Obviously, I live south, so I know zero about UC Davis' team. Is there any chance this another Appalachian State waiting to happen? Or is this just a "warm-up" for Colorado? Are they better than SDSU?

Help me out here on what to expect about the level of their play, I have no idea what I'm going to see.

UC Davis is going to show up, take a beating, head over to the pay window, collect their check and go home. This is nothing more than a money game for them (e.g., San Jose v. Alabama)...

IMO, they are on a par with Sac State and not as good as Eastern WA.

I see a 30-40 point beatdown (only because JT doesn't like running up the score).

71Bear;366187 said:

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UC Davis is going to show up, take a beating, head over to the pay window, collect their check and go home. This is nothing more than a money game for them (e.g., San Jose v. Alabama)...

IMO, they are on a par with Sac State and not as good as Eastern WA.

I see a 30-40 point beatdown (only because JT doesn't like running up the score).

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That's what they said about Appalachian State!
... although I'm not going to worry about once-in-a-decade upset happening to us. The worst that I can reasonably expect is like the 2005 Sac State game, where they play us tough and we do not look impressive and dominant enough.

Not with a brand new QB starting for Davis.

No chance of upset.

Win Big. Bears have a chip on their shoulder.

Does anyone have a link where we can read about Davis' team?
I know nothing about them...

jakbear;366203 said:

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Does anyone have a link where we can read about Davis' team?
I know nothing about them...

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Here's an article that came out today...

http://www.dailydemocrat.com/ci_15949356?source=most_viewed

sandiegobears;366185 said:

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Obviously, I live south, so I know zero about UC Davis' team. Is there any chance this another Appalachian State waiting to happen? Or is this just a "warm-up" for Colorado? Are they better than SDSU?

Help me out here on what to expect about the level of their play, I have no idea what I'm going to see.

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Appalachian State was the FCS champ the year before or close to it...and then that year as well....US Davis is not even close to that level of play......they will earn their money by getting massacred...

Conmparing A-State and Davis is like comparing Alabama and Washington State. THey may play at the same level but they are worlds apart in ability.

Davis has lost to Sac State the last two years. Davis is starting a redshirt freshman quarterback, having lost last year's starter to the ministry.

If the Bears don't blow Davis off the field, it will be a very long football season.

sandiegobears;366185 said:

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Obviously, I live south, so I know zero about UC Davis' team. Is there any chance this another Appalachian State waiting to happen? Or is this just a "warm-up" for Colorado? Are they better than SDSU?

Help me out here on what to expect about the level of their play, I have no idea what I'm going to see.

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Yes, I expect UC Davis to be there on Saturday.

Either we blow them out by 30+ or we will never get ranked this year. I don't endorse it--I just recognize it. OTOH, a closer score will be better for the team in the long run: reminder there's work to do.

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Davis has lost to Sac State the last two years. Davis is starting a redshirt freshman quarterback, having lost last year's starter to the ministry.

If the Bears don't blow Davis off the field, it will be a very long football season.

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agreed..

Expectations ?
- warm sunny day
- have a few cold ones before kick-off
- sit with my kids for the final season in the old memorial stadium
- see some old friends. Compliment my friends on their own kids.
- hopefully the Bears will win.

jakbear;366203 said:

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Does anyone have a link where we can read about Davis' team?
I know nothing about them...

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Here's the link to the Sac Bee's preview of UCD football for this season.

http://www.sacbee.com/2010/08/31/2994073/uc-davis-breaks-tradition-by-starting.html

I hope your team is as arrogant as the posters in this thread. Funny how a certain team that finished in the middle of the Pac 10 in 2005 had the same thoughts going into the game.

Anyways, if any of you actually want to discuss our current squad or learn more about the proud tradition of UC Davis Aggie Football, more than welcome to come over to our boards. I feel that this is an exciting day for the UC system as a whole. Enjoy our wine before the game.

www.aggiesportstalk.com

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I hope your team is as arrogant as posters on this board. Funny how a certain team that finished in the middle of the Pac 10 in 2005 had the same thoughts going into the game.

