At least in my opinion (which isn't worth much to be perfectly honest) the only thing that I find worrisome about this game against Commerce is the "unknown factor" with having a new coach/system. Commerce relied a lot on their defense last season to keep them in games, but they've lost their top 2 tacklers, leader in sacks, and leader in interceptions from last season. On offense they may be without their dual threat QB from last season and lost their go to receiver. But I guess my point is that who knows if any of that really matters when you're going to have new schemes, new playbook, etc. Cal Poly, Sac State, and Weber all kind of fall in the same category for me in that they could fall anywhere on the spectrum between significantly worse to significantly better... there's just no way to know.

That being said, I believe that the Aggies are going to leave Texas with a W.

We're 1 week away! GO AGS!

I'm sure that the offense will look different with a new guy at the helm, but I don't think it can be understated how critical Armstrong (the receiver that went to Arkansas) was to what offense they had last season. The team as a whole had 20 passing TDs on the season with 13 of those going to Armstrong. I'm sure some of their other guys will step up in his absence, but you don't easily just replace that kind of production.

Hutton, Davis, Kraft, and Tompkins first to be singled out for the WR group and Gale was called the starter for TE at this time.

We could be playing Georgia and still get an Ags by 1 prediction :lol:

In terms of kickoffs, I'm pretty much always against attempting strategic short kicking. Boot it out the back of the endzone every time.

I have not been able to find one. Not sure if one exists.

I'm really intrigued to see how much gametime freshman Mascheroni gets. He's a much bigger body than most of our returning contributors and his tape shows speed and sticky hands (of course that's the point of highlight tape). We need a guy who can just get open downfield though, I agree with you.

As long as the kicking and punting isn't noticeably bad then I am happy. Hopefully we just don't have to see much kicking and punting this season in general :grin:

I think one position I have questions about (and I had the same question last season) is if someone will step up at WR and be THE go to guy. We have depth, but not that Keelan Doss caliber player that can change the offense.

This is true. Even at positions like RB where we lost Gilliam we return plenty of experience with Larison and Perez. I think Fisher could get carries as a freshman too.

I'm not saying this is a sure fire win or anything like that, but with the experience that this team has especially playing quality opponents, I would be pretty damn disappointed if we lose this game.

I was listening to a Commerce podcast and they were saying that their starting QB from last season may be a no go to start the season against the Aggies due to a lingering injury. It's tough to know what we're actually going up against considering they have a revamped offense, have brought in a lot of transfer portal players, and return a pretty solid looking defense... but I will say this, a loss in any capacity in this game is not acceptable if we're pushing for the playoffs this year. We have what looks like at this point in time a pretty favorable conference schedule and we really need to come out of non-conference play 2-1.

In the same podcast that I was listening to the hosts gave each other 5 categories to pick from for predicting the Davis game (likely loss, possible loss, toss up, possible win, and likely win) and they both picked possible win which was a little surprising to me, but I guess it shows they have confidence going into this season.

Idaho is definitely benefitting from having a competent coach at the helm as well as a rising star QB in McCoy to lead what should be a vicious passing attack with Jackson and Hatten, but to a certain degree I feel like they are currently overrated despite being a playoff team last year. I see them as top 15, not necessarily top 10 or better that some polls have them in. That's not to say that they won't continue to improve and could be very good this year. In fact, if they can keep the coaching staff together then they could push to become a FCS powerhouse with the resources they have. They have a tough schedule with 2 FBS (even if Nevada was very bad last season), both Montanas, Sac and Weber (both have new coaches and player turnover). They could end up in a situation similar to us like last season where we were likely better than a handful of teams that made the playoffs, but the record simply wouldn't get us in.

I saw some folks online just calling for a California conference. The implosion of the Pac 12 could have a huge impact on the future of west coast football.

California
Cal Poly
Fresno State
Sacramento State
San Diego State
San Jose State
Stanford
UC Davis

It's pretty bad. For reference, this is what SJSU is sending out as their official offer graphic in comparison to ours.

Kids post all kinds of pictures in regards to offers. Most post pictures when they receive verbal offers and they either make those themselves or get them from private graphic design stores online. A dead period just ended so schools were sending out "official" offers as opposed to just the verbal offers and this is the pic that came with ours. Pretty much all schools do the same thing.

That is the official image being sent to the players from the team. A lot of the guys who we already knew had offers are posting the same one. Whoever created the picture certainly made some choices... not sure if good ones, but choices nonetheless.

New offer on RB Beau Phillips out of Snoqualmie, WA! GO AGS!

Per 247, 3 star QB Damon Wrighster will be on campus for a visit tomorrow. Will be interesting to see if we can land a commitment.

Maybe I'm just misremembering, but this feels like the first time in awhile that the coaches have ranked us higher than the media.