Unbelievable. For the first two games the box score on the Davis site doesn't list Eli Simonson as a starter in the game. it lists his number 70, but with the name of a defensive lineman Luke Roncevitch. This is a direct result of Hawkins not supplying a depth chart. Whoever is doing the stats copied game 1 starters and looked only for new numbers.
The same participants are listed on the Oregon State official site.

i watched about half of the Weber UNI game. Weber is physical, they are going to be a challenge.
Eastern Washington game speaks for itself, they are going to be tough to beat also.
It will be interesting to see if Idaho gets blown out by Cal.

Anyone would expect a loss, but sometimes games like this have an appearance of a contest. For example Furman vs South Carolina was competitive for awhile and Furman was a huge underdog. Eastern Washington was impressive in their game against Fresno and they were a huge underdog. Time will tell how good Oregon State is.

He’s an Oregon State alum if I recall correctly.

Stanford was #11 in 2014
https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2014/8/30/No_11_Stanford_explosive_in_win_over_UC_Davis.aspx
Boise was #5 in 2009
https://www.espn.com/college-football/game/_/gameId/292760068

Most Californians are from someplace else, and they have their attachments to their former home. People who move here from Michigan remain Michigan fans, etc. The big football college teams here have a small percentage of the college alumni, due both to number of non football schools and the number of foreign or out of state graduates. Plus we have a lot of people here who don’t relate to football. Berkeley and Stanford aren’t going to draw non college workers like might happen in with fans in some regions, where the team represents the community more. This is partly due to the prevalence of professional sports in California taking over the fans with no attachment to the schools.

Not saying he wont run over them; he just won’t do it because they are small. I think the 247 preview was lazy, just assuming an FCS team is small, They are bigger than San Jose State.

Just read this preview https://247sports.com/college/oregon-state/longformarticle/oregon-state-beavers-matchup-preview-uc-davis-offense-215278921/#2229147

Which had this conclusion:
Expect a huge game from Damien Martinez. While UC Davis is a very talented team for the FCS level, their front seven will have a difficult time stopping Oregon State's backs. The smallest of the three Oregon State RB's listed on the depth chart is 222 pounds, while the Aggies are simply not as big or physically built to slow down the size and speed of the OSU backs. Look for Martinez, Deshaun Fenwick, and Isaiah Newell to feast behind what should be a dominant performance from the Beaver O-Line.
Martinez and their o-line may have a huge game but not because Davis is “simply not as big”. Davis starting front three are 6’2 347, 6’5 251, 6’6 251, linebackers are 6’2 240: 6’2, 237, 6’2 237. Most the DBs are good size.

Which four teams are left behind after the dissolution of the Pac12? Which four teams had the lowest attendance? There is a correspondence. Attendance probably equates roughly to interest in watching on TV also. The teams without a fan base were left behind.

The top teams will make a lot of money, but the overall audience for college football will decline. Without conference affiliations, there will be little that broadens the interest in the postseason games beyond fans of the schools involved. This may take a few years, but the narrower appeal will eventually lead to less money for all concerned.

I don’t see an argument why Weber is ahead of Idaho, Sac and Davis. They just had a solid but not overwhelming win over a D2 team. If they hadn’t lost so many transfers and their head coach, I could understand but they are not a known quantity They actually moved up after gaining only 306 yards against a D2 team. I’ll be surprised if they upset Northern Iowa.

I just noticed they ran Larison from the wildcat at the 2, with Chubba as the lead blocker. Chubba lined up as a tight end on the right, pulled and crossed over to the left side and led the ball carrier,

It is not gamesmanship. They don’t make an effort to produce it. This wouldn’t matter if there was any press that covered the team, even the Davis Enterprise largely basis their coverage on athletic department press releases, so not producing content really cuts back on information about the team. They don’t grasp that they have to self promote, and that needs to be broader than just a few name players.
Evan Bearden started not Franz Pohlman
Eli Simonson started not Luka Roncevich
Nick Eaton #53 started not of Jacob Horne #38.

Looks like no game notes this week again. Even if they don’t publish them the should give a depth chart to the statistician who does the player participation stats, because they misidentified starters in the first game. If uncorrected, and i expect it to be uncorrected this flows into all the players stats. They owe it to the players to list who plays correctly. We have a player from Nebraska who transferred here to play, he earns a start in his first game and then the game box score doesn’t list his name. I expect his friends and family in Nebraska looked for it.

It wasn’t right that we were behind them to begin with. They lost to Texas A&M Commerce last year,

Our worst was likely Fresno State 51-0 in 2009. Biggs said something along the line of in ither games he always felt they could do something effective, but they had no answers in that game,

The Oregon State coach at their press conference talked about the effect of the rule change leading to fewer plays. They scored 6 touchdowns and only had 9 possessions. Said they only had 63 plays. OSUs game still took twenty minutes more than the Davis TAMUC game, which struck me as a surprisingly short duration..

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Both Eli and Izaiah are 295 on our roster, for what that’s worth. I noticed Mike Cody said Jordan Ford weighs 305 lbs, whereas the Roster has him at 273.

Did Hawkins have a press conference at 1PM today? Team site on Twitter/x said they were going to have one on Facebook, but i don’t see it there.

In addition to sophomore Eli Simonson at left tackle I noticed that a true Freshman Izaiah Souriolle, was in at LT on Perez’s long touchdown run on the left side. So we have two newcomers traveling and playing in their first game as Aggies on the offensive line. Eli, and Izaiah could be biblical on the line.

The guy that started, Eli Simonson, isn’t even listed in the box score. One of many errors in the statistics attributable to not publishing a depth chart.