Sagarin has Davis rated as the 87th best team in the country, certainly the highest they have ever been late in the season, jumping up from 104 last week.
Sagarins’ normal rating has Davis as a touchdown underdog, their experimental method where they have individualized home and away weighting has Davis almost a two touchdown underdog, and their Eigenvector method has Davis favored by two points.

UCLA from the start didn’t want to be UC Los Angeles whereas Cal was UC period. The use of the initials obscures the association, so UCLA made sure that was how the school was referenced. UCLA is claimed to be the most recognized college name internationally even though many don’t associate it with the University of California.
Cal Davis or University or California Davis or UC Davis all give the impression of a subsidiary association with the Berkeley campus which owns in public perception the labels Cal, or University of California or UC.
UCLA did start as a subsidiary campus, they didn’t get their own Chancellor until 1951

My speculation is we are near the end of the graduate transfer era due to the COVID year aging out., and transfers will be more juniors and below. Davis has benefited from those types of transfers. I think we may see highly regarded high school recruits who didn’t earn playing time moving between teams as much as big programs poaching stars.

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The lemon C A logo makes objecting to being called Cal Davis seem petty. The team was called Cal Davis when they had that logo. What does the C denote?
UCLA never wanted to be called University of California Los Angeles, because they didn’t want to market as a branch campus. Short names are better. Ideally the name would be Davis.

I find myself rooting against Idaho, based on the Tubs guys preseason claim that Idaho was in an higher tier of conference teams than Davis. Rationally I should be rooting for Idaho as they are certainly a tier below Montana State, but I probably won’t,

And only one starter but the team was starting to use depth at DL by bringing in some pass rushers, Carrillo being among the best at that among the D Linemen.
They did that all last year, but not early this year.

It seemed to me that more players participated, on both offense and defense, and even early in the game. Unfortunately the game stats for participation are visibly messed up but it lists 62 players as playing, that would be virtually everyone who dressed.

yep

. I haven’t seen Tyson McWilliams, injured against Sac

Larison, Teddye Buchanan, Tehran Thomas and dozens of others played QB in H.S. were recruited to play other positions here from the get go. Most the recent QBs are QB prospects as was Trent Tompkins. Trent had a legitimate shot at playing QB.

My reading says the elimination of the NLI took effect already, in October.. It replaces a one size fits all letter with contractual documents. More work for lawyers, more negotiation of terms. Athletes are still bound to whatever they sign, but the terms of the contract are not as uniform.

. It looks like it opened at 7.5 and the line moved based on bets over the last couple of days.

You can’t assume that Doss and Harrell would have had the catches they did on a team that was featuring Larison and vice versa, there are a limited number of touches.

It would be nice if they had Doss, but it would be nice if the current team had Gilliam, a pre-injury Thomas and had Amoah and Ford.

Davis went multiple decades with a no sorority policy due to some vote of the women students in the sixties..

If you want to get women to games it needs to be a social event. UCLA had a parent’s weekend and the Sorority chartered a bus to go to the game with parents. So the girls, boy friends and parents all went.

Davis is 58% women students. International students make up 17% of the student body, so the density of preexisting football fans is low.
Davis prides itself on its admitting 37% first generation college students, so many have no family tradition of being a fan of college sports in general

Even Montana had empty seats it was only about half of capacity.

Have you noticed the empty seats at all of the FCS playoff games on TV? There were 3220 at the Richmond game.

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There are pictures of Tyler Parker as a muscular 290lbs when he was 14.
You can understand why people projected him to keep growing.

I suspect there will be a few transfers, specialists seem to transfer more than anyone.

I don’t mind a work in progress, but since I don’t use instagram there is nothing for me to look at.

The ucdavisaggies.com site briefly had a signing day central that listed 19 signess, but the individual signee links led to page not found errors.