I don’t think they’ll give him a sixth year, so he’s probably done in college.

If they could have the same size traveling numbers then they would be fine

They would be favored against all by 20 or so of them.

top 90, jumping 12 teams. Just two below Nebraska! The world turned upside down

These homer announcers are really a pain

Is the 3-3-5 their base defense, or something different for us?

Because they are on the cusp of making the playoffs, win or lose this game, the next game and the game after that and the game after that will all be the most important yet; because they are finally playing games that relate to getting into the playoffs and the playoff seeding.
At the end of the year we can decide how good we were.
One of my hopes for this year is that the team gets a win on the road against a conference team we haven’t beaten yet. That’s really the only reason this game is more important than say NAU. But next week it won’t seem that way.

I think it predates the two character state postal code
You weren’t thinking UCB were you?

There are people who aren’t going to pick us over Montana until we’ve beat them once.

Funny how most of the bottom teams in pass defense, efficiency (see above) have played us, I wonder if there is a causal relationship there.

we looked good, but Stanford hadn’t given up a TD in the seven quarters before our game and Maier & Co. couldn’t end that streak. They also stuffed the run pretty good except for a good gain by Modise.

We’re better in pass defense efficiency,
Not great but better than Montana.
PASS DEFENSE EFFIC. G Comp Att Int Pct. Yards TD Effic.
1. Weber State 4 64 134 8 47.8 758 4 93.2
2. Northern Arizona 4 67 134 8 50.0 735 6 98.9
3. Montana State 4 82 135 6 60.7 877 0 106.4
4. Eastern Washington 4 61 107 3 57.0 670 2 110.2
5. Portland State 4 64 115 4 55.7 828 4 120.7
6. Sacramento State 4 56 90 1 62.2 551 3 122.4
7. Idaho State 4 114 189 5 60.3 1234 12 130.8
8. UC Davis 4 78 134 4 58.2 1052 7 135.4
9. Northern Colorado 5 78 126 6 61.9 939 8 135.9
10. Montana 4 53 91 2 58.2 824 5 148.0
11. Idaho 5 82 139 2 59.0 1066 12 149.0
12. Cal Poly 4 81 131 3 61.8 1023 12 153.1
13. Southern Utah 4 73 118 0 61.9 997 8 155.2

yep, but only in yardage. Teams have thrown more against us bexause they are behind. We are #2 against the run because there are relatively less run plays.

A lot of discussion about strength of schedule.
From eastbayaggie on another thread.

Stanford #24
UC Davis #98
Eastern Washington #105
Idaho State #130
Montana #147
Idaho #152
San Jose State #154
Northern Arizona #172
Cal Poly #187
San Diego #189
Sacramento State #199
Northern Colorado #206

If you buy the Massey rankings, the Montana competition is at the same level as Idaho and San Jose state.
So the venue and fans are the new elements plus the long distance road game.

Have to admit Stanford stopped us until garbage time. We looked like we belonged on the field with them but got 3 points.
But the good thing is we are not going to see a level of athleticism that we haven’t seen before. Or anything close.

I agreee we’re far from perfect even though we have a nearly perfect record. I don’t think we should be the 8.5 point favorite that they quote on the Montana board.
I’d rather that we came in overlooked and underestimated. I don’t think a loss would be the huge upset they seem to view it as in Montana.
I think this will be a close game but we’ll pull it out because we’re better at the skill positions. We’re undefeated except for Stanford and an undefeated team has an edge because they expect to win.

It was viewed as a schedule where we could be improved and still have a worse record.Two FBS teams and a transitioning from FBS team etc. San Jose State, Idaho and Cal Poly didn’t play up to their billing; but some of that was us.
We are in the tough home stretch so we won’t count our scalps yet. Just a couple more wins and we will have exceeded expectations; if we haven’t already,

If we had coach Walsh’s philosophy we wouldn’t have bothered to pass.

You can count on it, I think. Plough related in the Montana radio show how the noise messed up Northern Arizona and how he was not popular on the flight home

Big Sky Statistics
CalPoly gives up 9 yards per rush attempt.

RUSHING DEFENSE G Att Yards Avg. TD Yards/G
1. Weber State 4 142 434 3.1 4 108.5
2. Portland State 4 151 608 4.0 8 152.0
3. Idaho State 4 153 711 4.6 6 177.8
4. UC Davis 4 203 731 3.6 6 182.8
5. Northern Arizona 4 165 737 4.5 9 184.2
6. Montana State 4 166 754 4.5 13 188.5
7. Eastern Washington 4 214 777 3.6 5 194.2
8. Northern Colorado 5 231 1087 4.7 16 217.4
9. Idaho 5 209 1247 6.0 7 249.4
10. Cal Poly 4 113 1027 9.1 10 256.8
11. Southern Utah 4 168 1031 6.1 9 257.8
12. Montana 4 233 1124 4.8 11 281.0
13. Sacramento State 4 206 1552 7.5 18 388.0