I think that perception was based on losing Eli Simonson, who Mike Cody called the best blocker he has had. if the Enterprise is correct, left tackle is now filled by David Porotesano who has substantial starting experience at right tackle. Time will tell if that is a weak link. Porotesano is a redshirt sophomore, its rare for a o lineman to have played as much as he has in first two years.

Davis Enterprise 8/22 says this is the starting line.
Plough said AJ Hasson right tackle
David Main right guard
Zaire Collier center
Jayden Montanez left guard
David Porotesano left tackle

Two divisions would weaken the second tier teams recruiting further. ( Look what the FCS label does)
The teams added were teams we that were on many big sky teams schedules anyway, so what problem are we trying to solve? I guess missing out on playing identical schedules. Probably Montana fans griping that Davis doesn’t play Montana State

Thanks for pointing the Instagram video out.

The team preview at ucdavisaggies.com left Zach Jones and Tyler Hennessy unmentioned as wide receivers.

When i see predictions of going 11-1 they are often based on running through the schedule and concluding Davis would be favored in 11 of the games. Unfortunately its harder than that. A team has to be much better than all of the opponents to go undefeated in those 11 games. If the team is 90% likely to win each game the odds are they’ll lose one.

They have an offensive team preview posted. They don’t mention any names that were not on the spring roster. They used to do this by interviewing the position coaches who would sometimes mention newcomers. One of the points of interest is if any of the approximately 25 new players pop, but nothing about them.
https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2026/8/19/football-position-preview-inside-the-2026-aggie-offense.aspx

There should be a depth chart posted in about a week, in the game notes Also they usually have position reviews posted starting about now. I don’t know if they intend to this year.

i’m old enough to remember when the part of town around the Greyhound stations weren’t at that time a bad part of town, and the Greyhound station was similar to the airport, with lots of connections on the board and fairly clean. For example San Fran, with the Greyhound station near UN plaza, and a federal court house

I think it’s a given that Cleeland can sling it in practice. How he responds within a game is the question. We’ll find out in a little less than 2 weeks. It is a little unusual that a team has no QB who has played more than a few series. Cleeland has twice as many completions as the the QB who has the next most. He has two.

I’m not critical of them not updating the roster incrementally. I was giving reasons why some of the desired info in movielover’s list was lacking.

Plough said Tennenbom was to be joining the team late, as he is a grad student and had not completed enrollment. I believe enrollment is a prerequisite of being on a roster. This is his last year unless he gets some exemption. He entered the portal before last season, but didn’t join a team, costing him a year of his five year window.
Taumoepeau is a walk-on. Players pre Davis bios are usually copied from the signing day press release, no scholarship - no bio is the result. This is wrong, some have impressive and interesting bios.
Eason’s number changed mid season last year. I don’t know why he’s on his fourth number, unless maybe #14 was in the laundry.

I think #17 is Cole Tannenbaum. Eason seems to have changed numbers again. . What is source of the picture?

Anyone want to venture a guess as to who replaces Dobbins’ 58 catches? Not that there are a lack of candidates, WR seemed a deep group. But no wide receivers besides Gbatu and Dobbins had more than 15 catches.

Surprisingly good coverage of the scrimmage. I was able to read it although i don’t subscribe.
https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggie-coach-sees-progress-at-scrimmage/article_d4c1ab5f-446c-4176-9d06-83b8bcc57841.html

This is not the first time I've seen the field called Bog Biggs field

I thought the same about Palm trees being So Cal, but the ones on the Embarcadero in SF have turned out nice.

On the mention of Zach Jones instead of Dobbins, Dobbins who appeared in 27 games over 2 years and made 12 starts might not be “someone to watch for”, as an already familiar story. And Dobbins didn’t participate in spring ball (injured?). Zach Jones did participate in spring ball, would have been in excellent shape as he was on the Davis track team which overlapped. In addition Zach Jones was racking up stats at end of last year, running and receiving, 7 touchdowns in 20 touches if i recall correctly.

What tape is on Kollock? Two year old HS tape?

People, not necessarily the same ones, make two arguments regarding Pinnick.
1) That Davis won’t take a step back because they are starting a redshirt freshman who has very limited game experience because Pinnick was effective as a redshirt freshman last year.
2) Pinnick made a lot of freshman mistakes.
We’ll have to see if Cleeland has the it factor that Pinnick had.

Neither QB has taken meaningful snaps, zero for Kollock and a series for Cleeland. I don’t think there’s a difference in how a team will prepare for either one of them.