Davis and the middle of the Mountain West in Sagarin ranking
105 UC Davis 61.71
106 New Mexico 61.57
107 San Jose State 61.26
108 Wyoming 61.21

On the Sac Town Sports show, Plough reiterates "five All-Americans out" but says all to season ending injuries. His list of All-Americans was previously Rex Connors, Porter Connors, Williams, Nava, and D3 All-American, Richardson. As far as I know that's the first statement that Richardson and Nava.are out for the season.

Sometimes.Davis picks.up a guy.after all the recruiting attention is over, and they make an impact. He caught a lot.of.passes at Sac CC.

Sac State has three wins, with the narrowest margin 21 points. They have either won in a blowout or lost.
Sac has a pretty good pass defense. Northern Colorado is giving up five yards a carry, Sac just rushed for 400 yards., I don't like N. Colorado's chances.

Scott Nixon started for Davis against NAU.
He is a 6’2” receiver. He transferred from Sac City College
I think I heard on the broadcast that he is the best WR blocker.
In high school he was the Sac Bee Player of the Year for the 2022 season
https://www.sacbee.com/news/article270454282.html

“The Delta League MVP and a two-time Bee All-Metro player, Nixon accumulated 2,138 total yards and 27 touchdowns in 12 games. He had 1,280 yards receiving and 17 touchdowns, and he stepped into the running back role as if he was born for it, playing the position for the first time out of injury necessity. Nixon rushed for 858 yards and 10 touchdowns during an 8-4 season”

Montana State is clearly the best Big Sky team based on conference games, which is the only way their schedules compare. Not even a close call.
You can’t have it both ways, give a lot of credit for playing a tough schedule and then ignore the losses. How tough would Montana States schedule be without the teams they lost to? Tarleton State is undefeated and has a better win, Army is better than Southern Illinois. Gets back to the question if what the goal of ranking is. Is it to judge how teams have performed already or guess who would win a contest? I lean towards who deserves it based on their record.

Casey Merrill is a more similar player.among guys who played significantly in NFL.
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In conference only stats:
Davis is second best in the conference in rushing defense per carry, but tied for 7th in offense yards per carry.
Davis is second in scoring per game, third in scoring defense,
Second in yards per play gained , tied for second best in yards per play allowed.
First in passing efficiency but only 7th in defensive passing efficiency.
On offense passing is a strength, rushing just average.
On defense rush defense is a strength, pass defense just average.

Surprise! Davis is the second best team as far as points allowed per game in Big Sky Conference play, mostly without the Connors brothers and others. Giving up 21 points per game behind only MSU, at 9.
Davis is tied for 2nd with that team across the causeway giving up 5.1 yards per play, which ain’t good but is better than everyone else except Montana State’s 4.3.

Big difference in yardage for Pinnick in conference games, about 100 yards per game more than Lamson.

[ Not minimizing the loss of those guys, but OL, RB, TE, and Safety were the deepest positions on the team. Fortunately Sievers is filling in well for Porter Connors.

Not so impacted that they need to convert players. There are young players who were highly regarded recruits at all the lost player positions that still aren’t playing, but would be better than anyone switching sides.

Defense Starters lost: Safety Rex Connors, linebacker Porter Connors, cornerback Ty Richardson
#2 man on depth chart lost: Edge linebacker Garretson.
Offense starters lost TE Williams and OL Nava,
OL Rodriguez is somewhat limited but plays.
Depth chart player lost RB Perez
Can anyone add to this list? Its not 11 guys but the other 3 are unknown to me.

Penn State just fired their coach

When a contract has a $48 million buyout, do you think he cares? A perverse incentive.

Did Coach Plough land Pinnick?

Plough wasn’t around when Pinnick was first offered but was before he committed.

Corvallis is a nice college town.

Harvard and Mercer look likely to make the playoffs. Which would you rather play?

Idaho may pick up their fifth loss before playing us. They’ll be underdogs at Flagstaff in two weeks, and may need Wood back to beat Eastern Wa.. The broadcast said they had eight players unavailable for yesterdays game. They don’t have the depth they had last year, those guys are in New Mexico.

Sac & Weber played in a steady 42 degree rain. Sac is deep in quality running backs, tough to beat them in bad conditions.

What injuries do we have among depth chart players aside from Williams, the Connors twins, Richardson?
Nava left last weeks game with some injury, but he is listed on the depth chart which cane out late this week, is he out?
Perez hasn’t played for several games.
Is that it?

Nava is still listed number one in depth chart at right guard
Rodriguez, who finished the game against Cal Poly, is listed behind Main at LG. If I’m not mistaken Main played right guard at end of CP game in place of Nava, and according to game notes started in place of Rodriguez at left guard. Maybe they were trying to rest Rodriguez
If Nava is healthy then it seems they have everyone on the o line available. They still haven’t started a game with all the offensive lineman in the positions they started at last year, and probably won’t.