This is a very well done video:

Game notes are up:

https://ucdavisaggies.com/documents/2024/9/12/24FBGameNotesSUU.pdf

Wow...now that's exciting!

This is an interesting discussion. I do agree with Virginia Aggie that one of the reasons we struggle to put students in the seats is that most of them could care less about us playing teams like TAMC, Southern Utah and Utah Tech and even some of the Big Sky teams etc.

I recently saw a list of schools that play FCS Football and we have the largest student enrollment by far. We're right up there in enrollment size and academic prestige with our brother UC schools like Cal and UCLA but do not compete at the level of their athletics. I think that the only way we will ever have the students packing the football stadium and the basketball arena is if our level of competition goes up and we bring in schools that they recognize and feel that we should be competing with them.

The last thing I want to see happen is for Sac State to make the move before us. The greater Sacramento region is hungry for a big time, college athletics program and Sac has the advantage of being located right in the middle of a major population area. If they are ever able to build large, quality facilities for football and basketball and they move up and start playing against FBS football teams and major D1 basketball teams, we'll be stuck at the level we are at.

UC Davis has a huge presence in Sacramento with the ever growing, world class UC Medical Center in Sacramento and the ambitious, future development of Aggie Square will grow our importance and prestige in Sacramento region. Geographically, our location across the causeway makes it more difficult for us to entice UC Davis fans to make the drive to attend our games but playing against big name schools would definitely bring in more Aggie fans from the Sacramento area.

Wow...big loss to our D with both Connors out. TAMC torched us with the pass...this game has me worried...

The Aggies continue to play well with wins over St Mary's 3-1 and Sac State 3-1. They now stand at 4-2 for the year with their only loses being to two, tough midwest teams: Purdue and Indiana. Next up: the Ags travel to Seattle for matches with Washington State on Saturday, 9/14 and Washington on Sunday, 9/15. Go Ags!

The Aggie defense continues to rack up weekly Big Sky honors as LB David Meyer has been named the Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week for week 2. Porter Connors garnered the same award for week 1 last week.

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2024/9/9/football-david-meyer-named-big-sky-co-defensive-player-of-the-week.aspx

Week 3 Saturday, September 14:

Idaho State @ North Dakota - 11 am
Morehead State @ Montana - 12 noon
South Dakota @ Portland State - 1 pm
Albany @ Idaho - 1 pm
Abilene Christian @ Northern Colorado - 1 pm
Eastern Washington @ Southeastern Louisiana 4 pm
Weber State @ Lamar - 4 pm
Aggies @ Southern Utah - 5 pm
Western Oregon @ Cal Poly - 5 pm
Northern Arizona @ Utah Tech - 6 pm
Nicholls State @ Sac State - 6 pm

Mike, have you heard if the Mercer and/or the Stetson games will be home and home games? Also, is the SMU game a for sure thing?

In the post-game presser, Plough was praising the play of Meyer and said he had to really step up "when we lost Porter." So are both Connors injured now?

I guess I didn't wait long enough for the coffee to kick in before and clear my morning cobwebs! :rofl:

Thanks, I edited my previous post.

Former Sac State RB Cameron Skattebo ran for 262 yards in 33 attempts and had 35 more yards receiving for 297 total yards in Arizona State's 30-23 win over Mississippi State..

I think Plough summed up my feelings about the game when he said that he'd take a "dirty win over a loss any day." I also thought it was interesting that the TAMC Coach said he felt like the Aggies came out flat and that his team failed to take advantage of it and got behind big before they started rolling in the second half.

This was a tough game and we bent but didn't break. Our inefficiency in the red zone is concerning and I was surprised at how porous our pass defense was giving up those big plays in the second half. I remember Plough saying that they want to make teams one dimensional offensively by stopping the run, which we did, but we also can't have teams torching us through the air either.

Our next game at Southern Utah is going to be challenging. They're a pretty good football team and playing in Cedar City on their "high school like field" will make it tough to get emotionally up for the game. I hope we'll be ready to play and that we'll see some definite improvement in the areas we are struggling with.

Total yards: Aggies 449 TAMC 448

Passing: Hastings 26-39 and 1 INT for 320 yards

Rushing: Larison 28 attempts for 127 yards

Receiving:
Hutton 6 for 84 yards
Davis 5 for 73 yards and 1 TD
Gbatu 3 for 54 yards and 1 TD
Larison 2 for 50 yards
Williams 3 for 30 yards and 1 TD

Meyer: 12 solo tackles and 1 INT for a 60 yard TD

The Aggies next opponent, Southern Utah, beat FBS UTEP 27-24 in OT.

Arizona 22 Northern Arizona 10 - Final
Fresno State 46 Sac State 30 - Final

Total yards after the 1st Q: TAMC 91 Aggies 42

TAMC came to play. This will not be a blowout by the Ags by any means.

I’m seeing 88 degrees at 7 pm in Davis.