In conference only stats:
Davis is second best in the conference in rushing defense per carry, but tied for 7th in offense yards per carry.
Davis is second in scoring per game, third in scoring defense,
Second in yards per play gained , tied for second best in yards per play allowed.
First in passing efficiency but only 7th in defensive passing efficiency.
On offense passing is a strength, rushing just average.
On defense rush defense is a strength, pass defense just average.

Surprise! Davis is the second best team as far as points allowed per game in Big Sky Conference play, mostly without the Connors brothers and others. Giving up 21 points per game behind only MSU, at 9.
Davis is tied for 2nd with that team across the causeway giving up 5.1 yards per play, which ain’t good but is better than everyone else except Montana State’s 4.3.

Big difference in yardage for Pinnick in conference games, about 100 yards per game more than Lamson.

[ Not minimizing the loss of those guys, but OL, RB, TE, and Safety were the deepest positions on the team. Fortunately Sievers is filling in well for Porter Connors.

Not so impacted that they need to convert players. There are young players who were highly regarded recruits at all the lost player positions that still aren’t playing, but would be better than anyone switching sides.

Defense Starters lost: Safety Rex Connors, linebacker Porter Connors, cornerback Ty Richardson
#2 man on depth chart lost: Edge linebacker Garretson.
Offense starters lost TE Williams and OL Nava,
OL Rodriguez is somewhat limited but plays.
Depth chart player lost RB Perez
Can anyone add to this list? Its not 11 guys but the other 3 are unknown to me.

Penn State just fired their coach

When a contract has a $48 million buyout, do you think he cares? A perverse incentive.

Did Coach Plough land Pinnick?

Plough wasn’t around when Pinnick was first offered but was before he committed.

Corvallis is a nice college town.

Harvard and Mercer look likely to make the playoffs. Which would you rather play?

Idaho may pick up their fifth loss before playing us. They’ll be underdogs at Flagstaff in two weeks, and may need Wood back to beat Eastern Wa.. The broadcast said they had eight players unavailable for yesterdays game. They don’t have the depth they had last year, those guys are in New Mexico.

Sac & Weber played in a steady 42 degree rain. Sac is deep in quality running backs, tough to beat them in bad conditions.

What injuries do we have among depth chart players aside from Williams, the Connors twins, Richardson?
Nava left last weeks game with some injury, but he is listed on the depth chart which cane out late this week, is he out?
Perez hasn’t played for several games.
Is that it?

Nava is still listed number one in depth chart at right guard
Rodriguez, who finished the game against Cal Poly, is listed behind Main at LG. If I’m not mistaken Main played right guard at end of CP game in place of Nava, and according to game notes started in place of Rodriguez at left guard. Maybe they were trying to rest Rodriguez
If Nava is healthy then it seems they have everyone on the o line available. They still haven’t started a game with all the offensive lineman in the positions they started at last year, and probably won’t.

Maybe Zach Jones’ TD against Southern Utah
Update Watched the play it was an end around

What a deal that would be; travel, likely get a loss, make no money.
Did Davis,when we were transitioning, get paid to play Youngstown, or SFA, Montana State, etc? We had to schedule a lot of games, but I’m sure they got something.

Everyone doesn’t have body bag games, e.g. Montana, Sac.

. I was just referring to the guys filling the usual receiving positions, 3 wr, tight end and running back. We hadn’t seen much from the third wideout until last week, Simpson is great.

Pinnick being good is a given, but he may be even better last half of season. With Zach Jones’ emergence as the last threat Pinnick has five threats to throw to, and he uses them all. The offense should get the game average up to the 40 points in conference games we achieved last year.

We still are strong at Rex’s position, the team loaded up with graduate safeties. There is a fall off but we are still good at safety.
They need to address the pass defense in the middle of the field. Porter was very mobile as a middle linebacker, and like Rex had a nose for the ball, Sievers is a red shirt freshman, Rutchena is athletic for his size but somewhat ponderous. Cal Poly had some big plays throwing in the middle of the field. Defense has also lost a corner, where we were thinner at than at safety.

Yes, but do you want voters to speculate about the effect of injuries before the effect is manifested on the field? That would be too subjective.