I would hope we would jump to 2, or maybe even 1 depending on if South Dakota beats North Dakota St.

UCD: 11-0 in FCS, wins over 2 top-10 teams (Idaho and Mont St) and maybe a third (Mont if they beat Mont St).
SDST: 9-1 in FCS, wins over 2 top-10 teams (South Dakota and Incarnate Word), two wins over top-15ish teams (Missouri St, who is transitioning but might finish 8-4, and Illinois St).
South Dakota: 7-2 in FCS, but no ranked wins. Alt would be if they beat NDST, they're 8-1 in FCS but only the 1 top-5 win.
NDST: 11-0 in FCS, wins over a top-3/4 SDST, a top 5-8ish South Dakota (depending on the loss), two top-15 wins (Missouri St and Illinois St) and another top-25 win (East Tenn St). Only loss to a good Colorado team by 5. So they're ahead of us if they win out. If they lose to South Dakota, then it's closer and you could make an argument for us to be 1.

Correct. #1 and #2 teams get 3 home games if they don't lose. #3 an #4 get 2 home games at least (potential for more if the seeds above win). #5-#8 get one home game for sure.

2018, They had a first round bye.
The Reno game was November 17th, Thanksgiving was the 22nd and they played in Davis on December 1st vs UNI.

thanksgiving was early in 2018 (11/28) so no excuse for low turnout. My memory is that the place was pretty full., certainly not 1/4 below ‘capacity’. Of course. My memory might be faulty!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_UC_Davis_Aggies_football_team

November had five Thursdays that year, so Thanksgiving was the 22nd. When it has 5 Thursdays, the last ones (29th or 30th) are after. It can fall between 11/22 and 11/28. Whereas this year it has 4 so it falls on the 28th, my dad and neice's birthdays.

Either way, a bye would be nice.

I seem to remember we had a pretty good crowd for UNI game and the crowd was more vocal in their support than the typical "politely quiet" Aggie crowd.

Agreed. The best "crowd" we remember experiencing, despite the attendance total numbers.

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Even the SDSU podcast guys acknowledge Davis would jump to #2 if Davis wins out. Getting home games through the semifinals would be huge.