Running against their size was like trying to run through a brick wall but Lonzo had 64 yards on 25 rushes and it kept their D honest.

California not liked most places, so nothing new. Montana had more hostile environment
This game is not the upset the Stanford game was because that was by a Davis team still transitioning from D2, over a power conference team, that can recruit almost anyone they want.
Tonight’s was over a team that recruits a lot of the 3star type of recruits we get. They have more scholarships, and hence more depth than we do. Likely better talent than anyone else we will play this year, so still a great achievement beating them.

I expect those rushing numbers to look much better against San Diego

Tulsa came into this game with the better resume, going 6-3 against some decent comp. and playing for league title game, almost beating an SEC team on the road. Once Trent Edwards went down, Stanford was in trouble. I would say Tulsa's D definitely better.

IMO, the Big Sky is the best FCS football conference in the country. — movielover

I'm not sure if the Big Sky is the best, because I don't pay enough attention to FCS football, but the Big Sky, Missouri Valley and Colonial are consistently stacked year after year.

Ran across a "Survival Pool" on an OK St. board just now--about a quarter of the players had picked Tulsa. Oops. :lol:

College Football Reference had Stanford as 59th team, rated by SRS, last year's Tulsa team was 40th.

Stanford was poorly coached. We also beat their coach when he was at UOP.
Stanford’s starting QB hurt his hand in first half and had to leave game. Backup was not ready to play, even though I think he went on to do well, I think he was drafted. They had an unstoppable runner who ran through #8 UCLA like a knife through butter, but they didn’t use him.

Pat Forde checks in:

and

SO MANY quotes of that on twitter right now. :lol:

Well, whatever. A great win for the Aggies. I too had doubts about the three man D line we were using and Tulsa was running right thru it. But it tightened in the end. This was a very hard ESPN game to actually hear because of the totally home town announcing, but the win makes it so much better. And the one guy who played at Houston was very fair at the end of the day. Gave a lot of credit to the Ags as he should have. Tough win.

And we didn’t see an injured Aggie! Our team seems extremely fit. No cramps for us,

Some happy boys!

Happy flight home!!

Tulsa World: UC Davis 19, Tulsa 17: Aggies shock Hurricane in season opener

"An uninspiring and uneven performance in the season opener turned into a full-blown disaster Thursday night for the University of Tulsa, which lost to an FCS-level team for the first time in 35 years.

"A three-touchdown favorite, the Hurricane was affected by costly suspensions, avoidable penalties and a general lack of efficiency, resulting in a dismal 19-17 defeat against UC Davis at H.A. Chapman Stadium....

".... I’m not taking anything away from UC Davis, but I felt like most of the time it was us stopping us and not the other way around...."

240,000+ followers & good picture

Brett McMurphy@Brett_McMurphy

Huge win for Dan Hawkins & UC Davis over Tulsa. Aggies were prohibitive underdogs but upset TU 19-17 #GreenDotCity

https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1433623277428166660?s=20

FWIW, EWU & UNLV tied 20-20 in the 4th Q.

Hawks take to a writer.

https://twitter.com/BrianMacWriter/status/1433642973863030786?s=20

EWU beats UNLV in 2OT.

Bob Dunning was right in calling a win though he was off by two points.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32137861/fcs-school-uc-davis-shocks-heavy-favorite-tulsa-season-opener

man, I’m glad they play football better than they sing. Compressed a fight song ranging about 1.5 octaves to about a third. But at least they are singing the fight song and no one can take that away despite what they did to the Aggie Band- uh.

So when you say Californians are not well-liked in Tulsa do you mean the residents were rude to you at the game or the townspeople were just rude in general ? And is this typical of Oklahomans in general ?

I am asking because I have a trip planned to OKC in a few weeks.

How very elevated the board content is. I don't believe anyone mentioned what Tulsa spelled backwards is.

Congrats on the big win.

69aggie and movielover. You both left Gomez off the list of game mvps. 47 yarder and 3 more - rock solid straight and high. I couldn’t help but contrast that with the pathetic kicking game at Stanford in 2005 that nearly lost the game.

After Thursday games of week 1, Massey has the Aggies ranked as the #1 FCS team in the country! Enjoy it for a couple days hahaha.

That’s funny. At least they didn’t try to sing the Alma Mater. Outside the band, and apparently the football team, I wonder how many other students know the words to Aggie Fight?

don’t forget Gomez;4-4 on FGs

Haven’t seen one word about the game from the local TV stations. Kcra ran a special on Sac’s practice, yet said nada about our win.

Luka Nixon didn’t play. According to the official stats. Key player for us this spring. Can’t tell who started in his place.

From the Tulsa post-game quotes:







Post-game comments here: https://tulsahurricane.com/documents/2021/9/3//All_quotes_UC_Davis.pdf?id=31912