Weather forecast (1 pm kickoff).
High of 62 degrees
Winds light and variable
Partly Cloudy

This is coming after a projected sunny Friday.
Should be ideal conditions come Kickoff.

Perfect for all of us Californios to bundle up and act like we're watching a game out in Iowa or something!

Two teams that can both run the ball for 200+, it will be a matter of stopping them on the ground and Special Teams making some plays and creating field position. Ideally, the Ags will force the Go-Gos to play from behind and put the ball in the air. To do so, we'll have to protect the QB against what is statistically one of the best pass rushes in FCS football. Conversely, Marion will throw a ton of personnel groupings and formations at the Blue Force. Expect to see as many substitution matches as you've ever seen on Saturday. The Go-Gos will be running different groups in, and we will wait and send our guys out to match as late as the officials allow. Cat and mouse game that I'm really looking forward to. This thing is probably the Aggies by a TD or less and that is what I expect it to be unless we can force them to throw and/or force some turnovers and actually cash them in for once. Go Ags!

The combined record of Sac's opponents is 44-73...vs. Montana they gave up 6 sacks and only registered 1. I'm using this as a measuring stick as to the kind of output and result Davis can engineer in their matchup with a proper game plan. No sacks @ Nevada for Sac.

kickoff returns are a BIG concern for me. Punt coverage has been good, but we seem to have at least kickoff returner each game into our side of the field. That just can’t happen

Someone or some group (maybe Aggie rally committee) has put up these flyers in a ton of bathrooms all over campus saying go to the game haha

they beat Commerce now East Texas A&M who was cramping and puking in the second half despite being the home team.

Oddly, I don't remember this game being called the Causeway Classic when I was a student. Maybe it's just my memory. How long has that term been applied to the rivalry?

Wikipedia says early 1980s.

just a little over 24 hours til' the gates open... go ags!

my last year was 81 and it wasn’t called that. They had an old carriage they wheeled out as a ‘trophy’ but there was no title for the game

Great perspective, I had not taken that close a look at the schedule. 0 Sacks vs. Nevada is telling. My only concern, which I am sure has been addressed, is how we protect one of the edges in our play action protection. Mano y mano I think we're fine.

I am with you 100% with that concern. A lot of it is the kicker I'm convinced. In modern coverage schemes (unlike when I played football a long time ago), the kickers are instructed exactly where to put the ball and all the coverage shifts in that direction. I feel like we have to be mis-hitting the ball and putting it in the wrong spot. That's my hunch; I can't see our schemes being that bad. at this level of coaching/play.

Yeah, they've primarily been running all over sh*t teams, and losing/barely beating stronger ones. Still, they haven't played anyone of any significance besides Montana (SDSU ended up not as good as advertised).
They haven't won a game they were expected to lose, IMO.

Against similar opponents to Davis (SDSU, Nevada, Montana) things didn't go great. Its been a month since they've played a strong opponent (Montana).

To me, Sac is a bit of an enigma as far as how good they really are. We could beat them by 21, or it could be close. I say its a rivalry game and anything is possible- that's why these are the most fun!

Here are the stats for both teams with the overall FCS ranking shown in the parentheses beside each stat:

Massey SOS. Davis #10 Sac #26. That's an important one too.

Is this overall including FBS games and OOC?

I believe so but I'm not 100% sure. I found it over on the anygivenday.com FCS forum. Here's more from that topic:



https://www.anygivensaturday.com/forum/general-fcs/fcs-discussion/4709847-ags-game-of-the-week-week-13

My last year was 1986 and if I recall it was named the Causeway Classic in '82 or '83.

Signing off to load up the old Family Truckster with provisions, then pointing it north up the coast towards the Causeway. Safe travels to all Aggies heading to town to see that MOTHER LOVING (sic) WATER TOWER GET LIT AROUND 4:30 PM ON SATURDAY NIGHT!!!

We are Amtrak'n it! So cool to have a station in town.
(Our trip is only 46 minutes though!)

We love Amtrak. Beats the hell out of driving to the Bay Area for us!