TAMUC has a linebacker, Turner, who had 15 tackles against SDSU. He is a R-Soph in the roster.but is now on the Senior bowl watch list, so I guess they decided he is a senior, hard to tell sophomores.from seniors these days.
He didn't play for them last year so he may improve their defence over last year.
On the other hand they don't have the defensive tackle who was a sixth round pick and made the NFL team.

If you look at the drive chart the Aztecs had punt punt FG punt downs FGA in the first half
In the second half it was TD TD TD TD downs. Plus an interception for a TD.
Quite an avalanche.

Plough said in one of his interviews, i don’t recall which, that they look for signs teams are vulnerable to tempo, example being the San Jose State game. He said in another interview that tempo was a big thing for a while but teams are better prepared for iit.
Shortening the game makes sense when playing against better opponents. It is like being in a casino, your probability of walking out with money decreases with the number of bets, the odds catch up with you.
It remains to be seen how much Plough is going to feature Larison. They threw to him 7 times with 1 completion. I think he has got to be running from scrimmage against FCS opponents more than he did against Cal.

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Somehow the Tubs at the Club guys mentioned David Myer and Rex Connors, but not Porter.
Davis defense played solid as a whole. Even some of the substitute d-line players made plays., secondary as a whole had a great game. Holding Cal to under 300 yards is a noteworthy achievement and the defense was still sound in the 4th quarter. I think categorizing the game as a typical FCS FBS game where the FCS team wore down is wrong.

I said a few weeks ago that I feared there was a good chance Idaho would be 1 - 3 when they played us. I was hoping they would be ranked as Davis needs a quality win to get ranked as most of the tough games are at the end. Hard to move up when you don’t play teams with a reputation.

South Alabama wasn’t transitioning, they were starting their program in Division 1.

Not as fast as Chukwudobe or Colton Silveria ran in high school.
Slightly faster then Cole Wright the Boise transfer.
I’m sure we’ve had many others faster than him in the 100. I think he is elusively quick.

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Don’t want to count chickens before they hatch, but It comes down to ranking and record. If Davis and Sac are both ranked similarly, the loser won’t drop much in the polls. But to be a sure thing to get in, even at 8-4 I think they need a signature win. That is almost a sure thing, but not a certainty, depending on the seasons some of their victims have. For example Its possible to be 8-1 and then lose the last three games, and then you have to hope your team has a win over a ranked team earlier in season.

Larison should have got it for his 2 tackles.

Eck had no sacks, no fumble recovery for a touchdown and one more tackle, so of course he deserved it.(sarcasm).

In contrast, Cal had a big play with Ott, by just having him help out to block and then releasing into the flat. Cal was watching Larison wherever he went, Davis wasn’t watching Ott on that play.

The guy kicking off, Rory Bell, previously kicked for Temple and Cincinnati. 14 touchbacks at Cincinnati, has kicked a 55 yard field goal at Temple,

It is just math that if Davis loses 3 of the 5 games you mention Idaho, EW, MtSt, MT, Sac, and win every other game they’ll be 8 and 4 and likely make the playoffs but not with a high seeding. If thats the way it turns out then better hope at least one of the teams Davis beats along the way is ranked to give Davis a quality win. If they get upset along the way then they will need to win 3 of those 5 to be 8-4. Need to be 8-4 with a quality win, however that works out.

In some of the camp releases Simpson was.discussed as still recovering from last season's injury.

More good: wide receivers
Each of the three starters had good games, although Gbatu took a little while before having success. Chaz Davis has had good games each of the recent Cal and Oregon State games, CJ was outstanding, and Dobbins was a major contributor who was playing his first game as a true freshman. He is going to play a bigger role in future

Another true freshman, Mayo, a nose tackle, played.

Add to that ugly low punts that only netted a decent average due to some rolling.

Passes to tight ends, 8 completions,12 attempts, 25 yards total.
Only one pass completed to Larison in six tries, for 11 yards.
Weren’t able to get a passing game going beyond the wide receivers.

My hope for this game was simply that it looked like a football game, and mostly it did.

Davis’ offense seemed less varied than in years past. They don’t have the blocking to run in running situations against Cal and they don’t feature fly sweeps anymore, so most runs are between the tackles, which they couldn’t block. Missing also were the screens they used to run.

Kickers had a bad day, after bringing in kickers to make the position competitive, the worst kicking i can recall.

If the players listed first on the Davis depth chart do indeed start, the three interior offensive line players will all be new.
Left guard will be the Stony Brook transfer Jace Rodriguez who played tackle at Stony Brook.
Center will be Zaire Collier who saw no action last year as a freshman. He may have walked on as he was set to play at a JC, but joined Davis in May of last year. 247 had him rated as a 3 star though.
Right Guard is the transfer from San Diego State. It will be interesting to see how that works out against a tough opponent.

The depth chart released in the Game Notes , listed behind Porter Connors is a name only appearing once before in these discussions.
That was when I posted a year ago:

The roster has a freshman, class of 2023, linebacker, Aaron Shebloski, a walk on, committed in May.
He has a link to a video on his twitter page of him doing 3000 pushups in a day when he was 16. Has a lot of personality.

Pretty impressive for a redshirt freshman walk-on to be high in the depth chart.