why do you say the steam engine wasn’t a tractor? It was a self propelled vehicle not requiring a track, driven by big wheels. I think it was a tractor, an early Bio-Mass propelled tractor.

I’m a big fan of the steam engine but there is a valid reason for concern with a 100+ year old steam boiler. Does anyone fire that up anymore?

Sorry I have trouble with the names of directional schools. I tried to remember that it was the opposite of what I thought it was but it was the opposite of that.

NIU is an excellent choice as a dark horse since they will likely be favored to win their first two games; playing teams making their first appearance.

NIU doesn’t have the super big guys on defense, like Eastern’s Jay-Tee Tiuli.
Not saying they aren’t better, but size wise a typical team.

Sagarin opens the year weighting prior season, but after about six games prior season out of the picture.
The Sagarin ranking is an average of three rankings one of which is just “recent” games. I notice our ranking in recent games is higher than theirs.
One of the reasons other rating systems have us higher than Sagarin is the they factor in wins and not just points. Sagarin is just points and strength of schedule. We’re higher than Northern Iowa in systems that include wins, they are higher than us based in comparative scores and strength of schedule.
NIU Is middle of the pack in their conference statistics. One thing that jumps out when looking at their depth chart is their offensive linemen are very big guys. Not just heavy but 6’5 to 6’8”. Our defense might be expected to have trouble seeing their QB except he’s 6’5” 238

And the committee’s simple rating system is more favorable to us than Sagarin’s because:
1) it give a bonus for FBs win
2) factors in wins rather than pure points
3) limits impact of scores at 21 point differential.

Agreed, so why with a much better team did we lose to them last year?? Not talent because we dominated in the second half.
I don’t know if we gained so much yardage running in the second half because they were giving us the run because of their lead or if they just couldn’t defend it. Their record this year points to the later.

Unfortunately they beat us last year.
How we ever lose to these guys is a mystery to me. Randy Wright never lost to this team.

Good, but are those guys wearing shoes? No shoes!

Maybe get a room size refrigerator for the performance center and practice there, supplemented by swims in the un-heated rec pool.

Why isn’t San Jose Nevada game moved to Reno?

Majority isn’t all, I think it was 90%
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davis-build-student-athlete-performance-center

Will they have Naugahyde?

I bet air filters would attract some bids.

is it smoke free?

Is there a revenue share to the visiting team on a FCS playoff game?
Hosting the games seems like it might lose money as the host school has to bid for it.

100% sounds more certain than could.
Personally don’t care about the seed. I do hope we make it into the playoffs.
I’m sad that if we don’t play we won’t be Big Sky co-champs.
Rather not have the game played than to play under poor conditions.

He's thrown deep on occasion, but Doss was double covered.

Not criticizing, just saying let's see what we can get on the ground. That's how we came back against them last year and Its been their weakness this year. We've showed we can run more effectively this year, although we had a struggle doing it consistently against EWU, we had some success against them and against everyone else.

Big Sky stats have Wyatt playing in 6 games already.