The no audio at start was on ESPN too

Every “body bag” game showcases the ability of the higher ranked team to get yards after contact.

Bet the over

Excellent point. Save it for important moments.. Gbatu has shown he can do it

Those are both state schools and their tuition and fees bracket Davis’. Stony Brooks tuition and fees is around 11,000 William and Mary’s is about 25,000,

ESPN had a documentary of NIL a couple of seasons ago, and SMU was the example of the big spending school for NIL, which had been run by a collective of boosters. Now with revenue sharing the money flows through the school. So they’ve been spending big for a while.

When Sac was a member of Big Sky and Davis was D2, 1996-2024 inclusive. Davis beat Sac every year except two.

Beat UoP in 1978 with Moroski and in 1982 with O’Brien.

Davis announced the SMU game January, 2025. SMU was coming off a season in which they lost the ACC conference championship game.
Most FCS vs FBS games match nearby teams, so there is more local fan interest. Ultimately i think payout is related to attractiveness of the game.

Even when the travel roster was limited, it was larger when playing an FBS opponent. I think that was set by Big Sky conference rules

Wikipedia say the stadium surface is Bermuda Grass

I would like to see Kollock get some playing time, in either of these next two games which are likely to be one sided affairs. I think he could play without it being a QB controversy, and from a fan perspective i’d find it interesting. I suspect the SMU game will need something other than the score to be interesting.
Plough has his philosophy, which is commit to one guy, but that should leave room for the 2nd guy to get some play. When Plough was employed elsewhere, the team played Rodrigues, Hastings, and Tompkins in the first game of the 2021 Spring season, and it didn’t cause a controversy.

Reported by Hero sports that the payout by SMU is 460,000. Seems low, compared to other FBS games.
last year they allegedly got somewhere around 600,000 at washington
AI gives these numbers:
2022 at Cal: $650,000
2023. at Oregon State: $635,000
2024 at Cal: $675,000
2028 at Washington State (Future Contract): $575,000

I’d much rather they play Washington State than SMU.

I see that Zach McKinnell who placed a lot of faith in Kollock being the QB voted the Aggs 17th in this weeks ballot

In the Washington game Plough played largely second stringers after the game was out of hand in the second half. Thats why I think Kolock, and perhaps Eason will see some action. Not as an effort to start a QB controversy but so Cleeland doesn’t take too many hits. Maybe SMU will want to play reserves too, as they have only four off days between games.
For what its worth, the color commentator, George Whitfield’s, claim to fame is he has a San Diego based QB Academy., so he was looking for what he coaches QBs to do and saw it in Cleeland

If last years Washington game is any indication, we may see Kollock after the game gets out of hand. Problem is all the QBs have less experience than Cleeland.
Did Cole Tannenbaum ever get enrolled? Not that he has game experience.
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What do you like about Kollock? He isn’t a runner either. What is his differential?

Cleeland has been baited into exactly one interception; he didn’t see that the guy making the interception was in position to make the play and threw a ball with not enough pace on it. Not unexpected from a player in his second start.
Biggs says Cleeland is among the best that we’ve had at throwing the deep ball, that is high praise as it includes quite a few players that were drafted and played professionally.

I thought the color commentator was correct in his observation that Davis played more players closer to the line of scrimmage as the first half progressed, largely due to the fact that the corners had USDs receivers covered.

The commentator, George Whitfield, gushed perhaps too effusively over Cleeland. But he has a background as a QB trainer working with some NFL QBs, and having a training academy for QBs, so he has a background to support his opinion.

Vargas looked small. Maybe the contrast with Mohammad, maybe the camera angles. He didn’t have enough snaps to judge as he got injured fairly early. It looked to me like his knee gave as he turned, more than an injury caused by contact.

Anyone have an idea of Chauncey Sylvester’s status for the game? Weird that Plough raved about him in press conference Monday before PSU game, then not available. Logical to infer he might be injured in practice last week. Puzzling why he wasn’t on depth chart.