Bob Dunning mentioned the following about Sac State's, brutal opener against the the Saint Francis of Illinois Fighting Saints:
"EVEN MORE FOOTBALL … an attractive and very large ad in a nearby newspaper featured an excellent 2-for-1 ticket offer for Sac State’s season football opener Saturday night without a mention of where the game will be played or who the opponent is …
Because I am an ace investigative journalist with sources all over the country, I was able to determine that Saturday’s opponent is St. Francis of Illinois, known as the “Fighting Saints,” which is a bit of an oxymoron in my book … the Hornets were very good last year and may be even better this year, but an ad like this doesn’t do anything to help the cause …"
Davis Enterprise: Minefield of a schedule ahead for UC Davis football
Excerpt: "...fasten your seatbelt, coach, because the 2018 schedule at least is equally as daunting, starting with two Football Bowl Subdivision opponents in the first three weeks and finishing with a murderer’s row of Montana, Northern Arizona, Eastern Washington and Sacramento State.
“There is no different (preparation) based on opponent since this is a talented conference from top to bottom,” Hawkins notes. “There are no easy weeks. We just focus on our upcoming opponent and playing the best football. In this conference, every game is decided by a few plays. The team that makes those plays, more often than not, earns the win.”
NDSU 49 Cal Poly 3 Final
McNeese State 17 Northern Colorado 14 Final
EWU 58 Central Washington 13 Final
NAU 17 UTEP 7 with 15 seconds to go in the half
SUU 10 North Alabama 10 with 6:47 to go in the 2nd
in my youth, there was a weekly feature in the paper ‘the bottom ten’, a humorous take on the worst teams in the NCAA. UTEP was a staple and referred to as ‘University of Texas El Intercepted Passo’
Cal Poly has never matched up well with NDSU. Back in 2006 Cal Poly was 7-4 on the season with a win over San Diego State and a last minute 9-10 defeat on the road to #2 ranked Montana. That team went to Fargo and lost 51-14. I am not throwing in the towel just yet. I am hoping we can bounce back next weekend at home against a very good Weber State team.
Walsh said in post game he may be done for the season. If so I really feel for the kid. He had the talent to be a 3 year starter. He burned his redshirt year his true Freshman season to start one game that Brown was hurt (thus allowing Dano Graves to redshirt and start the following year ahead of him). He then get the starting job last year to only missed the last 6 games to injury. He battled back and and may now only plays one game his senior season. I am hoping it is not as bad as it sounds.
We are better shape to replace him this year than last. Jake Jeffrey has 6 starts under his belt and I think he will have to fend off Rfr Kyle Reid who I think will get the call if Jenkins is out for the year. The most talented QB on the team may be true freshman Jalen Hamler. I do not think we would have seen him play last year, but with the new rule allowing him to play 4 games and still keep his redshirt we may see him some this year.
That's brutal, never like seeing this guys getting injured to that extent... even on a rival team. Best of luck to him. As long as you guys can keep Joe P healthy, you will be a threat in Big Sky play.
NC A&T beat East Carolina
NAU throttles Texas El Intercepted Passo
Villanova beat Temple (huge in town upset)
Nichols State beat Kansas
Howard played Ohio tough
Penn State needed OT to beat Appy
South Dakota took Kansas State to the wire
...and UC Davis dropped 44 on SJSU aka TTU...could've been a Fifty Burger with some made field goals.
Now, no sleeping on San Diego, well coached, well funded, nothing to lose, smart bunch who play sound.
Maybe I missed it last year, but the new uniforms are a great improvement; especially the use of the old “CA” helmet logo somewhat modernized. The I love the Gunrock idea, but the logo is just way too complex to be part of a sports uniform in this day and age where simplicity rules the day. Bet that Hawk was in on that change.
NDSU is like the Alabama of FCS currently . They know they're the big fish in a small pond and, if they move up, then they're a small fish in a big pond.
NDSU leads the series 4-3 including a 31-28 victory in the last meeting Nov. 10, 2007, in San Luis Obispo, Calif. The Bison scored 22 straight points in the final 10 minutes of the game to erase a 28-9 deficit and won it with Kole Heckendorf's 80-yard touchdown reception from Steve Walker with 38 seconds to go.
Matches up ok in 2007. Nobody has matched up well with NDSU lately except for JMU. Recently, the 2 programs have been going in opposite directions. Line of scrimmage was dominated by NDSU - didn’t need to pass.