Montana St 35-0 at half over PSU. Wow

Yardage? How about 417-91

Poly 14-3 over Idaho in 2nd quarter.

still a number of walking wounded in the DL. Cloyd has a broken hand but is playing cuz this is his last hurrah. Corners are hurting, so they are moving people around in the back (backups had trouble last week). It’s gonna take a heck of a coaching effort and gut check from the guys who can play!

last year they were ripe for the picking…..then Lan got hurt. Still had a chance at the end.

The defensive injuries worry me especially at the corner spots. We got exposed last week there

I asked Plough about this and they were arguing Alexander was holding the receiver, but the pass was behind the line making his actions legal.

i think we haven't moved up because prior to this year, there was no place to go. The MWC didn't need another school, and the Pac12 certainly didn't need/want us. That left....the AAC? MAC? We were stuck by geography. Now there are openings but there is a ton of uncertainty going forward with the FBS. Can the San Jose's of that world exist with the new scholarship limits without a big boast in TV revenue (i can't imagine those TruTV and CW broadcasts are big money makers). The whole landscape is screwed up. Hard for me to argue a HUGE investments in funds for a future that is so uncertain; but, then again, i'm conservative when it comes to how i spend my millions!

I think you are correct. There is a big controversy now with San Jose State's team with regard to them having a transgender player. Several MWC teams have chosen to forfeit their matches with the Spartans.

Lou was a LB from 72-74. First team all FWC as a senior. They probably didn’t talk much about his playing days because he was selected for his coaching/contributor. Not sure why they list his time as 1997-2015 in the press release. He coached much earlier than that

I think the answer is ‘no’. I think they’d like at least one more for football scheduling reasons. They’d, of course, like 12 so they can have a playoff but that’s not likely

from a basketball perspective, I think this is great. Back to 10 teams, without the scheduling considerations made for for teams traveling to Hawaii, will mean a more compact conference schedule. No more mid December conference openers (or worse, conference openers during winter break).

Plough said they were hoping he’d be back soon. I thought he might have played against Poly but must not have been cleared. I believe he’s coming back from leg surgery.

that SUU win is looking better (at least according to Sagarin)

I’ll stick with UNC as likely. EWU will take an effort like last Saturday (without allowing as many chunk plays)

Eastern feels more dangerous to me than Idaho did, mainly because they can put up points. Conversely, they seem to be able to give up points at a healthy clip. We're going to have to get off to another fast start, and play a smart, clean game on offense. I feel better about the fact that they don't seem to like to heave it down the field (not exactly a defensive strength of ours).

I just watched the Connor pick 6 and still cant figure out why Wulff was so worked up. It was a screen, our DB was fighting through the block, and Connor snuck in to pick it off. Unless there was something away from the play that set him off, I don't get it.

campus fundraising seems to be doing okay:

https://giving.ucdavis.edu/impacts-giving/campaign-success

we had two turnovers last night - both on trick plays (although the pass from Lan would have likely been a TD had it not been picked), and I don’t remember an offensive penalty into somewhere in the 2nd half. We were laser focused on offense - something that needs to carry forward

I’ll sell you a shredville hat. Feels like I’m advertising a shredding company!

Weber had 5 turnovers, 4 fumbles!

Did the TV guys speculate on why Wulff lost his mind on the pick 6? There seemed to be contact out there, but I’m not sure what allowable especially if pass was behind the line if scrimmage. It seemed like he was directing it toward the referee and/or officials nearer to him which didn’t make sense (off side?). My son pulled up the broadcast in his phone but I couldn’t see anything obvious on that small screen.

By the way, did anyone mention band uniforms were the more traditional blue? I wish they’d ditch some of the time out promos and song snippets between plays (what is that? The best of smooth jazz?) and let them play a bit during the game.

Wonder why no poly band? That has been a big deal for the two bands.

I wonder if our OLman set some kind of (dubious) record of getting two unsportsmanlikes in his only drive of the game ….leading to ejection.