Surprising that we are ahead of Eastern Washington

Everyone that starts on the Oline except Jordan Ford were starters all of 2018 except Will Martin who was the returning starter at center but injured in first game 2018. Jordan Ford started at Guard for first time against NDSU, in what had been Will Martins spot at guard. Conner Pettek was injured that game so Will went in at his familiar center spot. So we have one new player who is a redshirt freshman, a highly regarded recruit in 2018 starting but not because of injury but by virtue of having earned the start when everyone was healthy.
Last year we had a lot of shuffling of the line to get new, presumably better players starting. If we’re ineffective it may be a development issue.
PS I do notice that our o-line while fairly heavy doesn’t have the real tall and big guys that Montana has. Montana has a new guard from a jc who weighs 350lb and was the eighth ranked JC offensive line recruit nationally. We may not be able to get some players. I notice Weber accepts 100% of their applicants so they can enroll anyone.

From the UC Davis Football Facebook page:

"Football fans, ROOT Sports is experiencing technical issues pushing its stream to Pluto TV. Thank you for your patience; you can listen to this game on Sports 1140 KHTK, or online through TuneIn Radio at the station's page."
The above explanation doesn’t make sense. If it was a game time issue with the feed, it wouldn’t cause the channel to not be listed on Pluto. I hope it gets added to big sky conference replay list but expect it won’t.

it would be a travesty for Davis to be ranked in the top 10, and it’s not going to happen. Losing by two touchdowns to two good teams is our only claim to be good; but they were still relatively one sided losses and we were outplayed pretty bad in the second half.The close win over San Diego is a negative. Lehigh win doesn’t impress because of who they are. Davis not even a clear favorite to win next week against UND. An objective observer might not rank us in the top 20,

Since we had almost the entire offensive unit back from last year except for Doss and one lineman, that the offense would be at least as good as last year’s. That potential hasn’t been realized. We’ve taken a step back with mostly the same personnel.

Coach Hauck, in pregame press conference in Montana, responded to a question about his teams innovative plays by saying that they also still had “meat and potatoes” football. The Aggies didn’t in this game.

Last home game, Lehigh, Pluto was unusable early in the game and never showed up on the replay list on the big sky site.All the other Big Sky home games could be watched on replay. So what gives? Why do we get the consistently bad result? Something to do with local techs, contracts, facilities or what? The game notes said it would be on Pluto.

Going to Oregon is a good choice I’d you can’t get into Davis.
Maybe they hate us because we’re egotistical.

Oregon is anti California because they’re anti growth, but how come we see all those Oregon fans with the big O signs on their windows living down here?

Non GMO cow bells

What are those states California is boycotting ? Any correlation with how people like Californians?

Sagarin has two prediction algorithms. The second has Montana favored . I’ve found no explanation of this method.
EIGENVECTOR Analysis
EFAVORITE ESPREAD EODDS EPCT%
Montana 5.31 186 65% @ UC Davis

It’s fun to listen to the opposing team broadcast sometimes. At one point their commentator thought he knew we were going to run based on the formation having receivers lined up on the line of scrimmage where they wouldn’t be eligible to receive a pass. We did run in the plays he mentioned and gained some positive yardage. He speculated our coaches had seen something to exploit against NDSU and this was an in game adjustment.

By the fourth quarter i’d long since given up on KTHK because in the first half they were playing their inane sports talk, even with a banner that said it was the Davis game. I didn’t try the actual radio broadcast but got the impression from another poster that it was not broadcasting the game.

Odds on having a working video and audio stream for this game? Has anyone seen any explanation why KHTK didn’t carry the NDSU game?
Also Pluto was unusable for the first half against Lehigh and probably because of that wasn’t available for watching as a replay on the big sky site. Even when the Lehigh game could be watched the audio was too low. Does the school have some role in setting up and validating these streams or is it just KHTK and Pluto? Does the stadium have poor internet connectivity?

I liked what the TV guys said regarding Drakely after he broke up a play, something along the lines of “Bison fans appreciate his service, if not necessarily that play”.

I think college football has a rule against injury reports.
Hawkins when asked about injuries seems to always joke about his hip or knee.

I’m sure there are lots of reasons to pick Montana to win. But the reason given by Craig basically is because they want to. Surely in a paragraph he can make a better argument than that.
Last year’s game momentum changed with the Crawford pass, we can’t count on surprising them again. We have two teams with very close offensive statistics this year, veteran quarterbacks, Our defense looks a little better statistically, and we’ve played tougher competition, but partially explaining their defense stats is they gave up 560 yards to Oregon.. on the otherhand they got some stops so it wasn’t a total blow out. But we looked better against Cal than they did against Oregon. We’re home so we should be favored slightly

he provided zero explanation of his pick so who cares?

It may be an irrelevant difference but the call was offensive pass interference rather than ineligible man downfield. If Tehran caught the ball behind the line of scrimmage, pass interference would not apply. Someone was blocking a defender in the vicinity of Tehran catching the ball.

yep, even against Lehigh we went for it on fourth down so many times because we didn’t get it in three. Offense not really at its potential yet this year.