The box score on the Davis web site has only a passing resemblance to the game.
They got the identities of the players that share numbers confused.
This is the case for 5 of the 22 “starters”.

The best chance is if its the first game and your team is pretty veteran and the FBS team made a lot of changes and they may not have their act completely together. The worst situation is if its their second game and your first.

Eli Simonsson is playing left tackle, Shamburger is playing a lot as a DB Verner atransfer last year from Boise is playing a lot at safety. On offense WR transfer Crump from San Jose has played,
No true freshmen that I’ve noticed

Check out all the transfers playing,

It will be interesting to see how the game announcers who have likely never seen a UCD team get by without game notes. Will they call the team Cal-Davis? Probably (I don’t mind). Will they struggle with Chubba’s last name? Will they know that Lan Larison was a champion steer wrestler, an activity Scott Marsh has called bull steering?

Their linebackers are on the small side, I assume their star and rover positions are defensive backs and they are defensive back height and weight.

A big line like that probably pass blocks better than run blocks.
They have a little running back who was 9th all time in Ohio high school rushing 7,000+ yards. This is his third school after Bowling Green and West Florida (D2) he averaged 6.9 a carry at West Florida last year. Surprised he is listed ahead of their returning back, but they’ll play both.

Note the weight of their offensive line. Also Parrish, the much traveled former four star LSU recruit is the projected QB

https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sidearm.nextgen.sites/tamuc.sidearmsports.com/documents/2023/8/30/1_-_083123_-_UC_Davis.pdf

Who knows.

i hope that the missing game notes are just delayed, not no longer produced. Some schools don’t make them. They used to have a media guide each season.

Sac State, an institution one would think Davis has resources to compete with, has actual game notes posted. I think players and their families like to see their name mentioned in print. The large majority of players being mentioned in Davis press releases are those with all conference recognition, and those names are repeated in every release. Sac in contrast actually has game notes, complete with an actual 2 deep chart.

A negative outcome of this game doesn't portend anything in the Big Sky but it would seriously diminish the likelihood of getting seven wins. This team like Southern Utah, Idaho State, Cal Poly,, Northern Arizona, is a team we should beat handily but upsets happen. Any loss to one if the above teams would need to be offset by beating Weber, Montana or Sac.

The position coach said so in the preview.

i too like to look at it. I hope its out on Monday.
Last year they listed a guy who didn’t get in a game all season, but still, it will be interesting who they have in what positions on the offensive line and linebacker, defensive back.
There will be some juniors sophomores and redshirt freshmen that they forgot to mention in the position videos that will be in the depth chart, and we have some transfers from last year that might get into the depth chart.

Maybe they have a 500lb elephant formation where that’s the weight or the tight end and the fullback,
These same guys have a podcast where one explained what an Aggie was. This from a branch of Texas A&M! But i’m grateful they cover the team. It’s a rare event when we are playing an opponent with less publicity than us.

I think their offense struggled so much after losing their QB for the last three games that they think the offense was their only issue. Statistics can lie, when a team has no offense the opposing offense doesn't call the same game, making the defense look better. Example: they are proud that they held Incarnate Word well below their average but they were not in the game,

The speculation on The Lion Wire blog is that Peter Parrish will be the starting QB. Former four star 247 recruit as a dual threat QB, began at LSU, transferred to Memphis, then to East Mississipi Community College, where he lost the starting job.
Link to the Texas A&M fan “analysis” of the game,
https://thelionwire.com/2023/08/26/the-pre-snap-read-lion-offense-vs-aggie-defense/

yep. I doubt many football strength coaches would say a kid (Leon-Guerrero) playing running back should still be 6’ and 180lbs after a year. I bet he isn’t.

I think wholesale changes when a team is bad like Cal Poly is more likely to lead to improvement, while wholesale changes when a team is good like Sac or Weber is likely to lead to regression. Texas A&M was a transition team that suffered from QB injuries, so they were neither good nor awful. They have a tradition of winning at a lower level, like Davis did in 2005.
The challenge of this game is that their offense will be un-scouted, its conceivable they will get some points off of the unexpected, their defense is thought to be good. It might be a low scoring game and they have a good field goal kicker and we have a new one. Add in some risk of bad weather, and that Davis has a new offensive coordinator, QB coach, and also have to replace some key personnel so there are things one can worry about. If we have a good game plan and our offense scores its usual amount of points we should win.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the roster weights are often not updated. Fisher is new so he’s probably got his listed weight, but both Mateo Perez and Leon-Guerrero haven't varied by a pound, very unusual if they actually weigh these guys annually.

Now Weatherunderground says 89 degrees at 7PM and 76 at 10PM. Apple shows a couple of degrees warmer.