Davidson ran into the Kennesaw grinder out in Georgia in Round 1

Sacred Heart @ Holy Cross - Round 1 (Defensive Battle!)

Wally the Bronco Too is the best FCS game broadcast source on YouTube:

Stephen F. Austin @ Incarnate Word - Round 1

Full Broadcast

University of Tennessee, Martin @ Missouri State - Round 1

He earned it, and his numbers are down this year not for lack of trying, but lack of blocking and scheme for him.

OJ Simpson had "Stadium Watch" as a campus job. He'd show up once a week and see that the stadium was still there, and that was it.

I don't know, after seeing EWU get driven on consistently @ Portland State, I think Eastern's D leaves a bit to be desired. However, the grind is over, it's do or die, so look for an opportunistic defense...looking for turnovers plain and simple. Montana runs a heavy ball control offense, nothing flashy, so if the Eagles can force mistakes it'll really help out EB and Co. Montana is no slouch on defense either, it was a tough matchup going into the 4th quarter earlier this year, and the starting Montana QB got hurt in the second half I believe.

NDSU, Montana and Sac State all got raw deals with their pairings this week. Maybe I'm wrong, but Southern Illinois, EWU and SDSU were all fringe seeds for the playoffs...all playing seeded teams...with the only non-conference matchup being South Dakota State @ Sac.

54% is brutal. That's just unacceptable.

Friday night must watch is EWU @ Montana --- EWU won the first matchup earlier in the year, and an Eagle player was pretty vocal in his criticism about Montana being seeded for the playoffs.

Painful, but here are the homer highlights from SDSU, pathetic crowd, but such is football during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Massive victory for the IW program, they've been getting a lot of talk all season. Impressive team.

Most of these guys are out of Davis' league, but I enjoyed the on-field film for the Mater Dei vs. Servite game played in Anaheim last night. Of note, a lawsuit was recently filed against the Mater Dei program on behalf of a former player alleging that ritual hazing led to a brain injury. The LA Times and OC Register are all over it.

The game plans have been bad and the execution looks to be a combination of being outmatched and a lot of frustration.

As for the out-of-conference match-ups...sounds like we're just not making enough phone calls, or aren't looking and lobbying as hard as we should in advance. I mean, Davis should honestly have their 2022 schedule set, should've been set last year, had nothing but time on our hands.

Looks like San Diego doesn't have a set schedule yet except for the 9/10/22 game @ Poly.

Maybe we can get Portland State to come down...but that would mean 4 straight road games for them to open '22. That isn't happening, and 3 of those games are @ SJSU, @ Washington and @ Montana...yikes.

We're probably looking out of conference.

Whatever we do RA, we need to move people and we need to move them consistently.

Jackedforlife, thanks for your input on the Davis board. Aggies have a long relationship with South Dakota State, and certainly, seeing the progress over the last decade in Brookings, it's something to aspire to.

I was in Brookings back in 2010 I believe on at a student conference (in Fargo). There was not much to see between Fargo and Brookings on that bus ride, but you can see that in both communities, football means a lot and the gameday experience is obviously very active and lively.

Gilliam's swan son in '22. Need to put in the work and see him off right.

Tough as a mother schedule next season -- who will Davis get Week 3? Looking at 5 home games again, it's good to have a close one @ Sac though.
2022 (upd. 7/25/21)
Sat., Sep. 3 at Cal - California Memorial Stadium - Berkeley, CA, TBD
Sat., Sep. 10 at South Dakota State - Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium - Brookings, SD, TBD
Sat. Sept. 17 - OPEN DATE
Sat., Sept. 24 vs. Weber State - UC Davis Health Stadium - Davis, CA*, TBD
Sat., Oct. 1 at Montana State - Bobcat Stadium - Bozeman, MT* - TBD
Sat., Oct. 8 - OPEN DATE
Sat., Oct. 15 vs. Northern Arizona - UC Davis Health Stadium - Davis, CA*, TBD
Sat. Oct. 22 at Northern Colorado - Nottingham Field - Greeley, CO*, TBD
Sat., Oct. 29 vs. Cal Poly - UC Davis Health Stadium - Davis, CA*+, TBD
Sat., Nov. 5 vs. Idaho State - UC Davis Health Stadium - Davis, CA*, TBD
Sat., Nov. 12 at Idaho - Kibbie Dome - Moscow, ID*, TBD
Sat., Nov. 19 at Sacramento State - Hornet Stadium - Sacramento, CA*$, TBD