I'm sure their coaches are a little bit more informed than their reporters, but that is pretty shockingly bad reporting for a major newspaper. Not listing players who are probably going to be key, calling guys in the wrong position, referencing stats from last season despite that it's irrelevant due to new players (quite a few JC transfers), coaches, and schemes. Just bad journalism.

I hope they do key in on Doss. Have Doss run go routes all day long to pull a corner and safety and then abuse the middle where we can have receivers matched up against slower linebackers.

I'm sure both sides are being homers in their expectations of this game. I don't think they will blow us out and we probably won't put up as many points as I would like.

Here's a UC Davis Scouting Report from the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Link

From the article:
- Whatever depth chart they received doesn't have specific starters for 9 of 11 positions on offense.
- Mentions Doss clearly being our best offensive weapon.
- Says Carriger listed as starting LT and Baljeu FB (which is interesting since in our position preview articles Baljeu has switched to TE).
- Mentions Dale and Spencer at QB (Makes no mention of Maier who is most likely going to be the starter at this point).
- Says Blair is listed as the starting kicker and punter (I highly doubt Whelan isn't the starting punter).
- Coach Long stated that they are developing a game plan based on what our coaches have done in past programs, don't actually know what Hawkins will be throwing at them.
- Mentions our poor run defense from last season (We're going to have a new defense though. Whether it will be any good is another question, but it seems kind of weird to base it on last season when they specifically mention that they don't know what they will see on either side of the ball).
- Mentions Baumgart as our most successful edge rusher (he has switched positions to LB).
- Mentions that we have a veteran secondary but they are small and could struggle against the size of their receivers.

Overall this report got some things right, but there were definitely inaccuracies that seem like they just based things off of last years depth chart. I mean position changes are clearly listed in our roster and have been being posted in the position roundup articles on the athletics site. Also not mentioning Maier at all seems weird. Just not a lot of research before writing I suppose.

How many times did we refuse to run the 2 minute drill at the end of the half and instead just ran it up the gut for a yard to run the clock... even when we had timeouts. There was no killer instinct at all with Gould at the helm. Hawk is fiery as hell, I doubt this team is going to be apathetic.

Some predictions from one of the SDSU fan forums:

31-0 SDSU
38-6 SDSU
46-17 SDSU
34-10 SDSU

Now, I expect to lose but I hope our new offense will perform better than that.

Plough himself in interviews (I'm not going to go back and find them) has said that what's being implemented here at Davis is new. Whether that just means new for us or something unique altogether is another story. I'm positive that with Speckman on the staff we are going to have some aspects of the fly in our offense. It won't be the focus of our offense as most indicators are that we're going to be a pass first team, but on running downs the fly definitely adds another dimension if interspersed with other running plays.

I love the classic UC Davis jerseys, they're historic and sometimes less is more, but I gotta admit that the one displayed in the twitter picture I posted are clean. Put those bad boys on with one of the new chrome gold helmets and we have a killer new look. With how many new variations on uniforms we have, I wouldn't be surprised if we busted out some new away jerseys. I mean, at the very least even if they are the normal whites they should have the updated 1 font UC Davis.

I also hope that it will take SDSU a little bit of time to adjust to what we throw at them both offensively and defensively. They should have very little to no information on what's coming. Hopefully we can catch em off guard.

I would like to see us hang with the Aztecs in this one. If our new air raid offense is as potent as some of the players indicate it will be then I think we could see us put up some points. We will see if the defense can hang with the big boys and I think that will be a huge contributing factor in the outcome of this game. How is SDSU doing health-wise?

By the way, did anyone catch the new uniforms? I already knew about the helmets but I just saw new uniforms on twitter. 2 tone blue jerseys with the new 1 font "UC Davis" and CA patches on the shoulders. Look at Jaylin White's twitter profile pic.

https://twitter.com/JaayChristopher

It's no secret that CP is a talented squad, but yeah you guys need to open up the book to make the triple option work which you guys have done in the past. Workloading Protheroe that heavily is gonna get him hurt.

Well Protheroe is a FB and got 39 carries which is a crazy workload for 1 player. They can't continue that trend or he's gonna end up injured. Their RB, Lewis, only got 7 carries for 19 yards. You're not fooling the defense when you make the triple option 1 dimensional.

Really a quite unimpressive start to the season for Poly. They didn't seem to spread the ball around as much as I remember. Protheroe had just under 40 carries but only managed 140 yards off of that. They only gave Kyle Lewis 7 carries and their QB, Jenkins, didn't do much on the ground. Jenkins also only completed 6 passes on 17 attempts. When you rush as much as Poly does you gotta make those pass attempts count. Got to give some credit to Colgate's defense for shutting them down for 3 quarters, but it makes it a little bit easier when the triple option is actually just handing the ball to the fullback 40 times.

Well CP tried to make a comeback in the 4th but fell short. Poly loses to the mighty mighty Colgate Raiders 20-14.

2nd quarter and Colgate is leading 17-0... did not see that happening.

Last good chance for the team to tune things up before the opener against SDSU. Even without the heat I don't think that there would be too many people going to this event. Without limiting it to STH, there were only around 100 or so people going to the first couple of scrimmages (I wasn't there, but I believe that number was in the enterprise). Hawkins is working on revitalizing the program, but it's a process. I think that there is still a general sense of apathy with a lot of the students and alumni regarding the team. Hopefully some wins can help to alleviate that.

Coach Plough has announced on twitter that we have received another commitment, however I am unable to find who it was that committed.

AP has them receiving votes, but not in the top 25. This will be a tough task for the Aggies for sure, but I'm hoping Hawkins air raid offense can keep it close.
http://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fbs

Where'd you see this? I live on the east coast now so I'm going to have to rely on streams.

I'm not sure where the funds came for this upgrade, but the original issues were almost certainly budgetary. They were cutting corners all over the place to get Aggie Stadium opened and have been slowly fixing things over the years.

Doesn't mean he's 100% not coming to UCD, although I don't think it's going to happen. In this last bunch of recruits, Delveion Jackson committed, then decommitted to explore his option, and then ended up committing again. Clark would have been a huge addition to the roster.

I don't even care if the actual size of the scoreboard is the same, but the fact that we're getting a higher quality and much larger video screen is critical. The old screen had a weird aspect ratio and was incredibly low quality for when it was built.

In my opinion, Blue is making changes that make us look like a legitimate athletics program.