in person scouting is prohibited in the NCAA. Remember the contoversy over Michigan stealing signs, that is the rule that one of the Michigan assistants broke a few years back by buying tickets for friends and receiving reports and phone video.

There is a link on ESPN+
We will see if the event starts
Yep it works

Another factor is metrix like Massey, and two ESPN metrics that as far as I know are not published, South Dakota was ahead of Davis in Massey. Yesterday Davis likely moved lower as they did not beat the Massey “line”. Probably same with other computer metrics.
The committee has no standard for rating the teams, members use whatever method they want among the tools that are approved,

I think you are correct on the USD 4th, Davis 5th. Its not just that USD big win was today.
If the committee had USD fourth after the games of Oct.26, which they did, what has happened since that would lead them to move Davis ahead of them? That was their ranking after their loss on the 26th.
Davis is 3-1 since then with their best win being Montana.
USD is 3-0 with a best win against NDSU.

The yearly recruiting page show where players Davis offers end up. Seems to show our competition isn’t Sac or other Big Sky teams but mostly FBS, Service Academies and Ivy League. But I think beating all the California FCS teams helps make that true.

That was reminiscent of the early in the season ineffective pass defense with a lead like against A&M commerce. Not a one time thing.

My Ouija Board is misplaced,

South Dakota led in the one committee ranking on Oct.26, and their record since then is undefeated with a win over the Number 1 team, there is no way Davis ranks higher by the committee, regardless of score of the Causeway.

If Sac plays to their average against conference teams, and Davis plays an at the level of the average Big Sky team, Davis will cover. Sac yielded 40 points per game while scoring 27.1

There is the option of another quarter of undergrad. Maybe satisfy another major’s requirements. Lots of student take extra time, particularly if they transferred or change majors.

They list by academic year mostly ignoring redshirt status. The exception to that are the upper classmen who had a redshirt year a few years ago already reflected in their bio, and some transfers.

But they also have a data entry problem, they officially submit a “Final Book” which the NCAA, Big Sky, and other entities use as the statistics source, and that “Final Book” contains errors. Then they have difficulty correcting the errors, as they don’t control the stats, the NCAA does. I think that is the issue with the guys who were listed as playing in five games in their red shirt year.

Its a mystery that Davis can’t list players eligibility kon the roster, it takes a glance to do so in most cases.
Another mystery is why we have multiple players who are listed as playing 5 games in what could be a redshirt year. Nava, Souriolle, Fisher. Can’t they count?

Meyer played in 10 or more games for three years at Cal Poly starting with 2021 fall, so he has no more eligibility

No story on the Causeway Classic on the website,
Gameday has the Montana State game notes.
Did they close for Thanksgiving already?

Any juniors announced for senior day this year? Last year that was the first indication Buchanan wasn’t coming back, although he was listed as a junior on the roster. I haven't seen a list if the seniors announced.

With so many standards of evaluation, each with no assigned weight, they can justify however they vote. I doubt they even reveal who committee members vote for. Decided in what they used to call a smoke filled room, by a small group according to their individual whims.

Chaz Davis is productive against the best competition, e.g., Cal, Oregon State, Idaho, Montana, Not always huge games but some big catches. I don’t know whether he improved his speed, that is hard to do,as it’s mostly a gift you have or not. But Chaz is a more fluid athlete than I thought he was initially.

If Montana fans travel so well they will travel elsewhere that needs attendance.. My impression is that Davis draws better than most of the FCS teams

Personally, and I suspect for most fans, it would be more interesting to play someone they didn’t play the prior month.

They need to order the selection, like a decision tree to limit subjectivity.
Say what counts most. Seed according to:
1) Record/strength of schedule
2) Head to head to chose between two teams if they played each other
3) A metric like Massey.
Sure it wouldn’t be perfect but it would not be subjective or political.