More Aggie Misery

10/17 Review

Montana 41 Eastern Washington 34

The Grizzlies broke a deadlock in the 4th quarter when Chase Reynolds plunged over the goal line.  Now, when you can put up 41 points and almost 500 yards of total offense when you do not have a 100 yard rusher nor a 300 yard quarterback, you have too many weapons on offense.  The Grizzlies don't seem to have a dominant defense, however.  Three of thier six wins have been close shaves.

Montana State 31 South Dakota 24

The Bobcats needed an extra period to get past the Coyotes.  They forced overtime with a field goal with 38 seconds on the clock.  Mark Iddins did not start today, Cody Kempt took his place and was poised for most of the game...at least he did not throw any interceptions.  Captain Obvious says, no turnovers = win.

Weber State 49 Sacramento State 10

I do not know what Tim Toone's major is, but it he has been the Orkin man in his career at Weber State.  He has killed the Hornets in his three appearances against them.  He almost single handledly exterminated the Hornets on Saturday.  He had 8 receptions for 154 yards and 3 touchdowns, plus a 95 yard touchdown punt retrun.  This game was over by halftime.  No turnovers for the 'Cats today.

Northern Arizona 44 Portland State 23

The Lumberjacks went to Portland and shut down the Vikings.  Again, NAU goes on the road and the defense comes through.  They had a comfortable 30-9 lead at the end of three quarters.  The two Portland State touchdowns came after the game was out of reach.  Bad news, next week NAU returns to Flagstaff.  Jerry Glanville must be on the hot seat now.

Northern Colorado 30 Idaho 7

The Bears dominated the Bengals for four quarters.  The Bengals do not have a realistic shot at avoiding a winless season until the last game of the season when PSU comes to Holt Arena.  John Zamberlin is also on the hot seat?  He just signed a contract extention for two more seasons.  The Bengals are going in the wrong direction, but the coach gets an extention.  I want his agent working for me.

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Big Sky
Offensive Player of the Week: Weber State WR/KR Tim Toone
Defensive Team of the Week: Northern Arizona
Game of the Week: Montana 41 Eastern Washington 34

Power Rankings

1.  Montana
2.  Weber State
3.  Eastern Washington
4.  Northern Arizona
5.  Montana State
6.  Portland State
7.  Sacramento State
8.  Northern Colorado
9.  Idaho State

WAC

Boise State 28 Tulsa 21

If you are Florida or from a Big-6 conference, you can stay in the title hunt with a close shave to an unranked team.  But if you are Boise State, a 7-point win at Tulsa is like a loss.  This is not fair, but it is the way it works.  College football is a beauty contest at the BCS level, and Boise State just became Carrie Prejean.

BSU has shown that they are volnerable and they have a couple of teams on the schedule that could knock them down.  Never count out Hawaii in Oahu.  Louisiana Tech has a bruising combination of a tough defense and a power running game.  Idaho, already bowl eligibible has nothing to loose by gearing up for their in-state rival.  And you can never count out Nevada, who seems to have turned the corner.

Nevada 35 Utah State 32

Utah State was ahead 21 -7 at one point in the second quarter and then were outscored 28-11 the rest of the way.  When you have a running back like Robert Turbin, he needs to get more than 12 touches in a game.  (5 of those touches were passes.)   After a poor start, Nevada has evened their record and are now 3-3.  You can never count out a team coached by Chris Ault.

Note: just over 15,000 in attendence today.  Fall break, start of rifle hunting season, not so bad.  Average attendance so far is right around 16,600.  USU needs to average about 14,000 per game for the rest of the season to put FCS demotion rumors to rest.  That is what Gary Anderson needs to concentrate on for the remainder of the season.  Give people a reason to come out an pull for the Aggies.

Louisiana Tech 45 New Mexico State 7

The lack of running game hurt the NMSU Aggies more than I thought that it would this game.  Total, complete and utter domination by the Bulldogs over Dwayne Walker's team.

Idaho 35 Hawaii 23

The Vandals out lasted the one-dimensional Warriors to become bowl eligible for the first time in 11 years and for only the second time since Idaho escaped the Big Sky conference.  Hawaii out-gained Idaho, but the Vandals had a lower-risk game plan that put more points on the board.

Fresno State 42 San Jose State 21

Fresno State proves that they can spot their opponent 14 points and win.  Well, that game plan did not work against Boise State, or Wisconsin or Cincinnati but hey it finally worked against San Jose State!  All sarcasm aside, these Bulldogs are finally putting it together and winning some games.  Ryan Matthews pounded the Spartan defense for over 200 yards.

Offensive Player of the Week: Fresno State RB Ryan Matthews.
Defensive team of the Week: Louisiana Tech
Game of the Week: Nevada 35 Utah State 32

Power Rankings

1. Boise State
2. Fresno State
3. Idaho
4. Louisiana Tech
5. Nevada
6. Hawaii
7. New Mexico State
8. Utah State
9. San Jose State

Mountain West

Air Force 10 Wyoming 0

Air Force showed Austyn Carta-Samuels what it means to play a real defense.  The Cowboys were shut down and shut out by the Falcon defense.  Air Force won the game by having 1 pass completion on 5 attempts for two yards.  Well, they didn't need to be spectacular today.

TCU 44 Colorado State 6

TCU had nearly 300 yards rushing, but no single rusher was over 80 yards.  All I can say is wow!  Now, they have to take on BYU who does have a decent run defense.  I have to wonder what happened to all of Colorado State's offensive weapons.  Is TCU's defense that good or is Colorado State's offense lost it's mojo?  Perhaps it is a little of both.

BYU 38 San Diego State 28

Like I said, BYU has a decent run defense, but San Diego State did not care.  In retrospect, the Aztecs deserve credit for coming up with a game plan to take advantage of the Cougars weaknesses on defense, but are not deep enough to pull it off.  BYU could have won by another score or two.  The play the ended the first half will be talked about for a long time and become part of Cougar folklore.  BYU had a 17-minute advantage in time of possession.  Usually in a track-meet game, the time that wins the time of possession advantage, wins.

Utah  35 UNLV 15

Just when you thought that this game would have an exciting finish, the Ute defense comes through and stops UNLV on fourth down twice in the fourth quarter.  The Mike Sanford watch is on, but again, I think that UNLV will wait until the end of the season to give him the boot.

Offensive Player of the Week: BYU QB Max Hall
Defensive team of the Week: TCU
Game of the week: BYU 38 San Diego State 28

Power Rankings

1. TCU
2. BYU
3. Utah
4. Air Force
5. Wyoming
6. Colorado State
7. San Diego State
8. UNLV
9. New Mexico

One last note: weather forecast for Provo this Saturday: Mid-50s and partly cloudy.  Perfect weather for football.