My guess is that Davis is going to take advantage of the young Cal Poly defensive backs. Davis, surprisingly, is now leading the big sky in yards passing per game, and is second in efficiency. Cal Poly is next to last in passing yards allowed per game. They do have five interceptions so have to be carefully. The Cal Poly commentator on the broadcast stressed how many freshmen they’re playing 60 plays a game. I think Davis will exploit their inexperience.
Run game should work too, but they’re middle of the road in run defense.

43 places but only 10 FCS teams and just a nine point spread,

We haven’t beat anyone who’s having a good season, our best win is against Northern Arizona and they’re 3-5 and even San Diego is just 3-3.
Sagarin has us as the #11 FCS team but that’s just on comparative scores, not who you’ve beat, which affects the non algorithmic polls.

What were they doing with the QBs against Eastern? I watched a bit of it but why wasn’t their starter in for more than one completion?

Northern Arizona and Northern Colorado both ran the ball better against Davis than they averaged in other Big Sky games, so that’s concerning.
Northern Colorado had been gaining 2.9 yards per rush against UCD they gained 5.3.
But rather than dominating the totals, Davis dominated in turnovers, scoring every time in the red zone, and big plays.

I don’t think so, not on the participation list.

I’m watching it now. Just look at big sky > on demand

Davis is rated as the 14th best FCS by Sagarin’s method based on scores and schedule, which ignores wins and losses. We’re sixth best in the Big Sky, just behind Idaho.
1) Sac State
2) Weber State
3) South Dakota State
5) Montana
8) Montana State
11) Idaho
14) UC Davis

Their QB is pretty good, but short. I think their problems are more on defense. Their win was against a team of a level that’s comparable to our wins

Crazy schedule, Oregon, Florida, Montana State, Weber, and Sac.
Makes our schedule look easy.

Northern Colorado was within 3 of Idaho after the middle of the third quarter.
Idaho State and Lamar are their two wins, and the only W for either of those teams is Idaho State beat Cal Poly.
Elija Dotson, a transfer from Sac State was Big Sky Special Teams player of the week after the Idaho State game in which he had over 200 yards of total offense.

I watched the first half. Three Interceptions, one a pick six and another at midfield that led to a field goal and the third ended a drive deep into Hamilton territory. Except for the Ints Calgary was dominating,

it’s on ESPN+, if you have that.

I wish Tompkins had shown more of an ability to throw on the run. Could Tompkins have made that pass while running? Probably but I’m not sure.
When Tompkins is back and taking the wildcat direct snap and Hastings is moved to receiver, they’ll have to cover Hastings.

[reply="CA Forever;4599 He certainly is one of our best players. And we are seeing some two back sets.
We sometimes start two tight ends, sometimes three wide receivers, maybe we’ll start two running backs some time.

Larison and Poerio didn’t start. But the three wide receivers that did start also had very productive games.
Hutton caught 2 for 64 yards a TD, and added a TD rushing.
Kraft caught 2 for 41 yards and they were tough catches.
Davis caught 4 for 43 yards. Davis is a better player than I thought.

They are near a forest?

It sends the message that a player doesn’t lose a job due to injury. Hard to maintain that in real life, but I recall the Oakland Raiders had that philosophy at one time.

I’m surprised NAU isn’t better this year, as their QB was quite successful as a freshman. NAU running game isn’t productive according to yards, so I looked on the big sky stats and they gain 2.5 yards per rush. Last in the league for both in conference and out of conference games.

The wheels fell off of last years team and they lost those last four in very one sided fashion. This years team is losing respectably to the same quality of team. But, this years team hasn’t played yet at the level Davis did in the opener at Tulsa, and they don’t have a quality win like last years pulled out against Weber.