Montana State 47 Wagner 24
Western Illinois 31 Montana 27
Sac State 28 Northern CO 25
PSU 63 College of Idaho 14
Cal 39 Idaho State 9 with 10:23 to go in the 4th
WSU 14 EWU 0 with 14:11 to go in the 2nd
Weber State 11 0 with 14:55 to go in the 2nd
Wonder what the travel arrangements were for USD at Harvard and Brown at Cal Poly on Friday. I think some of these FCS teams travel cross-country on game day or take red-eye plane flights to save hotel costs. Didn't Davis do something like that a few years ago when they played Northeastern, and Iona do something like that when they flew out here.
Then again I may be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
Dr. Mille. Watched this last night 60 minute version on PAC-12 network last night after returning from west coast. The score is not indicative of the game. It was 45-9 until a couple late scores by ISU. Unlike UCD Stanford in which both sides played subs at the same time, Kal put in their scrubs early and ISU went with first stringers to the end. Two late scores. QB Gueller passes almost exclusively to his wideout brother. His bro is good but if you stop that, there goes there passing game. ISU also suffered from poor tackling. Cal was rotating a couple QB’s.
Real shocker to me was Weber over South Dakota. Sounds like USD had some early guffaws. I know Utah has a pretty good defense, but watching the Weber-Utah game Weber looked pretty bad. Something like 67 yards total offense for the entire game. I think Weber has switched QBs. It was pretty obvious they missed cantwell from last year.
Southern Utah offensive line is very good. So. Utah did relatively well against Arizona, but the big difference was the advantage in team speed that Arizona had that So. Utah defense was unable to contain. So. Utah is a pretty decent 0-3 team - I think they are better than Weber- time will tell. Eastern Washington’s offense showed well agains Wassu but had same problem on D as So. Utah. NAU hasn’t recovered since playoff shellacking by USD (UTEP is bad) so I don’t see them having any playoff potential this year.
To be totally fair to NAU, they played this game with their back up QB... who also played part of the game against EWU when Cookus went down with an injury. I don't know his time table for return though.
yah, Montana State lost their QB too. But, I don’t think Cookus is quite the QB that he was projected to be. Getting thwacked by Mo. State that badly is problematic even without first string QB. Will be interesting to see how things play out - this is the big sky and anything could happen. In my mind the Ags are clearly the most improved team this year.