After an explosive win against Southern Utah the Aggies welcome the Wildcats of Weber State to Davis as Big Sky Conference play starts this upcoming weekend. Weber comes into this contest with a 2-2 record - L 10-45 @ James Madison, L 3-48 @ Arizona, W 42-41 @ McNeese, W 38-24 vs Butler. The Wildcats are averaging 305.2 yards of offense per game, while allowing 449.8 yards per game. It's tough to know where the Wildcats really stand because they have 2 blowout losses to FBS teams, but their wins are against a now 1-3 McNeese and a Pioneer team.
Players to watch
- QB Jackson Gilkey - The Wildcat offense runs through the 6'2 215 sophomore and it's safe to say that so far this season he has STRUGGLED as a passer. Through 4 games, Gilkey has completed 48% of his passes for 555 yards. He's thrown 4 passing TDs while having already thrown 9 INTs... woof. He is a mobile QB and has rushed 206 yards with 1 rushing TD.
- RB Davion Godley - The sophomore RB had extremely modest games against James Madison, Arizona, and McNeese, but EXPLODED for 193 yards and a TD against Butler. With how the Aggies looked in run defense against Southern Utah, I would expect the Wildcats to be dialing up a lot of touches for Godley.
- WR Jayleen Record - The Wildcats leading receiver so far 10 receptions for 135 yards and 1 TD. Similarly to the Aggies, the Wildcats have not been a pass heavy team so none of their receivers have eye popping stats so far.
- LB Mayson Hitchens - Hitchens leads the Wildcat defense with 26 total tackles with 2.5 tackles for loss.
- DB Angel King - King is 2nd in total tackles with 23 and leads the team with 2 INTs.
For what it's worth, Massey is currently giving the Aggies a 72% chance of winning. If we get a good crowd and force their QB into making some bad decisions (which he has been prone to this season) then I think the Ags have a decently good shot at winning.
I fear we may have lost Winston Williams. He went out of the game with a right leg injury and was in street clothes with a leg brace in the second half. I hoping for the best but that injury looked serious...
I agee. I can't think of an Aggie game that had more explosive plays on offensive and special team (and expletive on that damned pouch kick!). this team has weapons all around. I fear we lost Williams but Dixon and Simpson are more than enough.
A big question for me is do we repeat the pattern of past years, attendance-wise? Big "Back to School Day" attendance followed by disappointing attendance the following home game:
2022
San Diego 14,394 (Welcome Back Week)
Weber St. 8,822
2023
Eastern 14,724 (Back to School Day)
Montana 9,576 (Homecoming)
2024
Utah Tech 14,832 (Back to School Day)
#5 Idaho 8,921
2025
Southern Utah 17,217 (Back to School Night)
Weber St. 9,000? (Ag Day)
There has to be a way to get the students to show up for more than 1 game a year.