Pinnick was described as sick, not injured; the bye week doesn’t help that.

Plough said Harper had cramps.
In the second half they ran Harper too much, some appeared to be planned runs.

Why do broadcaster think that Jr. is part of a last name? It doesn’t need to be called out on play by play. Same thing with other teams that put Jr on the back of uniforms. We had a couple of juniors in the game one on each team and i think junior was said fifty times,

Davis surprisingly has a good run defense, after seeming poor earlier this year.. Before this game Davis was second in the conference in least yards yielded per carry.

any clue as to what happened to Maquis Bell?

Exactly, therefor run

The worst 2 minutes offense.. i figured that would be Harper’s strength.

Jim Speck 1973 -1976 was a true freshman in era before redshirt freshmen at Davis is in the hall of fame. He is in the hall of fame. As a freshman Speck played in Davis’32-31 Thanksgiving weekend loss to Boise State and passed for over 300 yards in that game. That was an era when Davis was outsized by major D2 scholarship programs like Boise. Boise narrowly lost in the final seconds in the D2 Semifinals. Davis beat Nevada and Santa Clara that year ending 7-3 record.

He also said that the opportunity to earn a degree rather than a certificate was a factor. With the new NCAA rules I suspect some schools are offering grad students just a semester scholarship. Some schools have no program offering a masters degree in a year.

Samuel Akem thinks Davis’ defense is unsound, pass defense 110th Thinks it will be a shootout with whoever has the ball last winning

Compared to its fellow conference members Montana consistently has a easy out of conference schedule.
How many FBS teams has Montana played in the most recent five seasons? One, five years ago.
How many D2 teams has Montana played in the most recent five seasons? Two
How.many FBS teams has Davis played in the last five seasons? Five
How many D2 teams has Davis played in last five years? Zero

Sac is a 3.5 point underdog according to Sports Bet Montana.
Montana hasn’t impressed with their 219th ranked schedule according to Sagarin.
Sagarin’s models give Montana a 61% chance of winning or less, they have varying formulas but all project a narrow favorite. The home field advantage counts for more in Sagarin this year.

. Covering kicks is the more likely role not least because there are 11 in the coverage team., but we have a safety, Riddick, returning kicks, having someone else.do that takes.a load.off a first string defensive player.Perez is apparently out so who is our third RB?

Plough mentions Mason Walsh as a new player on special teams. A freshman running back, likely here as a walkon. It will be interesting to see if he returns kicks.

Statistically Northern Colorado is not good against rushing giving up 5.7 yards per attempt. Conversely we are surprisingly not great at rushing, with a 4.0 average. Davis has to be better than that with the running backs we have. Without the 8 sacks for 54 yards the it would be about 4.8.

He was a late addition, not announced his name just appeared on the roster in fall camp. A fairly big guy for a corner, Liberty had him at safety. Been a god send, as i think there are or were more guys at corner not available. I say this because the #2 guys on last weeks depth chart didn’t play, and Plough says in Aggiepride podcast he has so many guys out that they won’t take 58 guys to Greeley.

AI from a google search
The NCAA rounds up any fractional portion of a contest when calculating the 30% rule for a medical redshirt. For example, if an athlete competed in 30% of a 31-game season, that would be 9.3 games, which rounds up to 10 games. Therefore, the athlete would not be eligible for a medical redshirt if they participated in more than 10 games.

The relevant NCAA form form 4 uses this same example but its in PDF and word documents i cant download on my old IPAD.

According to the rule Medical respdshirts have to play in a maximum of 30% or less of contests rounded up to an integer.
Lets assume they have two playoff games
12 regular season games counting mercer:
14 *.30 = 4.2 rounding up = 5 games.

Last year Idaho still had a respectable offense with Wagner or Josifek. This year they look hopeless without Wood..

When Davis plays Sac I want Sac to be out of contention and some of their players thinking about their next gig.