it looks like these guys don’t give any extra credit to wins over FBS teams. Montana has most impressive win by far.
How many more votes did we get under our alias, Cal-Davis?

I think this game will give us an indication of our offensive philosophy. Tulsa uses a 3-3-5 as their base defense and that might have contributed to how persistent we were in attempting to run the ball. Against a peer opponent, not playing an umbrella defense, and now with more confidence in the QB, what mix of plays will we see? I guess more fifty fifty.
A 2020 freshman Michael Ambagtsheer, who saw some action at Tulsa and had a assisted tackle for us has a brother who plays at San Diego.

It was weird but also classy in a way that the TV broadcast didn’t talk about the suspensions much.

In 2005 to 2006 era UCD and Cal Poly were more than equal to Montana and Montana State. Then we both got lost in the wilderness.

Right. We had Hansen miss first half due to targeting call against Eastern. We were without two slot backs. one who was our leading receiver this spring.
Tulsa wasn’t hit by a surprise because it was their administration that suspended them. So they had time to prepare to play a half or a full game without those guys.
However it did help equalize the depth, and I’m sure cost them some cohesion.

I had to look it up. 1986 UOP Tigers won over Minnesota the week before in front of 50 000 people 24-20.
Lost to the Aggies in front of 15,000 fans 45-41

The 2010 San Jose State game maybe. I think they shouldn’t have been favored in 2018.
UOP, the first win. I think that UOP was coming off a road win against Minnesota.

The Tulsa Oklahoma State game will be an interesting comparison for ranking UCD vs Missouri State.

They aren’t ranking by how teams played this year, it seems like yesterday we played Weber and lost

One has to think they knew who they were going to suspend and compensated for it, but I heard somewhere they were playing with three week side linebackers to start the game. That and new corners this year.
Even so, probably the best defense we will play. Not the best offense we’ll play this year but the most physical. I don’t think anyone has better running backs.

We’ve got a good schedule this year. All winnable games but some opportunities to get the always loses to ranked teams monkey off our back.
We’ve already defeated the toughest team on our schedule, and if we play consistently we should end with a good record.

What is the criteria? Are thes polls supposed to reflect accomplishments to date, or a forward looking projection of where these teams will finish, or something else?
If it’s accomplishments to date we should be right after Montana. If it’s projecting how teams will do when or if they play, most won’t pick us ahead of Weber or Eastern because we lost to them a couple of months ago. So best we could reasonably expect is to be above Montana State.
Polls are relatively meaningless after one game

I think whoever hits a cyclist is likely to be a kid driving too fast, someone distracted by their phone, someone with a vehicle with bad suspension or tires or someone unaware that they may encounter a cyclist or someone under the influence. Lack of driver training also contributes. I think in rural areas you may have more drug abuse, worse maintained vehicles, people unused to encountering cyclist and not informed about the idea of sharing the road. I don’t think it’s a conservative or liberal issue. I admire your guts for biking on the two lane roads.

[ UCD won the time of possession battle against Tulsa by almost 50%. To be fair to Gould and others who like the stat, it did affect the outcome of that game, contributing to their players wilting at the end with the cramps and us able to string together the four first downs to run out the clock.

Responding to the general discussion here about bikes holding up traffic and bike lanes, not the specifics of Knapps death.
Drivers have to realize that a bike is entitled to use the road. They can use the bike lane if they want to.
I live near a street that has a four lane road, and a two foot wide bike lane before it slopes into the gutter. I bike with my dog, we go about 13-15 mph on this stretch of three blocks. My choice is try to stay in the bike lane and have drivers whiz by going 25 miles faster than us, or occupy one of the two lanes, which is the safer alternative even if it might irritate someone. Being barely out of the bike lane encourages drivers who think their depth perception is perfect to not change lanes.
Drivers intolerance of slow moving vehicles has gotten dramatically worse over the years. When I learned to drive there were lots of slow vehicles, and if you got behind them you just dealt with it without having a mental breakdown. A speed limit is not a guarantee.

I notice that Justin Kraft didn’t play, according to the stats. He’s a slot receiver same as Crawford and Hutton. Hutton certainly played very well, but I’m guessing Kraft might have been held out due to injury, because if he was healthy he likely would have seen some action. I think Hutton had a great game, the guy is tough.

Damn! They offered me a half scholarship when UC wouldn’t let me in.

I’m not saying it’s not a stroke of good fortune, it obviously is. Particularly the USC check.
Just saying a good portion of it makes up for lost revenue from missing our FCS game last year. We missed out on a game with San Jose, which would have had minimal expense.
I don’t think it’s a windfall which can be spent on some project. Remember we missed out in all the attendance revenue from the fall games as well.

I can still hear the Applebee’s song in my head

I was wondering why it was called Dixie and the only reason given was local preference. I thought maybe it was named for a teacher or something. Hard to believe a county didn’t have a public high school until the twentieth century.