Anyways, if any of you actually want to discuss our current squad or learn more about the proud tradition of UC Davis Aggie Football, more than welcome to come over to our boards. I feel that this is an exciting day for the UC system as a whole. Enjoy our wine before the game.

www.aggiesportstalk.com

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You just didn't compare us to the Furd. No he di-ant.

Me...uhh...me visit the Davis board...ahaa...ahhaaa....ahawahhh haw hawwaaahhh.....
Hate to disappoint you but Cal's football team won't repeat a 'furd......AHAHHAAAAAHHHHAAAHHAHAHHAAAA

aweissburg;366197 said:

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Win Big. Bears have a chip on their shoulder.

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AggieHex08;366381 said:

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I hope your team is as arrogant as the posters in this thread.

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We're just playing around, but da Bears are not. They are out for blood.


Fig 1. Oski and family in their winter coats, feasting on Aggie.

AggieHex08;366381 said:

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I hope your team is as arrogant as the posters in this thread.

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Sorry, they aren't.

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Funny how a certain team that finished in the middle of the Pac 10 in 2005 had the same thoughts going into the game.

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Trust us, we all thought the result of the game was very funny! I know I was toasting UCD many days after the results for that particular game.

Regardless, the fact of the matter is this is expected to be an uneven contest, and Davis should not pose a serious threat to this Cal team. If that doesn't hold to be true, this board will melt down and most of us will get quietly (or not so quietly as the case may be) drunk. It would be a huge upset victory for Davis.

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I feel that this is an exciting day for the UC system as a whole. Enjoy our wine before the game.

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Absolutely agreed. I'm glad we're playing Davis, although the two schools have not played much over the years, there is a tradition going very far back and it's great to see it continued here.

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You just didn't compare us to the Furd. No he di-ant.

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Maybe UC Davis will pull a Sac State (You like that aggie?) and keep the game close for a half. That's the best UC Davis can expect, and if that happens I hope JT runs the team until every guy on the team pukes.

No, that's just mean. If Davis keeps it close, JT should have a calm discussion with the team where he explains that they have lots of work to do, but if they work really hard maybe they can beat Washington State in Pullman or even make a bowl game.

Not much arrogance Hex when the Ags finished 6-5 and lost the Causeway. The Big West title is equal to WSU team, last place in PX. You got a redshirt freshman at QB (Wright) with no one to throw to since Bakari and Carter are both gone, about a dozen running backs platooning with Reese (from Davis) and Trombetta (who always gets injured) who all get 3 yards a carry, a couple solid O-lineman, crappy llinebackers, an average FCS DL, and a notoriously iffy secondary.

Trust me, I know. No need to go over to your board to get the history of Aggie football because there hasn't been one worth reading about since the 90's . . . or since Coach Sochor (a football god) left to coach your golf team.

http://aggiesportstalk.yuku.com/sreply/21897/t/Cal-Game-web-sites.html

If you think our thread is arrogant, you've never been to the UCLA or USC boards. I'd give this a 4/10. For example, here are some UCLA fans talking about how they're going to blow out an actual BCS conference team:

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=12&f=1738&t=6276948

Here's 9-4, middle of the conference USC talking about how they are "only" 19 point favorites against another 1-A team:
http://wearesc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=134930

I get that you take this thread personally because it's about your team, but don't sell your soul to Satan because of it. And make no mistake, USC's boards are at best no better than here, and UCLA's boards are far, far worse if you read them for any length of time, and I say that as someone who much prefers UCLA students in real life.

AggieHex08;366381 said:

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I hope your team is as arrogant as the posters in this thread. Funny how a certain team that finished in the middle of the Pac 10 in 2005 had the same thoughts going into the game.

