it’s clearly better than Cal. (Disclaimer my daughter went to school at UCLA for eight years)
Would you rather be in Westwood or Berkeley? Would you rather go to Santa Monica or Emeryville? Oakland or Los Angeles?
Not to mention if you’re interested in health care, the best hospital is on campus. Its better the UCSF because UCSF is split between several campuses.

Maybe they’re just jealous of Boise, an upstart JC that passed them by as the state hi profile team.

Agreed, we should be favored. They didn’t come close to stopping us in our first game with a new OC and new QB. We were very tentative in that game with HR making his first start, he didn’t throw a pass until late in the second quarter If my memory serves. Then they were helpless to stop him. Our running game ran through them at almost 5 yards a carry.
There is more parity in the Big Sky than appears in the rankings and we have to respect Idaho. But we were better than them then, and we’ve shown way more this year than they have.

Yeah and we have to remember they had a lot of guys out due to Covid protocols last time we played them.

Sagarin ratings, getting close to being top 100
101 Florida State A = 64.49 0 4
102 Central Michigan A = 64.02
103 East Carolina A = 63.52
104 Washington State A = 63.48
105 Colorado A = 62.89
106 UC Davis AA = 62.42
107 Troy A = 62.07
108 Miami-Ohio A = 61.86

http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm

A lot of these teams used to be in the college division polls before the stated with the div 2 division 3 nomenclature. Delaware was always a team I wanted to see play because they ran the wing t.

Few FCS teams would beat Weber and Tulsa, so that much about it is correct.
They probably still have some weight given to how strong these teams were at the end of last season, and those two were great and San Diego was respectable.
Its an interesting strength if schedule algorithm, as most would not overlook that we haven’t beat anyone with more than 1 win.

The main advantage of the wildcat is that there are no spectators, like the QB usually is on a running play. So it’s a way to get more blockers than defenders at the point of attack.
Didn’t work so well with CJ but Biggs went with it to begin with with April because we had no short yardage run capability, because our line wasn’t physical.

It helps to have blockers

Hastings surprised them and the receivers really made tough catches.
But it’s a little incongruous to here from a team that’s expecting their own backup QB to perform

The article is worth reading just for the quarterback thinking Rogers was blitzing. We only rushed four.
I bet he’s hurting today,

The Weber QB thinks his hurry by Bryce Rodger was a blitz. Maybe a blitzkrieg. Rodgers wasn’t left unattended due to a blitz, he was hand fighting and got by the offensive lineman with a move. Came like a torpedo trailing an offensive linemen behind him in his wake
And did you know CJ Hutton fell down of his own accord?
And that on the roughing the passer, the defensive end “just came down in the vicinity” of Rodrigues. Its ok for a sportswriter to present his opinion, but to deny that there was any basis for the calls whatsoever is a little much Rodriguez was off balance from throwing off his back foot and got pushed by an extended arm intentionally. Not grievous but there was a basis for the call.

https://www.standard.net/sports/weber-state/2021/sep/25/weber-state-football-uc-davis-score-recap/

You can see on the video above that we only rushed four, Rodgers just beat his blocker in about 2 seconds

Me too. This season would have been a huge disappointment to me regardless of the rest of the games if we lost to both Weber and eastern again.

Weber, San Diego, Tulsa will improve their records. Tulsa is projected to win five more games. Weber is projected to win five or six more games, San Diego projected to win six more games. The aggregate records of our opponents look bad now but will be more respectable by end of season.Weber is projected to lose to only Eastern and is an even pick against Montana State. I can imagine them beating either.

Wonder how Tim Plough is doing? Boise over Utah State

https://www.idahopress.com/blueturfsports/mike-prater-boise-state-rises-to-the-occasion-to-save-its-season/article_610541be-9888-5c06-b0d3-472c4196042d.html

• Offensive coordinator Tim Plough came out of the press box, and coached on the sideline at the request of players. They wanted his energy and sense of urgency — and Plough responded by calling a masterful game.

His creativity created chaos. Five different players took snaps. Nine different players carried the ball behind a line that continues to play more soft than physical. There were 18 rushing attempts from non-running backs. Eleven players caught passes. There were wildcat formations. Jet sweeps. Misdirection all over the place.

“We have a bunch of guys on our team that need to touch the ball,’’ Plough said.

Massey has us favored by 8. I don’t know how anyone can guess based on this seasons scores. I wonder how their morale is.

I think our strength of schedule hurts us. Even though we’ve played two teams that are objectively impressive wins in Tulsa and Weber on the road, they’re both just 1-3.
Not to mention Dixie whose played a crazy schedule and San Diego whose having a bad year. No way is our schedule the 199th in the country though, it was tougher than that.

Miles was the first guy who committed that year, we made him an early offer. So he’s someone we liked a lot.

I think he’s a lot like Hunter, His highlights are mostly a pocket passer but he has mobility and can throw on the move.

Defensive holding still would have been a first down at the six. We would have scored anyway

I think the ball might have been thrown differently if the target hadn’t been taken down. Defensive holding vs pass interference is the question not pass interference or no penalty

Even with Hastings our receivers had to catch contested balls, and made great catches. In contrast theirs were rarely contested. We can’t play against Eastern like that.