The statistic that stands out when looking at Sac and Davis in conference games is that Sac gives up an average of 437 yards per game and Davis 319. Davis holds teams to 5 points less than Sac does, .
On offense Davis and Sac gain 418 and 412 yards respectively, but Sac scores 5 points per game more, approximately 30 vs 25.
Sac has been out-gained by conference opponents, Davis out gained conference opponents by 100 yards per game.
Sacs star linebacker didn’t play last week, and Davis didn’t have Chubba or Rex Connors.

I think Larison would not be invited to college all star games because he has remaining eligibility.
I hope he stays, but if he leaves I think that he would be better off turning pro than going to some other college team, particularly if he can graduate in this, his fourth year. I think he’s shown he’s a player and the NFL would probably draft him according to how he does in work outs anyway.

Larison is a better athlete than Doss and Ulonzo from a size, speed perspective. The NFL will have medical reports and the results of combine workouts to assess that injury.. They won’t be scared away by a injury that caused him to miss two games if he is sound, which he very likely is since he just rushed for 268 yards.
His speed in the 40 and his size is average for running backs at the NFL combine. But he’s not just an athlete, he is a player with the skills to play running back, good vision, patience, agility, and hands.

I think you are living in the past, when all applicants submitted SAT scores, now the academic requirements are just GPA, and completing 15 academic courses. Its not like the old days when to get into UC schools you were essentially in the top 1/8th of students, now its maybe the top half since a B is an average grade and a student is UC eligible with a 3.0. I know athletes weren’t held to a particularily high SAT, but now if they have poor scores no one knows.
The fact that some athletes don’t qualify is offset by the fact that some athletes don’t like dumb classmates, Smart people want to be around smart people,

Bearden played nose tackle 30% of the snaps

That makes sense if you are not already on their radar, which I think isn’t the case. He is not like Doss, with borderline speed for his position. Lan has good size 207lbs and speed 4.49, great agility and instincts, is a proven receiver. The one thing that could keep him from being drafted would be injury.

4.49. Doss reportedly 4.56. Larison has qualities as a player that transcend speed alone.

https://twitter.com/CoachiJACK/status/1662239318897840133/photo/1

Why doesn’t he just turn pro? His class is graduating this year. Why go play for another college at all? He has shown his ability, why risk injury?

They are a long way from Lake Tahoe and the Golden Gate Bridge, the Davis local attractions.
The Davis is tough to qualify excuse doesn’t hold up like it used to. Need a B average at a time that a B average is average. If your counselor got you to take the right classes you more than likely qualify,

[ Foster was a coach at Davis when Hawkins played there.

Reasons they might not be wise to:
Dan Hawkins has been at Davis for 7 years, and in that time has never beat a top 10 ranked team has defeated only three teams ranked in the top 20, Idaho twice and Weber in 2021 right after Weber lost its QB, never beat conference rivals Montana State and Eastern Washington. At the same time Davis has been upset multiple times when it has been ranked. So at the FCS level Hawkins record isn’t stellar.
Dan Hawkins teams are as good as his coordinators, Dan supplies a vision. Unless Dan can bring some coordinators with him it would be a mistake, and the coordinators at Davis aren’t ready for that level, they had a bad year.

Being an Aggie alum doesn’t count for anything as far as job security in coaching. Cody never played for Hawkins, they don’t have a long history like he had with Tucker. I don’t know why we score two touchdowns a game less than we did last year with roughly similar talent. I think Cody has improved the run game some but the pass offense has fallen off. Cody might be good to keep as the OL coach. The QB coach hasn’t either shown by game results that he can prepare a new qb, or improve the one he inherited,

It is a general principle that for data everyone uses the same database. The online roster is authoritative, why are they using something else? And how are they going to fix this now that it is on the box score for both teams in every game played?

They list another name with Eli’s number 70. This is likely a result of the stats team not using the same roster, they have an error in their copy. Weird that it happens home and away.

Yes, that was weird. Did anyone run a fly sweep? Davis seems to game plan in a way that they just discard major portions of their offense and just take what they think the opponent is most vulnerable to. Doesn’t seem to work all that well.

What if he graduates in four years and is drafted, he would be giving up more than college NLI money.

look at the box score for the game, participation tab lists the starters and everyone who participated.
https://ucdavisaggies.com/boxscore.aspx?path=football&id=24817

These stats flow right into the players bios if you look at the season stats for the player in the roster. So Eli is not credited with any game participation.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/roster/eli-simonson/17420

Luke Roncevich has the credit for all those games, even though I don’t think he has played in any.

Here are the season statistics with a participation tab. Eli Simonson isn’t listed,
https://ucdavisaggies.com/sports/football/stats

Wildcat isn’t a gimmick, its not like they are fooling anyone or trying to, and it certainly isn’t a surprise.

Larison might graduate and just put his name in for the draft. He is in his fourth year.

Guess who started again at left tackle according to the game stats. Luke Roncevich.
A team might recruit our actual sophomore starting tackle just by promising that they’ll list him as a game participant. Ten consecutive games with the same error in the game stats. It hides a pretty good story of a transfer underclassman playing the first games of his college career, starting every game at his new school