This is a great win for the Aggies. It feels like the program is taking a significant step forward!

Aggies take down The Beach in 4 sets. Atop the Big West at 6-0!! Congrats to Coach Dan Connors, his staff and the players!

GO AGS!!!

Don't know where else to post this but Kavir had 13 total tackles in Pitt's win over FSU. Love to see him ball out!

Well, as I recall that was reviewed and the ruling on the field was upheld.

I'll be anxiously awaiting to see the score on Sunday morning here in Paris. Hoping for a great crowd and a great Aggie victory and NO MORE INJURIES! GO AGS!!

The 2023 loss @ Flagstaff was one of the most disappointing loses I can remember. I still believe that one kept us out of the playoffs in the end.
The 2022 W was fun though! Lets do that again....

I think its going to be higher scoring. One score game.
Our defense is going to give up some points. Forcing another fumble or two would be huge.
I agree with DrMike, keeping their offense off the field is going to be key.

more optimistic than me, based on our injuries. I think we slow things down like vs Poly to keep the defense fresh in the second half

I thought so too. I mentioned that to someone in the department and he was surprised. When I looked early in the week, the west side showed ‘low availability’ in all sections, and most showed only a handful of seats. We’ll see.

Maybe he was focused more on the student turnout.

https://herosports.com/fcs-football-2025-attendance-leaders-bzbz/

Looking good this season!

The longer that schedule stays open, when do players start bailing. Before Spring?

Is that a fact? Do you have any valid info that confirms this or is this just an unfounded rumor?

Cope.

Davis athletics department / office of the president honors contracts and acts with integrity. Maybe Sac should give that a shot....(...having your president talking trash / lying / over-promising on Twitter isn't a good look)

You guys got a couple games going next year....keep it up!
https://fbschedules.com/2026-sacramento-state-football-schedule/

For the record, I'd love to have Sac pay us to play at home, but I understand why its not happening...and its not Davis' fault. Sac has caused themselves so many problems, all self- inflicted. Trying to blame us for anything is pretty lame.

You don't have much to stand on kicking the bear on this board at the moment.

Trinity League receivers have played as freshmen last couple years with Hennessy and Dobbins. Hopefully this trend remains true

Mater Dei High.....4.2 GPA. Impressive! A few Ivy and FBS offers (including Arizona, UNLV, Army/Navy)

What is being “an FCS program that plays mostly FBS opponents”? If that is the case no need for a new stadium as they will always be on the road.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPhkTBJEqKI/?hl=en

6'2 WR with 15 offers, Koen Parnell, has committed to UC Davis! GO AGS!

i haven't seen one since before the conversion to Champion Aggies. At the time, it seems consistent with the message of 125 or so $1000 donors.

Coming off a tough win over UCI on Saturday, Davis is in a first-place tie with Long Beach State.

Next up: UC San Diego (2-2 BW; 4-12 overall) comes to town in Thursday.

Go Ags!

Back to the game. Breaking it down from YouTube, vs. NAU we'll see a lot of 5-down looks with a loaded box and sim pressures on passing downs (a lot like Cal Poly's D from 2024). They're going to play man with some variations behind it, but it looks like they lose the QB and if you're playing man coverage, that can lead to big gainers. Against MSU, the Safety #8 spied the QB in short yardage situations due to their Q Run game; don't be surprised to see him tracking CP at times, especially on passing downs in Man. Well-coached defensive unit.

The Offense is very multiple. They look similar to Weber and Poly speed-wise to me, maybe a notch below that. NAU runs the QB enough to make him viable, but their RBs are not what we saw from Southern Utah or Weber St. in the base run game. Those guys will catch a lot of balls. The OL is solid, TEs are OK. WRs look like bigger guys that run solid routes but don't appear to be that fast. As mentioned, the QB will check it down to the RB frequently and take the underneath throws on some of the deep concepts. Dink and dunk, move the sticks.

Their Special Teams gave up a long punt return vs. MSU.

Aggies 42-45ish
Lumberjacks 31 at best

Happy Homecoming!

Stats are easily skewed, trust what you see on the field. The Offense available to Plough is expanding because the QB is taking care of the football and distributing the touches very well. There's a new weapon emerging each week. CP just needs to be smart with his body and the Offense is going to keep rolling.

I think what you're seeing is a Defensive emphasis on stopping the run. SUU has an elite RB (as he has proven since we saw him), Weber ran the ball 43x, and Wulff at Cal Poly is an old O-Line guy and they tried to run it 37x. Our Rushing YPG allowed is decreasing, as is the Yards Per Carry stat (Washington skewed everything up statistically). When you commit to making teams one dimensional (ex. stop the run), you're going to give some things up, like balls up the seams (Cal Poly) and create some favorable matchups offensively in coverage (Weber State). With our pass rush and DBs, it makes sense to load up against the run and put it on those guys to make plays against the pass.

1000 at $1000 annually is a great concept. If UCD would hire someone wholly committed to soliciting for that sort of giving program, I think it's realistic given the sheer size of the alumni base and our metro areas. You could probably do at least half of it at Homecoming and Parent Weekends with the right person in charge.

Regarding the microphone, perhaps we can make it 1001 at $1000 with that gift specifically earmarked to rectify the mic issues, Call that person The Mic Backer...

another thing that might help is turning up the microphone in these press conferences :lol: . All jokes aside I agree with you completely, hoping the NAU game can get a good crowd!

This is what Plough was eluding to when he gave his introductory press conference...Montana having 1000 supporters donating $1000, sounded like annually. The body bag game is not necessary, but one could be arranged under scrutiny - ie, playing Nevada this season or somebody who is beatable, and still getting paid. The joy of having the funds, and a huge home field to pay you with sellouts - you can go out and schedule 7 or 8 home games a year, and only be subject to away games per your conference schedule.

As we all saw, Idaho State, battle tested, gave Montana the game of their lives - first taste of road adversity for the Griz.
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Two things Davis needs to continue to improve on:
1. Donations and securing additional funds for improvements and general program funding. Sounds like Ignite is tackling this as we expand up to the Mountain West.
2. Keep the upward trend of ticket sales going. Sell Out, Sell Out, Sell Out your home games.

NCAA FCS Statistics

Total Offense... #26 - 414 ypg
Total Defense #100 - 437 ypg
Turnover Margin #34 (t)
Turnovers Lost.. #14 (t) **

3rd down Completion % - #37 (t)
3rd down Completion % - Defense - #121

First down Offense - #83
First down Defense - #81

Red zone Offense - #35 (t)
Sacks Allowed - #109 (t)

Team Passing Efficiency - #14

Completion Percentage
Caden Pinnick #35

Passing Efficiency
Caden Pinnick #13

Yards Per Pass Attempt
Caden Pinnick #17

Receiving TDs
Zach Jones #21
Samuel Gbatu #21

Rushing Yds per Carry
Jordan Fisher #9

[Carter Vargas 8.24 YPC = #1 in FBS, but he doesn't get 10 carries per game, the minimum threshold.]

Rushing Yds per Game
Jordan Fisher #33

Rushing Yards
Jordan Fisher #37

Sacks
Jacob Psyk #13

Solo Tackles
Rex Connors #2

Total Tackles
Rex Connors #8

** = we could easily jump higher in the rankings w another TO-free game

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fCs

Sievers played well. He’s improving each week. 8 is still struggling and gets lost in traffic. Schematically the defense is set up for him to be the tackling machine and that’s not happening. Rough week for 31 also. He’s such a pest when he can chase from the back side but teams are going right at him and having a hard time disengaging.

Caden is co-player with the Montana guy, both well-deserving