Anyways, if any of you actually want to discuss our current squad or learn more about the proud tradition of UC Davis Aggie Football, more than welcome to come over to our boards. I feel that this is an exciting day for the UC system as a whole. Enjoy our wine before the game.

www.aggiesportstalk.com

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As someone who went to graduate school at Davis, let me say that I loved Davis, as the school has a lot of awesome qualities. However, football is not one of them. The whole football experience was really weird at Davis, it totally reminded me of high school. Not too many students were really into it, not too many went to the games...it was kinda disappointing actually, cause I expected more. Let's just say BCS football is not even in the same realm. As a side note, the band-uh is one of the more, uh, lets just say "interesting" things I've seen. Its a weird cross between the worse qualities of the Stanford band (ie trying way too hard to be irreverent) and the UCLA band (trying way too hard to be unlike the Cal band (dude, nice sunglasses - and yet - you are STILL PLAYING OUR SONGS!!!......wait....aren't those our uniforms too!??!? can't you guys get some fancy capes or something?) You thought watching the UCLA band was pathetic, wait till you see this. I hope Davis brings their full band and that they perform, should be entertaining, at the very least.

One of my mentors was actually Jim Sochor, former longtime Davis HC, (cause I wanted to get into sports law) and we had a lot of conversations about Davis football, how they needed to improve, how to raise their profile, etc. And one thing we always talked about was how great it would be to get a game with Cal, just to generate some excitement in the Davis community and to raise the profile of the football program. However, even he had no delusions about Davis' chances when playing Cal. He admitted Davis would probably get creamed, but it would be worth it anyways.

So, I can see your point of view. No one wants to go to a opponent's board and read that the opponent's fans are totally disrespecting your team. However, you have to also see our perspective. We haven't lost too many OOC home games in the Tedford era. We've beaten some pretty decent teams (Tennessee, to name a few). And we've normally demolished weaker OOC teams, even when we aren't that good (see Maryland last year). So I don't think its unreasonable to think we are going to be able to handle Davis. And yes, you guys did beat Stanford (and we were all rooting for you then) but remember, we beat the same Stanford team that year 27-3, with our fullback at QB.

More information on the Cal er, I mean UC Davis Band-uh. Just like that zany Stanford [sic] band: per Wiki

"The Band-uh! has been occasionally associated with controversial and obscene antics. It was reprimanded several times in the 1970's. In 1992 the band was put on probation after a sexual harassment charge was made against the student director. In 2008, the staff director of the band, who is not a student, filed a sexual harassment complaint to the university after several incidents involving the removal of shirts, offensive language and gestures, and lewd behavior.[1] In October, 2008, he left temporarily on a "leave of absence because of all the band stress."[2]
The Band-uh! is mostly student-run and managed, and participation in the band is open to any student of UC Davis, even if they don't know how to play an instrument."

I'm all for controversial behavior, but you gotta at least learn how to play an instrument....right? right?



Hey Suzy, you actually know how to play that trumpet, right? right?

Reading the rest of the comments, it looks like I was a bit over-reactive in my initial posts. My brother went to Cal and I've been reading this site since it was CyberBears, just jumped the gun a little when reading the comments in regards to my Alma Mater.

And Ducky, not sure when you went to grad school, but in the transition to Division I, things have improved a bit with our "high school" atmosphere. The students at UC Davis voted to have the highest fees in the UC system so we could transition to Division I. Every Davis student since 2003 pays $54 per year going directly to UC Davis Athletics. This was on top of a fee passed in 1999 that charges students $18 per quarter to build facilities like our new football stadium. Hence, a good amount of students are now getting excited about Aggie Athletics and about our recent transition to Division I. Games like this are why we made the move.

UC Davis alumni and students are pumped about this game. We're expecting to get blown out, but excited to see our boys play in front of 60,000 blue and gold fans. You'll see the highest attendance for a I-AA game in a long time. Win or lose, expect all us Aggies to booze and be merry. :beer:

AggieHex08;366653 said:

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Reading the rest of the comments, it looks like I was a bit over-reactive in my initial posts. My brother went to Cal and I've been reading this site since it was CyberBears, just jumped the gun a little when reading the comments in regards to my Alma Mater.

