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.

You are correct, that’s what they did. Their coach in his postgame interview references plays like this, so there are probably others.
I didn't see that at game time, or the first time in replay, you have a good eye.

Did Gale catch the pass? Ended up near the two yard line?

He ran with determination. You have to watch in the fourth quarter when he was in, Showed enough speed to completely reverse the direction of a play and get around the opposite edge.

If Tompkins could throw like Larison he’d still be a QB. I thought Tompkins had a good game aside from the dropped pass. Interesting that after the interception in front of Tompkins near the end of the first half, that Perez caught up to the defensive back and saved the touchdown.

Too much heat over the last few weeks in Texas probably got in the way of their conditioning, by limiting exertion. Aside from the ability to sweat, their is not much a body can do to adapt to heat, and all athletes can sweat buckets,

We had some head scratching interceptions for sure.
The interception near the end of the first half was a good play on their part but dumb to even run a play with a route so conducive to a pick six when just seconds remain. Perez made a shoe string tackle or that would have been 6.

Eli Simonson and Lamont Shamburger.

Eli is a transfer from Nebraska, played left tackle.
Lamont is a transfer from Benedictine, a DB, probably a corner.
Both started and played most of the game.

No one else is encouraged by two sophomore transfers starting their first game at Davis? These guys really flew under the radar, and are playing in front of some veterans. I think that portends big things..

They have a “feels like” feature of forecasts which factor in wind and humidity, last night in commerce it felt like the actual temperature.
Another difference in heat between Davis and Texas is that Davis cools down more at night, and its cooler in the morning. A football team in Davis can schedule around the heat. If they want to practice in the heat they can and if they don’t they can mitigate it.

An Aggies was never down on the field with a cramp; same thing happened two years ago in Tulsa. The team is very well conditioned.

Transfers who played significant minutes:
Eli Simonson from Nebraska started, at left tackle played most the game. (Box score has the wrong #70)
Lamont Shamburger, from D3 Benedictine College, played early and most the game.
Semaj Verner, from Boise last year, but didn't play last year started and played a lot
A J Crump transfer from San Jose who didn’t play last year played a substantial amount.
Evan Tattersall from Cal hardly played last year due to injury but started.

Those guys add to an already deep team,

One side effect of not publishing a depth chart is that the people keeping stats don’t have the players numbers sorted by offense and defense in a shorter list, so they get the players mixed up.

The box score on the Davis web site has only a passing resemblance to the game.
They got the identities of the players that share numbers confused.
This is the case for 5 of the 22 “starters”.