Interestingly, the massyratings.com has us ranked 12th with our SOS ranked 3rd overall and predicting 1.30 estimated wins in our remaining games and 1.70 estimated loses.

Key

Ch = change in ranking since previous update
Rating = overall assessment of the team's performance to this point in the season
Power = estimated team strength going forward (used to make predictions)
Offense = ability to score points
Defense = ability to prevent the opponent from scoring
HA = estimated home advantage
SchP = strength of schedule for games played so far
SchF = strength of schedule for all games, including those currently scheduled
E[W]-E[L] = expected wins and losses for remaining schedule

Rankings are listed in parenthesis beside the ratings.

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anygivensaturday.com poll after week 9

AGS Poll Results - WEEK 9 - 2019 SEASON

10/28/2019

Rank Team: Total Points First Place Votes

1 North Dakota State Bison 2198 87
2 James Madison Dukes 2104 1
3 South Dakota State Jackrabbits 1958
4 Weber State Wildcats 1939
5 Sac State Hornets 1894
6 Montana Grizzlies 1675
7 Northern Iowa Panthers 1558
8 Illinois State Redbirds 1533
9 Kennesaw State Owls 1467
10 Central Arkansas Bears 1381
11 Villanova Wildcats 1311
12 Furman Paladins 1216
13 Stony Brook Seawolves 933
14T Dartmouth Big Green 886
14T Princeton Tigers 886
16 Montana State Bobcats 712
17 Central Connecticut State Blue Devils 660
18 Wofford Terriers 563
19 Southeast Missouri State Redhawks 538
20 North Carolina A&T Aggies 477
21 North Dakota Fighting Hawks 417
22 Florida A&M Rattlers 387
23 Towson Tigers 248
24 Austin Peay Governors 213
25 Albany Great Danes 202

ORV:

26 Youngstown State Penguins 173
27 Sam Houston State Bearkats 162
28 Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks 154
29 Nicholls State Colonels 135
30 The Citadel Bulldogs 102
31 Southern Illinois Salukis 89
32 New Hampshire Wildcats 74
33 Jacksonville State Gamecocks 68
34 UC Davis Aggies 66
35 Elon Phoenix 55
36 San Diego Toreros 34
37 Southeastern Louisiana Lions 26
38 Yale Bulldogs 19
39 Chattanooga Mocs 15
40 Campbell Fighting Camels 14

Most Significant Win: Stony Brook Seawolves
Most Significant Loss: Villanova Wildcats

Taylor is so established in Sacramento and I think he would love to be the coach that builds the Hornets into an FCS power.

We'll have to play a whole lot better to stay in the game with Sac. They're for real this year and Hornet Stadium will be bursting with Hornet fans. The Buzz is on in Sac...

9 Raiders caught passes today from Carr and Doss wasn't one of them so I'm not sure if he played at all.

Well I was certainly impressed with his creative play calling when they steamrolled Montana. The Griz didn't have a clue as to how to defend the Sac playbook. Taylor also has tremendous connections with schools in the greater Sacramento area and he'll be able to land some great local recruits because of that. I've always felt that Sac is a sleeping giant that just needed the right catalyst to really get them going and Taylor may just be that catalyst.

It was rare to have such a mobile big as Morgan was. Her speed and agility was practically unstoppable in the Big West. None of our bigs have that kind of agility so, I think you're right, we need them to play good D, clog up the middle, block out, snag rebounds and make opportunistic shots. I like it that Stobbart can step out and hit the 3 too. Athletic, quick forwards with size could them problems inside though. It will be interesting to see how Jen decides to utilize our bigs this year.

Taylor could be a strong candidate for the Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award this year...same award Hawk won last year.

Thanks for the all the updates! I hope Stobbart comes around. She was a highly ranked post player when we recruited her. I expected big things from her but she seems to have struggled a bit since she arrived. Maybe with more playing time she'll settle in. Nice to hear that Gray and Turner look pretty good as true freshmen.

Who have been our scorers?

We've had trouble with teams that press us in years past with the last couple of years being the exception.

Svanholm has to sit out a year due to the D1 transfer rule.

Sounds like there's a lot of work to do for the Ags. Stanislaus State was not a very good D2 team last year.

Thanks guys! Love the look of the court!

No is no media coverage at all for these exhibition games. No live stats...nothing...so please post up scores and your observations. Thanks!

I'm hoping that Thomas takes a medical redshirt for this season given that our playoff hopes are all but gone. It would be nice to have him back and healthy for 2 more years.

I look forward to hearing your observations about the team. I think it's probably going to take some time before this team gels together given that the twins and Morgan are gone now.

Quotes from the Davis Enterprise article:

“They’re a big, strong, fast, physical, well-coached team and you have to give them credit for how they played,” said Aggie coach Dan Hawkins of Weber State. “They do enough things to throw you off-balance a little bit, plus we had so few plays in the first half that we didn’t really have many chances to get things going.”

Said Weber State coach Jay Hill, whose team is well on its way to a third straight championship, “We expected a very good team and they were. We put pressure on them early, but they hung in there. When it looked like we were going to pull away, we never could. That’s the sign of a very well-coached team. That was a team that had all of our focus and attention because of how good they are and how good they’ve been. But we executed.”

Added Hill, “I think we have the three best defensive linemen — defensive ends Adam Rodriquez and Jonah Williams and tackle Jared Schiess — in the conference. Those guys are big-time players. When our coverage is where it needs to be, like it was today, we’ve got a chance to give quarterbacks fits, and we did. For us to come here and play the way we did was huge.”

“I’ve never been prouder of these guys,” he said. “They battled and they stayed in it and they kept competing. People think Aggie Pride is all about winning. It’s not. It’s about how you live your life. Tonight we showed Aggie Pride.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/aggies-shut-down-by-front-running-weber-state/

You are absolutely right about giving WSU a lot of credit for shutting down the Aggie offense the way they did. We have some talented weapons on offense and Weber slammed the door shut on us. They had an outstanding game plan and we were unable to adjust and respond to it.

I think the game was so lopsided mainly because of their outstanding game plan and execution and a combination of us not being able to execute anything that was disruptive at all to their defense. Whether that was poor execution on our part or a poor game plan by our coaches or something of both, I don't know, but they made our offense look awful.

I don't ever remember seeing an Aggie offense so thoroughly dominated by an FCS team. Hats off to WSU. They are proof positive that an explosive offense is not the only way to be a Top 5 FCS team.

Official attendance: 8105. That's over 3000 less than the Poly game.