And Ducky, not sure when you went to grad school, but in the transition to Division I, things have improved a bit with our "high school" atmosphere. The students at UC Davis voted to have the highest fees in the UC system so we could transition to Division I. Every Davis student since 2003 pays $54 per year going directly to UC Davis Athletics. This was on top of a fee passed in 1999 that charges students $18 per quarter to build facilities like our new football stadium. Hence, a good amount of students are now getting excited about Aggie Athletics and about our recent transition to Division I. Games like this are why we made the move.

UC Davis alumni and students are pumped about this game. We're expecting to get blown out, but excited to see our boys play in front of 60,000 blue and gold fans. You'll see the highest attendance for a I-AA game in a long time. Win or lose, expect all us Aggies to booze and be merry. :beer:

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Actually AggieHex, maybe because there is no real sports rivalry but most people I know think very highly of you guys.....in fact, after fUCLA which we know are clowns and plastic doll bangers, UCSD and UCD are the 2 best UC's out there.....we're just yanking your chain....plus I used to be really into wine and admired some of the Viticultural prowess you have

I expect a lopsided Cal win. But this is a game that Cal should NOT have scheduled. There is no upside to this game really. Anything but a very big and totally dominating win will be met with criticism. It is at home, the Bears should be able to play lots of players but this is a game that a program like Cal really has no business playing IMO.

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I expect a lopsided Cal win. But this is a game that Cal should NOT have scheduled. There is no upside to this game really. Anything but a very big and totally dominating win will be met with criticism. It is at home, the Bears should be able to play lots of players but this is a game that a program like Cal really has no business playing IMO.

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... let's just say we're still playing a 11-game schedule. This is just a glorified scrimmage between the varsity and the JV.

6956bear;366742 said:

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I expect a lopsided Cal win. But this is a game that Cal should NOT have scheduled. There is no upside to this game really. Anything but a very big and totally dominating win will be met with criticism. It is at home, the Bears should be able to play lots of players but this is a game that a program like Cal really has no business playing IMO.

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Would you prefer Eastern Washington and the 78 fans they'd bring? Cal plays 9 conference games and always plays 1 or 2 more BCS opponents. Would you prefer 12 BCS opponents? Or paying a team like SJSU $1 million to play a one-and-done? Almost everyone plays FCS teams now - Welcome to 2010! This game makes more sense than any other FCS game for Cal.

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we shouldn't be scheduling fcs games in the first place. it's embarassing. also UC davis has some extra motivation other teams may not. personally i'd like to minimize the 1 in a million chance as much as possible if we are playing fcs teams.

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I imagine Sandy and Tedford feel differently than you. Would you prefer to go the Alabama route and play first-year program Georgia State? This is a win-win for both schools, with a big gate and smaller payout for Cal (as opposed to a buy game vs. an FBS team) and a big payday for UCD. The FCS games are here to stay whether you like it or not. And UCD is clearly a mediocre FCS team - if Cal has trouble, you've got bigger problems than the schedule

I expect Davis to make the game reasonably competitive for maybe the first quarter but they just don't have the size, speed or depth to keep it up. My biggest fear is Cal suffering a serious injury, ala Sacramento State, (Longshore) in 2005.

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I expect Davis to make the game reasonably competitive for maybe the first quarter but they just don't have the size, speed or depth to keep it up. My biggest fear is Cal suffering a serious injury, ala Sacramento State, (Longshore) in 2005.

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Longshore has only himself to blame for not 1 but 2 injuries that ruined his career and our chances in 2005 and 2007.

In 2005 he was ball watching and stood in the pocket flat footed while this fat Sac State guy rolled right into him. Season over. Enter the white Michael Vick.

In 2007, he was again caught ball watching, even after what happened in 2005 and that Oregon dude rolled right into him flat footed again. This is frustrating because I was hoping Nate would never do this again. Your head has to be on a swivel and you need to be on the balls of your feet until the play is completely over. With a healthy Nate, who knows how long the ride was going to last that season?

Oh well, what could have been.