Crawford was grabbed.

Time consuming drive and score would be great.

Aggie D tough. I think their QB is a bit flustered. This isn’t Idaho state.

Absolutely not targeting. He was going for ball and not receiver.

Why not put Devon king on their stud receiver?

Twice their receiver got behind corners and safeties.

Great drive. They can move the ball.

Ticky-tax hold call. Like Rodrigues mobility.

Good run by Babb. Hit hole fast.

Nice stop of their first drive.

Catch the ball Harrel. Replay the play

Catc he the ball. Can’t do this.

Missouri Valley is the same. It makes sense that most folks want day games, and hence overlap. Could argue a dome would lessen the desire for a day game.

don’t know but that sounds possible. So the year status doesn’t roll over this fall? If that is the case fall 2020/spring 2012/fall 2031no change of status for anyone?

he’s 22 and a junior. Maybe medical redshirt. Doesn’t appear to be an LDS redshirt situation.

No doubt Weber is the prevailing strong favorite, but barring a poor turnover margin I think the game should be quite competitive and better than recent history. Weber’s weak spot the past couple years was QB - not enough offense to overcome JMU for instance so that is likely to be an improvement for them. However, and I know this may be an insufficient sample size, after seeing the Idaho game, the Aggie offense is loaded IMO with Crawford back and a bevy of receivers, a VERY serviceable backup to Gilliam (who continues to be stalwart) and tight ends who are faster than Preece. And when is the last time we saw an Aggie defense hold a team to 17 points on the road? Anyway, should be a good game.

The potential issue with considering fall games is that due to virtually no FCS schools having games, the few that played in the fall (limited schedule) oftentimes played FBS schools (some exclusively, e.g., central Arkansas and Campbell to name a couple- but as most of those who played only FCS are not playing this spring, the cost of going 0-4 against FBS schools becomes moot.

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Does anyone know how many FCS teams are playing this spring? It looks like some of them played a good part of their schedule in the fall.

Good question. I think right at about 100 but I think I heard that quite a while ago. As you note some teams played on the fall (and many of those are not playing in the spring). Examples are Central Arkansas, Campbell and I think a northern Alabama.

I think (but am not positive) that fall games will not be considered in terms of possible playoff seeding

I think one thing maybe overlooked in the comments in this thread (maybe I missed) was the play of the offensive line. They protected Rodrigues well (and wasn’t it nice to see his nimbleness and evading a rush for a couple big plays) and blew huge holes for Gilliam and Larison in the last couple of drives. On the last TD Blake Thorpe (lined up a bit offset as a blocking tight end) was just looking for someone to block and had a hard time finding someone as they had been “previously detained”.

These FCS polls - especially early are a joke. New Hampshire 0-1 and ahead of Aggies. Illinois State 0-2 and ahead of Ags. I watched some of the UNI- Illinois State game (boring) and neither offense could do much of anything. UNI defense is good, but they look quite pedestrian on offense. I expected their offense to be better this year but I don’t see it . Illinois State QB was just poor (probably should just say passing game) and run game not much better. I. state 69 yards passing and about 120 rushing. Uni 145 yards passing 0td/1 int and less than 100 yards rushing.

From my watching some FCS games on ESPN+, first glimpse of Aggies and EWU (and of course Weber) make the big sky look pretty good in comparison and underrated- except for Weber. My bet is that South Dakota State will recover from their 1 loss and take Missouri Valley. Overall Missouri Valley is down this year.