Some of those teams are really weak this year. Lehigh may be the weakest team we’ve played in recent years, and both Montana schools will be coming off bad years, and Sac, Poly, Portland St,. and Southrn Utah are having horrible years.

Barring key injury, It looks like two games in which we’ll be heavy underdogs, Cal and NDSU, two where it will be near even,Weber and ND, and then we’ll be favored over the rest. Not to hard to see us with eight wins.

I heard the announcers claim UCD representatives in interviews claimed Stanford experience would prepare the team for the noise.
Plough on the otherhand specifically talked about how the noise had messed up his teams game plan when he was OC at NAU. I’m sure that voice was heard by Hawkins
So it was probably just some players saying they had experience in adverse environments taken out of context.

I watched most the game again and the homerism didn’t seem so bad. It was however frustrating because the story was all from the Montana perspective in the sense of not giving names of Aggies who made plays. Take Gillian’s catch near out of bounds around the 10 for example, give the guys name.

They wanted to credit us with being good right up until the part of the game in which we were. They wanted the big upset script.

There is no rhyme or reason to the polls. Not consistently weighing the same factors. Where we have the tougher schedule then we’re behind a team that scores more, on the other hand we’re behind teams because they have a tougher schedule. Or sometimes we’re behind teams because of last year.
I prefer computer rankings.

The only 2nd string guys who aren’t getting playing time seem to be QBs.

our own schedule is ranked 160th in the country compared to Kennesaw’s 225th. Both teams are 7-1, their loss to FBS Georgia Southern. Their best win is probably over Samford

When we beat a team it just means they weren’t any good
Just kidding
But it is noteworthy that our schedule is much tougher than Kennesaw, whoever that is.

spencer caught our touchdown at Stanford

He played QB his senior year and wide receiver prior.

Crawford is quite an addition. Big game from him even aside from the WR pass which was nicely thrown. Five catches 61 yards and a touchdown. Not bad for the fourth or fifth receiver.
I was hoping they were going to keep having him throw the ball even though in previous games it didn’t work.

Hawkins is the perfect coach for us. He is always touting the school and our history. That’s going to help with recruiting and support. He has credibility with that as an alum who’s been around.

I don’t think they’ll give him a sixth year, so he’s probably done in college.

If they could have the same size traveling numbers then they would be fine

They would be favored against all by 20 or so of them.

top 90, jumping 12 teams. Just two below Nebraska! The world turned upside down

These homer announcers are really a pain

Is the 3-3-5 their base defense, or something different for us?

Because they are on the cusp of making the playoffs, win or lose this game, the next game and the game after that and the game after that will all be the most important yet; because they are finally playing games that relate to getting into the playoffs and the playoff seeding.
At the end of the year we can decide how good we were.
One of my hopes for this year is that the team gets a win on the road against a conference team we haven’t beaten yet. That’s really the only reason this game is more important than say NAU. But next week it won’t seem that way.

I think it predates the two character state postal code
You weren’t thinking UCB were you?