UTEP is even worse than San Jose. San Diego beat NAU in last years playoffs. I don’t see them ranked higher than us , but maybe close.
We are not going to rank high in polls until we beat some higher profile FCS teams. Right now, if we beat a team they must be bad.

There’s a lot of inertia in these polls. Not just what have you done for me lately but who you are and how did you do last year.

Funny how we had a better defense in our transition years than recently. Teams often scored against us in the teens and twenties not 20s and 30s or worse

It will be interesting to see if we continue to try to run a lot of plays with the fast paced offense. . Gould’s focus on time of possession enabled the 2014 team to keep the ball for almost half the game, despite doing almost nothing when they had it. We could be better and lose by more. Regardless, I hope we try our regular approach.

There once was a controversy about removing a CA logo from the water towers and replacing with more bland UCD.
Is there any pushback against going back to Cal Aggies as a brand ? I think some Letters and Science folks were afraid some rural mud might stick to their loafers.

What constitutes better to you? Better to me is get a score, lose by less than 45 points. I think we can do that.
Last game we sat our best QB and running back, and our average pass completion neted less than 5 yards.

When you look at the 2014 game stats it will be hard not to show improvement. Didn’t cross midfield until the last play of the game
Lacy played entire game two interceptions , Manzaneras didn’t play. 115 yards total offense. I suspect coaches made limited effort to win

Good thing is we play those guys. One of these years we’ll beat Montana and Eastern Washington. We’ll always be low in the pecking order until we show we can win those kind of games.

Davis Enterprise show Logan Montgomery to illustrate Fred ARP stickerin article. Mystery why Montgomery not playing. Behind a few freshmen.
Montgomery was solid for us last year as a frosh

yep, and they discovered after they played us that they had an unstoppable whale of a fullback, unfortunately his career was shortened by injury.

The stars have to align just right for Davis to beat a PAC 12 team.
For example
1) the PAC 12 team is not that good, having an off year. 2005 Stanford was poorly coached, and certainly not one of the better teams.
2) Davis needs to be solid on D. The 2005 team had just held a FCS playoff team of that year to a under 2 touchdown score. Stanford couldn’t run on us.
3) Luck ... Stanford QB left game after hurting his hand.
Those stars don’t align this year with the exception of possibly luck, TBD

Their coach

“As far as I’m concerned,” said Lindsey, “we played for 10 minutes and they owned the other 50.”
I think the injury to Jaylin White caused a lack of focus for a bit. How is he?

215# according to this year’s roster
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A better article than the commercial competition;

https://theaggie.org/2018/09/06/uc-davis-football-2018-season-preview-and-game-1-recap/

Sample size this year is too small to generalize.
I like computer ratings where they put all the scores in and get a output that ranks teams, but that takes a half dozen games to get meaningful.
We don’t know what beating San Jose signifies because we don’t know how good or bad they are.
In San Diego vs WNM case,comparative statistics might not be meaningful if the game was not in doubt.
Like when we played TCU Boise or Oregon and they didn’t need to run up the score

I think San Diego deserves some respect based on their playoff performance the last few years. Maybe that talent is gone, it’s probably hard to maintain consistency at that level, but they’ve been a decent FCS team as long as we have. Sometimes it’s easier to be the big fish in a small pond. I assume they are good, a more or less average opponent for us. I expect they are less talented but more cohesive and better coached than San Jose; a different challenge. I’d rather see a shutout than a shootout.

I think it will be higher scoring and closer Aggies 45 - 35, or something like that. We score a little more than our average of last year because we’re better on offense and give up something around our average on defense. We have to show we can cover, which we didn’t prove successful at against SJSU. Maybe this game the defense will have a better outing, proving me wrong. D did a good job getting the ball back for the offense but gave up too much yardage, mostly to passes in the 2nd half, and now they face an accurate QB for the whole game.

And the ORs dont necessarily include the starter

I just noticed the order of the players in the depth chart listing is alphabetical
The entire depth chart is the same as last week, including listing cornerbacks as safeties and vice versa!
Well at least I learned the name of the school isn’t Cal-Davis,so there's that. Wish it were though, goes nice with the helmet logo, kind of retro

I think the broadcast Identified him as Will Martin,