3rd QB was doing much better, my guess is they would have done much better w him. And their propensity for TOs.

Good news was we got sacks from Parenteau, Cam Newton, and a 3rd player.

FG team needs something. Glad the kids were happy, but I'm not one for celebrating at half time. We almost blew a game that way last year!

Catch the post game locker room video? Very happy.

What time does the game start Saturday? Maybe i will make it if a late PM game. Get a Gradburger and go!

7 pm

Apparently the university is giving out two free tickets to campus staff and faculty and people with young kids for the San Diego game. Saw link on Twitter: https://www.ucdavis.edu/calendar/
Scroll down to “featured events”

Yeah, we got lucky with the coach using the wrong QB. But, that is part of the game. Some atletes are better in live action than practices and vice versa.

Maybe Brennan also erred by keeping starters out of his scrimmages.

They were clearly not ready to play.
Here is a quote from the author of the why SJSU is going to "thump" Davis:
Victor Aquino of The Mercury News in San Jose did not have a lot of good things to say about what he saw in the opener:
"The Spartan defense was overwhelmed by the Aggies’ up-tempo offense and perimeter passing and it didn’t help that the initial three-man rush had no effect slowing quarterback Jake Maier. The Aggies scored on their first possession, marching 75 yards on 12 plays. In the first half alone, they racked up 35 points and more than 400 yards of offense. In. The. First. Half."
https://247sports.com/college/washington-state/Article/Washington-State-football-The-Early-Glimpse-of-Wazzu-vs-San-Jose-State-121369864/

I was watching the stats page and I noticed that we had over 300 yards on first down in the 1st half.
Also averaged almost 8 yards a carry on first down. It's as if they hadn't bothered studying us at all, looking past us to their real challenges. Pretty silly for a team we've been competitive with in the past, but they have no institutional memory at SJSU.
Not surprising they did better after they woke up and started playing with desperation.
Now this week we have to play a veteran QB with an accurate arm. Interesting if we can avoid the pass yardage SJSU gained against us when they finally put in someone who was accurate.

We had 302 yds in the 1st Quarter!

I played a little possum on their board, said 'we' (Spartans) would beat them by 4-5 TDs.

I was going to say that a username over there seemed a little too familiar to be a coincidence!

Their fans were worried whether they would beat us soundly, or not.

The game notes are up:

http://ucdavisaggies.com/documents/2018/9/6/9_8_vs_San_Diego_Game_Notes.pdf

How do we know you’re not a San Diego fan just messing with us?

our freshman OL starter from last week, parks, isn’t listed. Probably means nothing.

one of our linemen got hurt late in the game and came up. not sure who it was.

I think the broadcast Identified him as Will Martin,

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

Another week of game notes another week of looking at the UC Davis ORs

And the ORs dont necessarily include the starter

Hey brother, Trust.

Keep an eye out for Stanford assistant coaches this Saturday.

Given we played last Thursday the extra days of rest should help

Aggies on KCRA TV News.

https://youtu.be/Hhu6Ki4BtfM

1 more day to go!

I'm going to say the Aggies win this one 41-21

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.

Can we bring the heat again? Win the turnover game?

Lawrence was supposed to be good last season too and the defense shut him down for the most part. They lost their top receivers from last season and by far their best defender. They beat up a bad D2 team in their first game so tough to tell where they are. On the other hand we beat a bottom feeder FBS team which is equivalent to at least an above average FCS team. I feel that the Aggies feed off of the SJSU game and make a statement.

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’d rather see a shutout than a shootout.
Amen.

Don't get me wrong, they very well could win this game. That being said, unless you are NDSU or JMU, ect. I don't put much stock in carry over in success from season to season. Yes, they beat NAU in the playoffs, but it's a new season. Despite the fact that they stomped Western New Mexico, they only had just over 100 yards more of offense.

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

Athletic dept had an "upcoming" sports tweet, but had SDST icon instead of USD. They seem to have taken it down now. SMH

https://twitter.com/UCDavisAggies/status/1038121585775788034

https://www.facebook.com/UCDavisAggies/photos/pb.121667286519.-2207520000.1536343586./10156824967211520/?type=3&theater