of year. Likely in the low 50's, and no precipitation. Sun will be out for the little bit it can. Looks like dusk runs at kickoff, from about 4:54 pm to 5:22 pm. Then it's nothing but the Saturday night lights!

For everybody's information, you can find the Montana State Forum here:
https://www.bobcatnation.com/bobcatbb/

Bobcat Nation baby - they are active

My Dad is like that, he's been telling a lot of the same stories for 30 years, my sister and I have a about 3 or 4 dozen running jokes on his 'isms'. I still get a kick out of them, given all the travel he gets into in his retirement years, I always tease him he should have plenty of new stories by now!

Should've been in sales BGA. I don't know, maybe you are, ha ha, I sure am not.

There are chunks of tickets still available, absolutely. Just head here to 'Buy Tickets' - you can look around the stadium at what is available: Link

The sections 101, 102, 103, and 108 on the east side of the non-berm paid seating are sold to about 80% I think - that to me screams visiting fans. Still a lot of seats for sale in Section 109. I can think of a handful of times while being at UC Davis Health Stadium where it was actually packed enough that the MIB had to check my ticket number. I want that every home game!

Turnovers are always huge. I think both teams take care of the football during the game. Davis turns the warp speed O off and on throughout the game - we'll see what Plough's game plan yields on offense. I guarantee he'll have some different things planned for this one.

Ha, yeah, in the great Trojan War somewhere between the 12th and 13th century B.C. the two sides had two legendary warriors, the Greeks had Achilles, the Trojans had Hector -- Achilles was the greatest warrior of the battle, managed to kill Hector, but ultimately fell himself by the end of the War.

Davis so needs a walk-in UC Davis Team Store at the Stadium.

Might be the upset of the year right here in the FCS:

The stakes couldn't be any higher for Davis at this point of the year.

So, Big Sky has 4 teams in the Top 11, the Missouri Valley has 3 teams in the Top 5 and 5 in the Top 16.

I think this is a fair assessment. It'll have to be a some tremendous defensive game-planning and execution, a turnover margin win, and some luck for Davis to get the win in my opinion. The depth from MSU is simply a massive advantage.

Another key is the great players who play better will turn the tide, if Lan is bottled up, Hastings has to play out of his mind. If Tommy TD or the stable is running wild, then the Bobcats win, simple. I think Montana State has Achilles in this example - Davis working with a few Hectors, but we'll see. Davis does have the home field - the confines will be familiar - but in no way does a Davis crowd steer this game one way or another...unless, the Aggies are ready to yell, I'd be pleasantly surprised!

Nothing else matters - it's for all the marbles on Saturday in Davis.

No joke, Montana State is loaded. They have a full stable of powerful, fast backs and receivers.