DB pulled receivers upper body back onto the field. That made a routine call something to think about.

The Committee doesn't vote the rankings published this week.
There are a bunch of two loss teams, and voters are swayed by record. I think all the publicity about injuries is swaying voters.

There are reasons to be both optimistic and pessimistic about transfers and recruits, we’ll have to see how that works out. All FCS teams, and Mountain West teams are going to lose players to transfers. Idaho is an example where they were confident that they could continue to lose talent year after year but it caught up to them.
Davis had 17 three star recruits in 2025 in CA Forever’s list, Some of those guys may have been over rated, but some haven’t had a chance or were injured, we don’t know why many of those guys never saw the field, The best way to prepare for losing players is to build depth. Davis only felt they had 55 players they felt worth taking to Bozeman.

Regarding players who may burn a year by playing in the next game or the next two games, freshmen who have played in 3 or 4 games so far are Cory McEnroe, Brayden Ross, and Mason Walsh. Cory and Brayden have appeared in 4 games, Walsh 3. These guys have played on special teams, but in addition Cory appears on the depth chart behind Rutchena.

You must be right or else he'd be listed on the depth chart of this weeks game

He did! First game since Cal Poly.
After hearing all through the oreseason that Davis was returning all offensive line starters, idaho was only the second game that they all played.

Early in the season they just listed everyone on the D line
Ike Ikegbu made an appearance against Idaho

He broke his forearm while playing with a broken hand.

Hard to speculate about causes of injuries.
We know about 8 of the 15 season ending injuries. Williams, Nava, Perez, Vargas, Garretson, P.Connors.R.Connors, Bell. About half the injuries either took place in camp, practice, or were unnoticed in the game.

Beyond the guys who are out for the season in the secondary they have had a lot of guys who have been unavailable for games, e.g. Ty Richardson and Trey Carr. Classic depth chart a few games ago has Josiah Allen starting at one secondary position and backing up three more.

Notable that Davis beat two of those teams during their streaks, including a top 4 team on the list.

Montana State has so many blowouts that they develop depth, so they are not playing banged up or exhausted guys.
Davis plays their primary players for more snaps, doesn’t develop depth.
But there were players injured in practice even before the season started.

There are injuries that have never been mentioned.
Hard to tell if a reserve doesn’t play due to coaches decision or injury.

Team has 15 players out for the year according to Plough have to guess on some of them
Reported Injured Totton, Perez, Bell, Razor.
Suspect injured Cravin, Albert Richardson
Still out from last year Carillo.

On the positive side, we have the entire starting defense minus the Connor twins.and entire starting offense except for Nava and Williams.

I recall Plough saId in one of his press conferences a few weeks back that Mercer was also appealing.

That is said to be from Massey, so its based on a web of comparative scores. That is the same percentage that Sagarin gives in line with their 17 point differential prediction..

It was a must win road game against a team whose only FCS loss when starting QB Wood was to undefeated Montana. The game frustrated Davis fans because it potentially could have been a blowout, but it was still a solid win.

Davis already has locked in a position ahead of NAU in my opinion. Davis beat them head to head and even if NAU wins next 2 and Davis loses both, they end up with the same number if losses, the same number of FCS losses, and I think they would choose Davis based on head to head result,

Davis would win out over Sac if Davis wins one of their remaining games or if Idaho beats Sac. If Sac has five losses they are out of consideration. May be an uncomfortable feeling if they lose to Sac, but just a few years ago Davis was passed over after beating Sac.

Idaho coach postgame
idaho was 1-11 on third down, 2-6 on fourth down conversions.

On the much discussed player availability issue, the starters in this game were the starters we started the season with, minus the Connors twins and Winston Williams, and with David Main who wasn’t available at the start if the season. Nava started for the first time since being injured against Cal Poly, but left the game with an injury.

. He said that last week, talking about how they added a shift to disquise a play because they had used that play before in the game. If they are going to shift so much they need an official at practice.