That is great news, i believed that traveling during finals week always hurt the performance of our team so with the game being home this year, Freshman players not getting kicked out of their housing, and a bigger student crowd, we are certainly providing our football team a good home-field advantage. We will need it.

Now if we win our appeal with the Twins AND if Carter is healthy, this will turn out to be a good week going into Saturday's game,

Best case scenario for this coming Sunday is that three out of the four remaining teams are all from the Big Sky.

Was at the game and consider the late start and that RI does not travel well, not a bad crowd. I am hoping with an afternoon game and dry weather, we will have a better crowd next week (less students perhaps but more community).

2:00 pm

With a 7 pm game, feel like this will be a student-driven crowd. Late game for families and people out of the area to attend, but good time for a college crowd. Basketball (i think) has done a good job of getting students to "big games" . . . lets hope we have long lines when the gate opens at 6 pm.

One way we can all help out is to invite family and friends to attend the game (as a group). I got five new people to go to last week's game by taking this approach,

Moving in the right direction. Historical average home-game attendance (regular season):

2022 - 9,876
2023 - 10,966
2024 - 11,135
2025 - 12,991

I would expect a large number of Sac players will enter the portal as "insurance" against not having a schedule for next season. With only 3/4 games "inked", my guess is that they are having a very hard time finding games. Might also have a hard time holding onto players that have already committed for next year, especially any receivers.

A win is a win.

Hopefully over the next few weeks, we stay health and get back a few players that went down in the first part of the season. Especially in the secondary. Also, I believe we can play Freshman AND preserve their eligibility if they play 3 regular season games or less. I do not believe playoff games count.

Not a big Montana fan (although I do have a tremendous amount of respect for their program) but I do not know of any other program that at the administrative level as foolish as Sac state. They are a great case study on how not to behave.

Pulling 100% for Montana to not only win, but to run up the score on behalf of all of the other JV football teams.

Curious, did any Davis players get injured in the game?

Montana 42, Idaho State 38

Time left - 2 minutes left Idaho driving . . .

Poly "game notes" do not list either Conner brothers in the 2-deep.

If Ty Richardson (CB) and Garretson (LB) are still out, we will see if the defensive depth can carry us until these players return later in the year. Fingers crossed that none of these guys experienced a season ending injury.

Home attendance for the first two games:

2025 - 29,455
2024 - 23,575
2023 - 22,666
2022 - 23,216
2021 - 21,487.

So far, attendance numbers are looking pretty good.

We do have a lot of new faces on D and we seem to be playing more people. As long as we keep winning, developing depth, and staying healthy, i think we have the opportunity for a deeper playoff run.

But I do agree, it is difficult to see our D give up so many yards on the ground.

Central Washington (D II) beating Montana in first half.

Question for the group ...

For 2026, did Sacramento State cancel all Big Sky scheduled games? Been reading that we do not have a game scheduled vs. Sac in 2026 but couldn't we just keep them scheduled for the last game of the year? Any reason that we can only play them at the beginning of season (non-conference games)?

Lan on IR

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/patriots-to-sign-rb-deneric-prince-place-rb-lan-larison-on-ir/ar-AA1KfN83?ocid=BingNewsVerp

For this upcoming season, we have nine new players on our roster. That level of turnover seems crazy to me (glad football is different). I hope going forward we develop a culture in our MBB program that is more stable with players sticking around.

Based on 2025 roster, looks like we picked up additional transfers/PWO:

Teeg Slone - DB (American River)
Isaac Mancera - K (UNLV)
AJ Hasson - OL (Washington State) and a Davis High kid
Dylan Mauro - P (SW Oklahoma State)