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I’m not sure how to feel about this one. They haven’t played anyone where the outcome wasn’t almost preordained.
If their team from 2017 had played San Jose States 2017 team they would have been 10 point favorites. So either we are in for some trouble or their football talent has fallen off rapidly. I think it will be a competitive game unless we are clicking on both offense and defense. I think our upside is huge but we haven’t put it all together yet.

No governor?

This is a bell weather game for them.
They have some challenges, new freshmen offensive linemen, unsettled QB position, lost most of their receivers to graduation, gave up the most sacks in FBS last year.
Still this will reveal a lot about our team.
San Jose didn’t seem prepared to play us, they got better as the game wore on. Would we beat them again if we played a new game? Maybe Idaho has San Jose level talent but better coaching
San Diego maybe not as good as last two years. They should have done better against Harvard.
Can we replicate the defensive effort against Stanford in a more routine game?
Hopefully we can put the first half offense against San Jose together with the defensive effort against Stanford.

Any kid who is interested in education would be not go to UNLV over UCD.
SDSU is a decent school, I went there for a semester, but not much of a campus. There should be factors that outweigh the FBS classification if the kid is interested in education at all, and also a good student. After all, the education is what the school is trading in exchange for services.

Too soon to tell.

Remember when the Aggie had weekly game coverage ?

Davis’s own web site needs to pick up the slack, not just or press releases about rank in polls and promo stuff.
With no local newspaper coverage we need to have some web content. Hire a couple of student interns with journalism interests and post two stories a week.

The upper limit for this team is pretty high, we don’t know we may be a better team than anyone we play, or not.
We need four quality wide receivers which is a bit of a question mark, as we don’t know why some guys didn’t play against Stanford. Still expect Thomas to make a big improvement to our running game.
Defense could continue to improve. We’re more mobile, have a pass rush, better tackling, good depth, we could be very good. Our JC transfers from last year like Moe and Cloud got some experience and are improved, we got an infusion of talent from our frosh and red shirt frosh, we’ve moved players from safety to lb and from lb to de, so we’re more mobile; we’re dropping DL guys into coverage and blitzing DBs. Net result is we get stops where last year not so much.
Last year I thought we were better than Weber until we played them and our defense gave up a score on virtually every early possession. If we are the kind of team that will do anything in the playoffs beat either Eastern Washington or Montana on the road. I’ll be disappointed if we go 2-2 over the last four unless we upset one of those teams

Montgomery was in a photo showing the back of his helmet on the sidelines at San Diego game Davis Enterprise article. Whether he is not playing due to physical ailment or due to coaches decision has not been commented on.

Moore left team after last season. Montgomery isn’t playing although suited up. But anyway I think Harrell was very key to the explosive success we had in game 1 and 2

Nice analysis on us but only focused on Doss, Maier and Anesi. Obviously how we finish is dependent on other guys. If we ‘re going to be better against the run on defense we need to improve systemically, not just Anesi getting Bua’s tackles. I think Anesi had one tackle against Stanford; Also, in our two wins Doss wasn’t the yardage leader in receptions if I recall correctly. It’s our overall depth of receivers that makes our offense click.

I think the coaches poll reflects the low regard that we were held in the Big Sky preseason coaches poll. If we win games against the top teams in the conference our ranking will jump this year and going forward. We’ve got something to prove in that we’ve never beat Montana or Eastern Washington.

historically our inside linebackers usually make more than their share of tackles.

A difference in this game as lack of receptions by WRs not named Doss, Harrel didn’t play.
Corners safeties and outside linebackers made most the tackles. Too bad Stanford doesn’t have the post game interview like San Jose State

Thats a surprising margin, too bad.

N. Arizona 8.
Missouri State 40
A mild upset by a surprising margin

We have seen what the offense can do against FCS teams in earlier games including last year. Change on offense are mostly limited to a few offensive linemen. Those new OL guys haven’t embarrassed themselves.
The big question was the defense. So far this year it seems they can get critical stops and turnovers.
It looks like we have the players we need to be a very good team. Lots of room for improvement everywhere but the pieces all seem to be there.

Moore not on this year’s roster. Montgomery suited up against San Diego, picture was in Enterprise. His absence from games is mysterious unless he is redshirting Freshmen Kraft and Costello and a few others played. I suspect Maier missed having Harrell out there.

Haven’t seen final stats but Harrell didn’t play apparently, and neither did Logan Montgomery. We had some dropped passes by some of our other receivers. It is curious about Montgomery.