I don’t think this team has a commitment to either the run or the pass, they’re adaptable.
They played a ball control game against Tulsa, with runs and short passes, partly to keep the ball away from the more explosive team and partly due to Tulsa’s nickel defense.
Then we did the opposite against USD, rushing only 20 times. The Aggies can be balanced but if a defense is willing to give up one or the other they will take it.

In the end against USD we averaged 6.6 yards per rush, with two rushing TDs,.

San Diego foiled us in our attempt to establish the run by giving up all those 20 yard plus touchdowns. Drat.

Hopefully we’ll see some of the 2021 HS recruits in the Dixie game. There is almost invariably a true freshman who makes an impact.

He was on the travel roster against SD, not against Tulsa. Hopefully he’s getting over an injury. He missed last few games in the spring. I’ve been hoping to see him out there.
It is disappointing we don’t have any reporting on the team. When a guy like Devon was the star of the 2019 game with San Diego, you would think the game announcers might say something about his status. The game notes educated us in his nickname but not on his availability.

I just watched a little of the Tulsa game again, so more than a week. I hope it’s as long as the big sky site, which was the season

As I understand it, from the Idaho blog guys, who actually had someone attend the big sky media days, the conference had some money to upgrade the capabilities of schools who may otherwise lack the resources. One example was Idaho State. Those guys didn’t think UCD was in the needy category,. But the conference was going to do an assessment of where the teams were so as to get teams to a baseline.

Replays of the full games are available on demand. I don’t know yet for how long as I’m a new user too. The replay includes the commercial breaks but thankfully not the commercials themselves. Video and audio quality are unchanged from Pluto. Better than what we saw from the WCC site that carried USD game

I’m sure that explains most of it. I guess they’ll assume that Idaho is the same team we played in the spring with the guys they lost to Covid protocols back and also prepare for the running QB to make appearance.
That makes them sound pretty good.

Idaho is a mystery because they will have played no peer games before playing us.
Nothing can be learned from their game with Simon Frazier. Simon Fraser was DIII last time I paid any attention to them, playing in a conference so small they played home and away games with the other teams. Their coaching staff were mostly used to 12 man rules.
Idaho got blown out against Indiana and will likely suffer the same fate against Oregon State. Its hard to judge how they’ll look against a team they match up with. We’ll be their first FCS game at homecoming. They have their version of TT, Zach Borisch, who ran for 205 yards against Eastern Washington in the spring but hardly played against Indiana.

I saw them lose to San Diego State in the seventies when they were 13th ranked and San Diego State was unranked but 8-1-1, having lost to Fullerton and tied USC. SDSU beat them soundly, a fine memory. I like to see them do well just because I saw the team in person once.
The Civilized Tribes reference was related the Seminole being one of the five “civilized tribes” The city of Tulsa is largely within the Muskogee reservation. The Muskogee were also one of the five “civilized tribes”

in the instance you linked to it actual human votes, which makes it political.

Maybe. We have a 170 lb starter, how sturdy is he going to be? Don’t know if Hastings or Faulk is better.
Might end this season with TT at QB.
He needs some game action at QB to show what he can and can’t do. I’d love to see him play some more regular QB series, show that he can complete some passes.

The computer ranking don’t mean much at this point because they took last season as their starting point and last season was so disrupted. For example where should we be ranked compared to Sac which didn’t play. Also some conferences played no out of conference teams so how do you rank teams with no common opponents? In a few weeks they’ll make more sense.because they’ll just use this years results.

But they’re packing the house for Dixie State.
Most seasons we play enough ranked teams in league. I wish South Dakota State wasn’t on the schedule next year.
I do feel nostalgic enough to wish we would play some of the old “college” powerhouses like Delaware. But not in the midst of a string like Cal, Weber, and the two Montanas

This years schedule includes three games against teams that are not in the top 200; according to Sagarin’s rankings. San Diego, Dixie, and SLO.

The advantage of running run “ trick” plays with personnel not giving it away suggests that we should run regular plays with TT in at a regular position sometimes. He could be in there as a slot back.
Imagine TT getting the ball on some screen plays with a few blockers or in Fly sweeps.
Then without changing personnel have him take a snap at qb, with Rodrigues as a wideout. In the spring they had HR and TT together in the backfield, and either could get the snap. We could run some “special” plays with no huddle, so they don’t have time to substitute. Not to mention TT might be able to run most of our offense when he does take a snap so they don’t know what the play is until it develops.

Not a good season so far for the Civilized Tribes.

The real mystery team is Idaho. Two games so lopsided you can’t judge.
They play Oregon State next, we’ll be their first FCS game.

Perhaps we’ll be complaining about our schedule next year if we’re 0-2 after Cal and South Dakota State.
Cal Poly was likely a winnable game for them, as Cal Poly is still a work in progress. Can’t blame the schedule for losing to an unranked FCS team, when you're a perennial playoff contender. If they were 1-1 they wouldn’t be complaining about the schedule.

I think his best comment was on the two point conversions that somebody must have seen something.
When KDVS broadcast the games they had better commentators. Doug Kelly knows something about the Kansas City Chiefs on the 20th century. That’s got him this far, and he’s comfortable with that.