The game was suspended with 8:37 left in the 4th quarter. Here are the stats up to that point:

Well, hopefully a learning lesson and we clean up the holes and move forward.

Pretty expensive scrimmage.

The little yellow box on espn that formally said “game delayed due to lightening” now says “Game declared No Contest due to lightening”

Should Davis and Mercer find themselves in consideration for playoffs in a couple months, how would a no contest game potentially help or hurt with the committee?

Do they still get paid?

Shame. Well we got a look at the team and they look promising. We need to use the TE more.

10 FCS games remaining to win 7.

This No Contest could hurt both teams come playoff selection time.

ESPN has posted a "No Contest" on its website. A question to ponder here is which Caden Pinnick is going to show up against Utah Tech? The first half wudnerkind or the second half deer in the headlights?

What are the rules for declaring a winner v no contest? I assumed it was like baseball and obviously in 4th quarter we collect the W, deserved or no

the city of Montgomery gave them a time limit and they passed it, would have to be 5 minutes left or less to declare a winner

We can't count on 7 wins with a smaller bubble this year (Ivy League auto bid) and past experiences with the committee.

Probably means we need to beat 8/10 (in other words, winning every game not MSU and UW including three current top 20 teams) to be a lock. Doable, but frustrating that the schedule situation is already stacked against us Week 1

Welcome to the Dirty South! Lived in NC over 30 years and have been to concerts, soccer games, etc. during May through September and scheduling anything after 5p becomes a weather crap-shoot.

Ok so then what genius decided Montgomery, AL at this time for this game?

Yea honestly wtf was this neutral site. What a joke.

Keep in mind that there are schools throughout the south and Midwest that have weather like this. No contest is an unusual outcome. But in this case, the city of Montgomery is incentivized to wrap it up and get all the security and ushers off the clock because they aren’t invested in the outcome. Incentives may be different when one of the teams operates the venue.

In reading the NCAA rules, there are 4 options when the game cannot be completed - 1. reschedule the remaining minutes at a later date, 2. Accept the current score as final if both teams agree, 3. Forfeit, 4. Declare no contest. Defers to conference policy to decide which option. In the appendix, this exact scenario is described, for a neutral site out of conference game, choosing an option should be by joint agreement of the ADs, and if they don’t agree, will default to conference policy of whichever team is designated as “home”, in this case would have been governed by SoCon policy.

I know neither team was trying to start the season like this... But what a stupid start to the season.

Although it sucks, I thought the team looked good for the most part. We are young so we got a little complacent. This actually might be a good lesson to learn early. And who knows? Maybe Mercer has a really great season which come selection time might weigh in our favor.

I’m not sure if the committee is even allowed to acknowledge this game. I think all stats were voided and erased from the history books.

I do hope that this teaches the players and maybe coaches to not become too complacent. Maybe if the lead was a lot bigger they could’ve declared this an Aggie W, so something for them to think about. Although maybe it would’ve been a no contest anyway so you can discard what I’m saying here in that case.

although we looked great at times. This looks like an uphill battle..

From Bob Dunning's Substack article about the game:

According to UC Davis Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca, “The decision was made jointly by the two athletic directors after much discussion.

“It is possible late in the game to declare one team as the victor, but given that it was a one-score game and Mercer had the ball near midfield, that wasn’t going to happen.”

DeLuca added, “It’s a disappointing outcome for everybody to come all this way and not have a final decision. But on the positive side, we saw some really great plays and some emerging stars. Everybody is disappointed with the decision, but it’s been made and there’s a lot of football yet to be played.”

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/mother-nature-has-final-say-as-aggie?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=171783099&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

So maybe if Davis held their halftime lead and were up 3+ scores, the Mercer AD may have conceded. Not a guarantee, but the outcome of the game was not entirely out of the team's control. I hope we come out firing against Utah Tech.

I agree. If our lead would have been "insurmountable" then maybe the AD's would have agreed to give the Ags a win. The Ags won the first half but were losing the second half and Mercer was driving. They had all the momentum and the Ags were scrambling to hang on. We'll never know how it may have ended if the lightning hadn't interfered though.

What an incredibly frustrating way for all of this to play out. I guess it's good to get some of the young guys game time experience, but for both teams to go out there and risk injury for it all to just be null and void sucks. It also gives Plough and company the opportunity to go to the drawing board and figure out what Mercer did at halftime because what a tale of two halves this game was.

Keep in mind that there are schools throughout the south and Midwest that have weather like this.

Absolutely correct - pretty much anywhere east of the Mississippi you are subject to weather like this.

Sooooo how about pick a neutral location with 0% chance of this. Again this is a neutral location that was 3 hours from Mercer. Make it 3 hours from Davis… make it in another state?

This feels completely avoidable. I wouldn’t be saying this if this was a true away/home game situation but for this to be a neutral site game is an absolute joke.

Yeah or if they really want it in the South then maybe put it in a dome

^ perfect.

Starters memorialized.
After all the commentary about five returning OL starters, the right side of the line had a redshirt freshman playing tackle and the returning starter at tackle moving to guard. Played a lot of two tight end. The run blocking was not consistent.

On defense started a true freshman, the transfer from D3 Tufts, a redshirt freshman DT.. The defense was great except the big plays which was probably expected as it had so many new players and players in new roles.
The transfer from Dartmouth didn’t start but played quite a bit.

TE 0 SIMPSON,I
WR 7 DOBBINS,S
WR 8 GBATU, JR.,S
QB 12 PINNICK,C
RB 20 FISHER,J
TE 23 WILLIAMS,W
OL 52 COLLIER,Z
OL 64 RODRIGUEZ,J
OL 65 POROTESANO,D
OL 70 SIMONSON,E
OL 79 NAVA,E

DB 1 RIDDICK,K
DB 3 RICHARDSON,T
DB 4 CONNORS,R
LB 8 RUTCHENA,N
DB 10 STANLEY,J
DB 11 COFIELD,D
LB 31 GOLIGOSKI,S
LB 39 CONNORS,P
DL 90 CARRADE,T
DL 92 MAYO JR.,R
DL 94 PSYK,J