Davis predicted winner by computer algorithm. *

UC DAVIS 33.84 - 28.23 eastern Washington

•Sugarin has a "new feature" which predicts winners by various methods. The one that has us the winner compares strength of offense vs defense for each team, called "offense defense".
I think it is worth mentioning as it's an indicator that we have a legitimate chance to win this week.

it's also fun that our style of play still looks like old time Aggie football. Every game from here out we have a chance of winning. Can't predict which ones will fall our way. Makes each week suspenseful.

movielover its not so much emailing as it is having a web presence with content. Something that shows up in search engines. And not the one sided silver lining stuff in the departments page; that's good but also something balanced, other teams get that by default from local media, we don't

I wonder if there is a study that indicates English speaking foreign students don't read English posters. Or perhaps foreign students think that football games are open only to a secret society?
Perhaps if there was a newspaper not behind a paywall that wrote about the games some of the mystery would lessen.
Re clips: since it isn't happening in the press, anything that creates or feeds interest needs to be done in house or by students, does the Aggie cover sports anymore? Maybe they could up their game,

Said many times before but one of our problems in competing at D1 level is we get no more coverage than we did in D2. That's one reason we appear to be small time. I don't even see Davis Enterprise articles when I search google for sports news, I don't think google crawls their site.
Back in the long ago Far Western Conference days, the Chronicle would cover the league coaches conference call. Sac Bee is a lost hope, I think Sac State going D1 and still being small time contributes to that. In the long run, we can't hope the DE survives to cover the team, hopefully there will be further growth in online resources that will provide to a wider audience the stories we currently get from the DE. Subscribing to the DE for three football stories a week is isn't compelling for out of towners.

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the injuries have hurt them but this is still a challenging game for us. They have a veteran qb, top level running backs and are a physical team. Disappointing for them means they've come back from standout to average in the Big Sky. It would be a mild upset for us to beat this team even at home. I'm hoping we get three more wins this year, this game might be one of them.

Looking at their last game, it looks like they fell behind early and went away from their style of play. They averaged five yards a carry but not a large number. They look like they could be trouble. Proven running backs, big play potential. Have to do what Montana State did which was score early.
Santiago got 150 yards against us two years ago.

No idea what to expect this week. They've lost badly a few weeks in a row, we've lost badly last game. They seem to be getting beaten in line play, both offense and defense and are apparently suffering from loss of middle linebacker. Whether we are physically capable of taking advantage of that is an open question.

Thanks Dr. Mike I was getting depressed.

It does seem that we have reverted back to our condition a couple of years prior to Biggs' departure where we had an almost total inability to run the ball. At the time the offensive line coach, who is still with us, said something along the line that we had so many plays where the offensive linemen moved laterally that they lost proficiency at just plan down the field run blocking. To get some run effectiveness Biggs added a fullback and also experimented with the wildcat. But now we seem pretty poor, generalizing from this game. The fly sweep plays seem to be inherently vulnerable to defensive penetration.
I really was expecting that we would be good in the red zone this year because of our coaches, but nothing worked yesterday. I think we need to figure out how to run the ball again.

Trout!

even partial scholarships add up. Can't sustain 30 NLI recruits, that has to eat into following class. We've historically brought in less 15

The polls are ridiculous The voters are not knowledgeable about teams outside their local area or at best the league their local team plays in. The computer rankings are at least unbiased. We should be happy that we move up in them. There are 50 or 60 teams between where we rank and where SD ranks, on the other hand we are adjacent to Weber state.

Anyone know how many scholarships are available?! Did we use too many bringing in 30 plus commits this year?

Tehran was a HS qb, passed for quite a few yards, perhaps a possibility for wildcat or trick plays sometime down the line

Lots oflocal bias in that list, and its just a reflection of how they looked so far this year.
I think people touting weber base it all on the Cal game. Cal is not as good as San Diego State.
We had some moments in the SDSU game but did not put up the yardage Weber did against Cal. But what does that mean? Not much. PSU was even better against OSU and that foretold nothing.
Cal apparently couldn't get pressure on qb. That's worrisome. But they won't surprise us as they did Cal.
Our FCS record of wins over San Diego and Portland State is is much more impressive than their win over sac state. Montana- western doesn't count.

Its funny to me how the Great West conference alumni have outperformed most the FCS powers. How would you like to compete in a conference with southern Utah, both north Dakotas , both south Dakotas cal poly and Davis.

Creighton's responsibilities seem to have grown under Hawkins. He's the special teams coach in addition to tight ends and I assume he still has a big part in recruiting. Good that he was retained.

Tehran would have been very impressive as a triple jump standout weighing 230#

A good year would be to go 5-3 against big sky teams, counting Portland State game. Bonus points if the wins include Sac and Cal Poly. I'd like to see us get a new victim who we haven't beat recently or ever. Like Eastern Washington.