NAU 13 Illinois State 6 at the half

SUU 10 Poly 7 at the half

Montana 39 ISU 31 Final

UND 48 UNC 38 Final

MSU 30 PSU 22 Final

Bob Dunning picks the Ags by 6:

"AGGIES over EASTERN WASHINGTON … the Big Sky has become known far and wide as a high-scoring, take-no-prisoners, defense-be-damned conference where the combined scores of the combatants may well exceed 100 points. This game will be no exception. Two exceptionally talented teams on a collision course in what well may be the Big Sky’s Game of the Year. Take the Ags by 6."

http://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/bobs-picks-give-love-the-heisman-trophy-now/

My wife and I are going to miss this one and the Poly game. We're on a road trip in the southwest and Colorado. I'll be watching tomorrow on Big Sky TV. You might hear me cheering for the Ags all the way from Santa Fe!

Moneke is going to draw a crowd this year in every game he plays. He has gotten a lot of attention and accolades in the past year and teams will be focusing heavily on him. He'll need some of his teammates to really step up and show they can hurt you if you decide to double and triple team Moneke. We'll need that to happen to take some of the pressure of Chima.

It's going to be interesting to see how this team comes together. You would think that after losing 4 starters to graduation this would be a rebuilding year. I'm hoping we are reloading though. I feel pretty good about the new recruits he has brought in and hope they will be able to help us pick up where we left off last year.

No doubt it's a bigger stage and I hope he has success there. If verbalrecruits.com is correct, he only had 3 offers: Davis, Xavier and Virginia. Those are 3 good offers but, for some reason...size??..he has not generated a lot of offers. That makes me wonder how he may fare with the kind of basketball talent the ACC has. Time will tell...

It will be interesting to see how he does at Virginia. He had a chance to be a big fish in the pond as an Aggie. Wish we had him but so it goes...

I watched a little bit of the Sac at EWU game also. Sac's QB, a transfer from UNLV, is an impressive athlete who is a dual threat and he can create something out of nothing. He had a lot to do with the number of rushing yards EWU gave up.

A couple more suggestions that would help pump the atmosphere:

1) The Aggie Pack needs someone on a mic to coordinate them and help make them a dominate presence and deafeningly loud. I didn't see that happening very much last night.

2) The big screen is awesome and the videos of the players dancing and telling "bad jokes" had the fans in stitches. However, the fan cam that they put up at times needs to be used over on the Aggie Pack also. The students would eat that up and make a lot of noise. Seems like they haven't quite worked out the kinks of using the fan cam yet.

The students running onto the field was really impressive and the fans loved it. Why not make that an Aggie football tradition. Let the Aggie Pack run onto the field before every game. The players loved the mob scene outside the tunnel and Maier made specific mention of how the big crowd motivated the team.

If anyone has some connections with the Athletic Department, how about suggesting this to them? I think it would be a great tradition along with the kids stampede that just makes everyone smile.

That's true. I know when moved our season tickets to section 120 this year there were quite a few seats already taken which I assumed were season ticket holders...more than what showed up last night.

Post-game interviews with Hawkins, Maier, Preece, Culberson and Doss:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/UCDavisFootball/posts/

UND limped into Aggie Stadium decimated with injuries and I think we need to keep that in mind when we look at the final score. Nevertheless, I thought the Aggie offense was really firing on all cylinders. Maier's quick release and accuracy was impressive and our receivers running were nice routes and they catch balls in traffic. I thought our RB's churned up some tough yards too and our O line did a good job protecting Maier. So the execution on offense was excellent overall.

You've got to love the open playbook on offense too. It's quick, creative and bold. What a breath of fresh air that is after what we've seen in the recent past!

We continue to give up the big play on the ground and we are vulnerable to getting burned on the deep passing routes. The D bent a whole lot but didn't break. We caught a break when they got that big pass called back on a hold and we got away with a face mask on a sack that forced a 3 and out.

We had a really nice pick by Culberson and another DB had very athletic leap to break up a potential TD pass at the goal line. We also dropped a pick six and another potential pick. So our DB's were getting themselves in position to make some plays on numerous occasions.

Overall, I think the D is a work in progress. Parenteau was in street clothes so there must still be some concerns about his concussion at Weber. The D needs to stay healthy and just keep getting a little better each week. They'll be severely tested next week against EWU.

It was a good win with a lot of positives especially after coming off the loss at Weber State.

The west stands had a lot of empty seats. We sit in section 120 and I think it was 40-45% full at best. So it seems to me that a lot of season ticket holders were missing.

I don't understand that. UND is scheduled become a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference in 2020 so I guess they will be an independent until then. So how would a loss to them count as a conference loss...makes no sense...

The two teams combined for 1102 yards of offense: 651 for the Ags and 451 for the Fighting Hawks. We need to shore up the D because, if we don't, we're going to have to score 45-62 points to keep pace with a team like EWU.

This was the most fun my wife and I have had at Aggie Stadium in a long time. The announced crowd was 9500. The new UCD students ran onto the field before the start of the game and, I swear, they were coming out of the tunnel for 5 minutes...must have been several thousand!

Now if we can only get them to come back. I think we should have an Aggie Pack stampede every game...let the students lead the team onto the field.

Yes, Idaho joins next year...dropping down from FBS. So with ND leaving that will still leave us with an unwieldly 13 teams.