I think one or more early season games but after the students move in should be at night. Get the dorm kids to come as groups before they figure out what else they can do on weekends
Playing games near noon on Saturday is not festive. Games are a better college experience at party time, not as lazy summer afternoon. After it cools off in the fall schedule afternoon games

Hawkins interview
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.herosports.com/amp/fcs/football-uc-davis-dan-hawkins-eastern-washington-ajaj

yes they aren’t perfect.
We aren’t equal to Weber on defense either.
We have been chasing mobile quarterbacks around the last few weeks. It’s pretty tough to catch wide receivers with defensive linemen and linebackers

with NAU did you see us scoring three touchdowns in the first quarter?
That was impressive. Our team can be surprisingly good.

yep, a pickem game. They have more to lose than us. Throw the kitchen sink at them

I hope we consider ourselves underdogs on the road with little to lose and play loose, willing to take some chances. On offense “Basketball on grass” weather permitting.
Defense will do its thing, play lots of guys, forces turnovers, punts and failures in fourth down and win the fourth quarter like they’ve been doing.

we are first in the league in turnover margin.
Also first in conference in red zone defense.
We can’t expect a shutout but if we get some turnovers and stops and our offense scores as expected we win. That’s how this team has got to this record.

I’ve seen nothing.
I watched the first quarter on replay and no image captured him getting injured. So a mystery.
Hopefully he’ll be back.
On the plus side Modise seems more effective this year. This year’s line seems to be more effective and he’s very quick if he gets a little space. He seemed to have some success running between the tackles, which didn’t happen last year. I think he had the longest game against Stanford too. So he and Tehran still leave us with a run game

not noteworty that we tried to just run but noteworthy that they couldn’t stop it

sorry, I didn’t say what I meant. I meant our drive. Pretty impressive if NAU was still making an effort on D

What do you guys make of the long drive to end the game consisting solely of running plays. That was an unusual event.
Was NAU just discouraged or worn out?

Do you think the sports information group forgot about this weeks game? Thursday afternoon, no game notes posted. Maybe they are sipping champagne?

Participation Report Lists Starters
Note that we start three wide receivers.


Participation Report (Final)
2017 UC Davis Football
UC Davis vs Sacramento State (11/18/17 at Sacramento, Calif.)


UC Davis Sacramento State

POS ## OFFENSE POS ## OFFENSE
WR 82 Moore, Aaron WR 13 RATLIFF, Jaelin
WR 17 MONTGOMERY, L. WR 1 HENNIE, Isiah
LT 58 Sulka, Kyle WR 7 LINDSEY, Andre
LG 64 Firoozi, Majid LT 75 BADE, Jonathan
C 56 Martin, Will LG 65 AIONO, Pailake
RG 69 Bertero, Julian C 53 ESPIRITU, Ivan
RT 72 Gallant, Riley RG 59 MING, Wyatt
WR 3 Doss, Keelan RT 51 TAPPIN, Taylor
QB 15 Maier, Jake TE 11 SANDER, Stone
RB 22 WILLIAMS, J. QB 5 THOMSON, Kevin
FB 2 Baljeu, Derek RB 25 AJEIGBE, Joseph

POS ## DEFENSE POS ## DEFENSE
DE 10 Weaver, Brandon DE 99 OBINNA, George
DT 99 Rodgers, Bryce DT 95 CHOATES, Dariyn
NT 57 Cloud, Terrell DT 91 AUMUA, Seperini
LB 48 JAMISON, B. DE 98 SORENSEN, Ben
SLB 36 Airey, Connor MLB 55 PEARSON, Manoah
MLB 54 Bua, Ryan SLB 29 ANDERSON, I.
WLB 11 Anesi, Nas WLB 34 BRUCE, Marcus
CB 5 Olave, Isiah CB 23 TERRELL, Dre
S 8 CULBERSON, K. FS 10 CLARK, Austin
S 28 Parenteau, Ryan SS 2 HARRIEL, Mister
CB 20 White, Vincent CB 26 JENKINS, Ernest

Just ‘cause it’s wierd doesn’t mean it’s not true.
There is a lot of competition at receiver.
I can see why he might think he had earned a lead spot after redshirting one year then a year where he didn’t play and then a good year last year. But we had guys returning from injury and new recruits. He seemed to add something though.

if we are still talking about Moore, he wasn’t on the spring roster.. since he was a starter last fall and played a lot of minutes it is weird that he would leave the team over playing time. I assume he has some non football related reason.

Yep, but there are a lot of FBS teams that we would be favored or narrow underdogs, Cal isn’t one of them.
I’m assuming their team matrix includes both FBS and FCS. The description above doesn’t show how the score fits in besides saying it does. I assume it is similar to the pure points methodology in Sagarin.
But it seems win/loss is a bigger factor than point differential.

is SRS rating published weekly somewhere?
I like the formula. It doesn’t matter if you win by more than 21. However, It might give too much credit for winning an FBS game because that’s already factored in by the competitive score matrix; so we should schedule winnable FBS games, emphasis on winnable. Let’s play San Jose every year please And lower tier mountain west teams in place of PAC 12. Love it if we could play Reno regularly for historical and local reasons.

I’ve got to admit it was funner listening to the Montana announcers on the replay. Once you know we win their biased view doesn’t grate.

I’m not worried, it looks like an easy win. I wouldn’t put money on us winning by three touchdowns, we might, we might not.

NAU was picked third and still has the surrounding talent, just lacking QB. They played a freshman who didn’t even have fall practice due to injury then. So he’s obviously got a learning curve.
He might be much improved after a couple of weeks practice.
So assuming the defense is tough against pass in particular, and knowing they have good running attack, if qb doesn’t blow it for them, they might be better than these projections.