What is the criteria? Are thes polls supposed to reflect accomplishments to date, or a forward looking projection of where these teams will finish, or something else?
If it’s accomplishments to date we should be right after Montana. If it’s projecting how teams will do when or if they play, most won’t pick us ahead of Weber or Eastern because we lost to them a couple of months ago. So best we could reasonably expect is to be above Montana State.
Polls are relatively meaningless after one game

I think whoever hits a cyclist is likely to be a kid driving too fast, someone distracted by their phone, someone with a vehicle with bad suspension or tires or someone unaware that they may encounter a cyclist or someone under the influence. Lack of driver training also contributes. I think in rural areas you may have more drug abuse, worse maintained vehicles, people unused to encountering cyclist and not informed about the idea of sharing the road. I don’t think it’s a conservative or liberal issue. I admire your guts for biking on the two lane roads.

[ UCD won the time of possession battle against Tulsa by almost 50%. To be fair to Gould and others who like the stat, it did affect the outcome of that game, contributing to their players wilting at the end with the cramps and us able to string together the four first downs to run out the clock.

Responding to the general discussion here about bikes holding up traffic and bike lanes, not the specifics of Knapps death.
Drivers have to realize that a bike is entitled to use the road. They can use the bike lane if they want to.
I live near a street that has a four lane road, and a two foot wide bike lane before it slopes into the gutter. I bike with my dog, we go about 13-15 mph on this stretch of three blocks. My choice is try to stay in the bike lane and have drivers whiz by going 25 miles faster than us, or occupy one of the two lanes, which is the safer alternative even if it might irritate someone. Being barely out of the bike lane encourages drivers who think their depth perception is perfect to not change lanes.
Drivers intolerance of slow moving vehicles has gotten dramatically worse over the years. When I learned to drive there were lots of slow vehicles, and if you got behind them you just dealt with it without having a mental breakdown. A speed limit is not a guarantee.

I notice that Justin Kraft didn’t play, according to the stats. He’s a slot receiver same as Crawford and Hutton. Hutton certainly played very well, but I’m guessing Kraft might have been held out due to injury, because if he was healthy he likely would have seen some action. I think Hutton had a great game, the guy is tough.

Damn! They offered me a half scholarship when UC wouldn’t let me in.

I’m not saying it’s not a stroke of good fortune, it obviously is. Particularly the USC check.
Just saying a good portion of it makes up for lost revenue from missing our FCS game last year. We missed out on a game with San Jose, which would have had minimal expense.
I don’t think it’s a windfall which can be spent on some project. Remember we missed out in all the attendance revenue from the fall games as well.

I can still hear the Applebee’s song in my head

I was wondering why it was called Dixie and the only reason given was local preference. I thought maybe it was named for a teacher or something. Hard to believe a county didn’t have a public high school until the twentieth century.

I think the big payday more or less is offset by the fact they didn’t get paid for an FCS game in 2020.

Turnover and penalties near our end zone cost them three touchdowns and they set us up for the winning field goal with an interception. Their offense made plays but couldn’t convert third downs. Their defense gave up too many third down plays. We got four first downs on the final possession to end the game, even though starting out first and 15. If you're them it has to be frustrating. So many if only moments.

I think the additional year of eligibility has increased the experienced depth. That was one of the FBS advantages over FCS teams. The FBS teams are deeper too but there is a limit to how much additional depth helps them, once you have enough more doesn’t help as much. We saw in the Tulsa game that we played almost as many players as a deep FBS team. We had 70 players and only one was a 2021 grad.

I don’t think any of the Tulsa fans would dispute that.

Yep, I think more of our players lost weight than gained it. A lot of these guys look like they’re 5% body fat.

I wonder if Rodrigues lost the ten pound difference in his weight since the spring. He is 170 now. That’s how it appears, but they don’t update weight every season.

It takes a few years of success to make a name for yourself. These early season polls are just name recognition. We need to beat some ranked FCS teams to give us credibility in the FCS polls.
Can’t keep losing to Eastern and Weber. Especially this year where they beat us just a few months ago, there is an expectation we’re not as good.

We were without a couple of defensive linemen, one an all big sky second team player Luka Nixon And Princeton Toki wasn’t on the travel roster. Toki played some this spring and while he didn’t generate many stats he’s a load.

Luka Nixon didn’t play. According to the official stats. Key player for us this spring. Can’t tell who started in his place.

And we didn’t see an injured Aggie! Our team seems extremely fit. No cramps for us,

Stanford was poorly coached. We also beat their coach when he was at UOP.
Stanford’s starting QB hurt his hand in first half and had to leave game. Backup was not ready to play, even though I think he went on to do well, I think he was drafted. They had an unstoppable runner who ran through #8 UCLA like a knife through butter, but they didn’t use him.