Beautiful set of downs at tempo with the same TD play that got us on the board last week

Lol it's almost like Hawkins responded to them. Commentators cast doubt on the #10 ranking; Hawk immediately pulls out a trick play and then skewers them with Tompkins

Commentators are not complimentary about UCD's defense but they're actually doing pretty well, just not being given any breaks

Disaster

TD GILLIAM!

Good drive, took advantage of a favorable field situation, got the ball to the best runners and good things happened

Oof Castles ran into the concrete looks like, that could be really severe

I've been following the San Diego State season this year as well which has remarkably a similar trajectory to UCD's. Good defense and punting keeping them in games, a LOT of inconsistency on offense and questions at QB.

The difference with SDSU, though, is that once they have some jitters they settle in with some good high-reward, low-risk downhill running that generally keeps drives alive and avoid procedural errors and turnovers. I just don't see that recognition or composure to find what works and stick with it from the Aggies this year

There was some success earlier where Hastings was just getting the ball off to the usual suspects quickly and it was the only non-Trent thing that really worked against Poly

And here's Magic

To my untrained eye when HR or Magic are in at QB the offense behaves a bit like a triple option, but is much more traditional when Hastings is in even when they're technically running the same looks. Easier to defend his passes when it's more obvious when he's going to pass and has less time

Easier to block when you get a head start, I'll give Special Teams a pass for this one

Offense looks ok when we're not making procedural mistakes and just getting plays off fast

The days of being at a speed and size disadvantage at every position seem to be gone so we really need to see more of just decent ball movement and sustained drives. Not asking for the world, just consistency

Offense just looks unprepared

Repeat of my usual complaint that if we're going to stick with our academic recruiting limitations then the expectation should be that UCD is always the most prepared and well-executing team on the field, when frequently it's the other way around

Defense = on point
Special teams = clicking
Uniforms = crisp
Offense

Hastings?

Weber up by 14 after the two-point conversion

This actually doesn't affect Ags' conference hopes as much as one would expect, but it would be good for our resume at this point if Weber shows improvement

Looks like slight chance of precipitation in SLO but not much. When I saw the dreary weather in the SLO pictures on the football team's Instagram I got instinctively scared, but honestly UCD is so run-heavy that rain might benefit the Ags more than Cal Poly. Still getting used to thinking of them as anything other than a pure option team

There's no Cal Davis logo in the rotation. Script Davis is probably the closest we have to that but it's always stand-alone in that form

Though I understand Daft is not entirely to blame for the offense under Gould, I don't think it should be forgotten that he was a key staff member, arguably THE key one after the HC himself, during the objectively worst stretch of UC Davis football history in decades. And where we were particularly plagued by utterly predictable and stale playcalling and bad clock management.

It looks like he's rebounded and found a good gig at Dartmouth, and if that leads to an HC job there or a bigger OC job elsewhere that's great and he can continue to spread Aggie Pride and Sochor's legacy there. But building a winning culture at Davis means that our AD has to emphasize that performance matters when hiring and especially re-hiring people, so I'm hoping that Daft makes his way elsewhere for a few years. I don't feel bad saying this because it doesn't look like he'll be short on work anytime soon.

I'm convinced that the tilted block UC DAVIS is purely designed to be visible from a distance/on TV/ on a small screen and was not chosen for actual aesthetics. It does succeed on that front