i have a feeling it will be easier to convince my wife to make the trip to San Diego, instead of Fargo!

I believe you were sitting right behind me and my son.

I believe this is the first time we’ve played a team currently ranked in the top ten (9). Stanford was #13 when we last played them in 2014. Boise was a top 20 team when we played them, not sure about TCU

CORRECTION: according to the recap in ESPN, Boise was #5 at the time we played them!

maybe the new NCAA redshirt rule will come in handy. i read an article on Yahoo about Miami's liberal use of probable redshirts in their game last weekend vs. Savannah State. If i were a Power 5 school in this situation (game 3 vs. FCS), i might get my starters/backups off the field ASAP to avoid potential injury. Kind of like game 3 of the NFL preseason!

i think we might move the ball a bit better than 2014 because of Maier. Concern is they will get a ton of pressure on us with their front 4, and they can play with 6 DB to stop the timing patterns. Maybe that will open some run lanes for the backs. Hard to imagine us getting to the corner on runs like we have the past two weeks.

It will be much COOLER than in 2014, so we have that going for us.

Sounds like he landed on the back of his head when he lept up to break up the pass. They WISELY play it very cautiously with head injuries. Glad to hear he doing well.

I think the pecking order won’t sort out until the end of September. A lot depends on who you miss ( no Weber, MSU and NAU for us) in league

When I got back to the hotel I watched the end of ASU-MSU game. Fox 40 followed that with highlights of our game (curtesy of Pluto). That was neat to see. Looked like there were a couple reporters in the sidelines and camera trucks in the lot

Sac QB Thomson went down toward the end, not sure the extent. That would be a loss for them if he misses any games

yep I was thinking Annapolis and typed Ann Arbor

Couple other things about 2005

1) we scrimmaged them in the prior spring, some kind of joint practice. You think Fred and Foster made some notes?
2) they played at Ann Arbor the prior week. Big trip, lots of sightseeing, and then fly back cross country. A little let down coming back to, especially
3) since they had no crowd. Students hadn’t returned, fans were sparse

That Stanford wasn’t terrible, they finished 5-6, 4-4 in PAC 12. They lost an OT game to UCLA, squandering a lead of something like 27-3. They win that one, and they might have been a bowl team.

As for the defense, I thought they struggled. USD seemed to have guys open all night, and they ran decently. We got no pressure on their QB. USD was in the hole the whole first half with mistakes and penalties, and played VERY conservatively. When they got back to their game plan on the third, they sliced and diced us for two easy drives.

It was kinda fun seeing USD run the old west coast offense.

They doubled Doss and I think that’s why we tried to go long so often. One long TD was dropped, a couple others were broken up by really good defensive plays. Thought we’d exploit the middle of the field more because of how they doubled the outside but I guess the streak is the hot call.

It’s that much attention it’s no wonder that hook and lateral worked so well. That was the call/play of the game. Led to the TD after they took the lead and gave us some momentum.

I’ll write tomorrow after a good night’s sleep at the Hyatt ( 3 1/2 games and a 7:00 kickoff makes for too late to drive home)

Couple quick non-football observations:

1) biggest home opener crowd in quite some time. A ton of kids running the field at halftime. Expect more in two weeks

2) game experience was much better than I’m the past. More food trucks. I thought the sideline announcer was a good addition. Fun night at the Ag!

I’m heading over in a bit. Should be a good alumni turnout. Be fun to swap stories and watch a victory.

BigSky Tv according to Facebook page. Watch on pluto

Bull in the ring isn’t part of modern football practices. We never did it under Sochor back In the early 80’s, and I doubt it ever showed up in Davis after. It’s kind of a youth football thing where coaches don’t know how to run an effective practice

It’s a very sad situation.

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

The A’s are on 1140 so no clue about the show. Tomorrow? Might have been a day early last week because we played Thursday. I thought that was when it was on last season