Instinct? Going for the return?

Bailed out the D from giving up 15 on the PI call though

Pretty sure Pluto always lags ~1 min behind Big Sky website. I try really hard not to check AST until commercial breaks because of that

Saying FBS will somehow let us compete against Cal/UCLA is disingenuous.

The only practical place for Davis is the MWC, which is the 7th best out of 10 FBS conferences. The best of the MWC, like Boise and SDSU, can compete with stronger teams in the Pac 12 (BSU taking WSU to overtime, SDSU beating Stanford) but that won't happen every year. Most of the time Pac 12 games will be set up as bodybag games just like they are now.

When it comes to scheduling, you're looking at 1-2 Power 5 games per year. Maybe one of them will be a home game, but even that's not guaranteed and I've heard that's kind of a last resort for P5 teams. The rest of your OoC games will be an FCS game (so at least there's still room for Sac!) and 1-2 games against random Group of 5 teams. You're also playing games on "me-too" platforms (CBS Sports Net, ESPN2/ESPNNews, Facebook) at like midnight East Coast time.

If Davis gets good enough such that MWC makes sense, then sure let's talk about moving. But there's nothing particularly glamorous about FBS, at least how UCD would experience it.


Also, side note -- it's entertaining to see the SDSU athletics center hyped up like that. It just feels like a normal office building when I'm on the academics floor.

Ags don't look half bad when the whole of FCS is considered. No losses outside the top 20 and no blowout losses outside the top 15.

FWIW San Diego is a few spots behind us at #46 and SDSU is behind only NDSU in the combined Sagarin rankings.

Pretty sure I've seen a draw or two. And it looks like they're only going to do direct snaps to Spencer, which they might as well due to the passing threat.

I voted "Coaches Choice" because TT still has a pretty small sample size. We don't get to see practices and don't know if he has fumble issues or something when he has more opportunities.

Sounds like they caught onto us. Though probably you can avoid it by browsing in a private window.

I wish SDSU had a bye this weekend instead of the travesty of last night :(

ESPN3 is produced by a Big West crew that doesn't travel out of SoCal.

The reason why we always get the ESPN2/U wildcard games is those are produced by a different ESPN crew, and ESPN is probably compensating for our lack of ESPN3 broadcasts a little.

That's my understanding from chatter on the Big West Boards anyway.

We may have started the push a tad early. We'd have to sustain this rate for almost 48 hours to win

There were several fakes as well. You can see a guy starting to run a sweep on the Doss 1-handed catch replay.

Then again I just assumed any sweep was part of the fly scheme, with no specific requirement on how the QB should move.

It's too early to panic. No student currently at UC Davis has any memory of Football being good (the current seniors saw 2, 2, and 3 DI wins per season) and two home blowouts over schools they've never heard of aren't going to reverse a bad image.

The vast disparity between student attendance last game and this game suggests to me that there was a marketing push for UND that we didn't have here -- perhaps because ICA felt they spent their "hype capital", or that they were worried about UCD getting blown out. But I'd expect higher student attendance for Homecoming at least and probably the Poly game.

Let's not forget that MBB and Soccer can fill the stands for big games and WBB often leads the conference in attendance.

There's an inherent advantage to the Wildcat because it's 11v11 vs 10v11 and defenses haven't prepared for it as much. All other things being equal I still would expect it to be better than say a power I in terms of obvious run formations

TD Eags, still the possibility of a shootout

I wanna shut down and retry that last drive

CJ "THE CLOSER" SPENCER

HUGE

Ags up 7-6

Wildcat continues to be effective short yardage situations

Never mind, got it now

Is Pluto working for anybody?

The Weber game gives those predictions credibility. Obviously there were some lapses and correctable mistakes that could have made that a closer game, but the Ags have the capability of being blown out.x

On the other hand I don't think it's reasonable for any FCS team to assume they'll do better against Davis than SDSU did at home. I think we will give up some big plays against the Eags O but it's all a question of how many and whether the Ags can answer.