Cats @ UC-Davis Predictions

[MSU01]

Oh, I'm not calling you out for that prediction, I mean I think that is definitely a reasonable prediction, Cats winning by a couple scores - even playing them in their house. I was more referring to some of the other blowout scores I've seen predicted. I just don't think it's reasonable to expect that but to each his own!

It wasn't reasonable to expect MSU to win 38-7 against Idaho either but that's what happened. This team is clearly special this year, Davis is good enough that I'm also expecting a fairly close game on Saturday but I won't be all that surprised either if it's a blowout win for the Bobcats.

[91catAlum]

UCD coach very likable. Seems to know the game and his teams strengths well. He is even doubtful they can beat us. Game is on the road so this one is closer than average.
Cats 35
Mustaches 20

I HIGHLY doubt he thinks his team can’t beat the Cats. A presser is one thing, cameras off with the team is something totally different. There is 0% chance he says the same thing to his team. Stuff like that is tactic. Maybe, just maybe, if the favorite starts to believe their own headlines, then they are vulnerable. So why not let them hear again how good they are?

Ha ha, yep... zero chance he thinks they can't win, I promise you he has his team believing they are going to do whatever it takes to beat us 100%. I also think it's silly how many posters are predicting a blowout here. This is a damn good team the Cats are playing, in their house. I know their coach said he thinks the Cats might be the best team in the country but I'm wondering if USC is the best team in the country. Ya ya, I get it, but... the DSUs. Well NDSU completely squeaked out a win against a terrible team, and then SDSU got beat by said NDSU team so nobody is absolutely dominating and crushing it right now... except MSU and UCD.

The top 3 teams are beating the crap out of teams they should be. Davis has been doing that lately, but they haven't been doing it all year. Davis is a really good team, but it feels like there's a gap between 3 and 4.

I'm not sure what terrible team NDSU squeaked by. If you're referring to ETSU, I'd say the #21 ranked team isn't terrible. Their 3 FCS losses are all by 7 points or less. Two of those losses are to top 10 teams and another to a top 25 team.

Ndsu was down by 11 at ETSU with less than 3 minutes to go. They scored a TD, then got a super lucky bounce when their onside kick hit a defender in the chest, bounced off, and ndsu recovered, and then drove down and scored another TD to win.
Call it what you want but they got very very lucky to win that one.

[ilovethecats]

UCD coach very likable. Seems to know the game and his teams strengths well. He is even doubtful they can beat us. Game is on the road so this one is closer than average.
Cats 35
Mustaches 20

I HIGHLY doubt he thinks his team can’t beat the Cats. A presser is one thing, cameras off with the team is something totally different. There is 0% chance he says the same thing to his team. Stuff like that is tactic. Maybe, just maybe, if the favorite starts to believe their own headlines, then they are vulnerable. So why not let them hear again how good they are?

Ha ha, yep... zero chance he thinks they can't win, I promise you he has his team believing they are going to do whatever it takes to beat us 100%. I also think it's silly how many posters are predicting a blowout here. This is a damn good team the Cats are playing, in their house. I know their coach said he thinks the Cats might be the best team in the country but I'm wondering if USC is the best team in the country. Ya ya, I get it, but... the DSUs. Well NDSU completely squeaked out a win against a terrible team, and then SDSU got beat by said NDSU team so nobody is absolutely dominating and crushing it right now... except MSU and UCD.

I mean that’s fair I guess. I have no issue being a silly poster expecting us to win by a couple scores. As a cat fan I don’t know why I’d think differently? Everyone talks about the cat schedule and who we’ve beat. Who have they beat? The griz I guess is maybe there best win? Squeaking past Idaho?

They’re playing better football than they were when they beat PSU by a point. I don’t think they’re a bad team by any stretch. I just happen to think MSU is a much better, much more rounded, and much deeper team than Davis.

So I’m sticking by my silly post that I like the Cats to win by a couple touchdowns.

Oh, I'm not calling you out for that prediction, I mean I think that is definitely a reasonable prediction, Cats winning by a couple scores - even playing them in their house. I was more referring to some of the other blowout scores I've seen predicted. I just don't think it's reasonable to expect that but to each his own!

I get it. Guess it's all relative as to what people consider blowouts. In a game like this some may think of a 14-17 point win a blowout.

We're just getting to that point of the season. We just all see teams differently. I happen to think the Cats are on a different level. I can be proven wrong by that Saturday night and I can live with that. Kudos to Davis if they keep this closer than I think they will and definitely if they win. I recall getting told how crazy and even disrespectful I was being to William and Mary before we met in '22. Then we won by 7 touchdowns.

I'm not saying Davis is W&M. I just don't see them being the Dakotas either. I'll concede I thought they'd lose to the Griz so I've already been wrong on them once. But I'm also of the belief that we're much better than UM too.

If I'm wrong I'll have no issues coming back and saying Davis was better than I thought. Won't be the first time I've been wrong about sports. I just think the Cats are much better and I think they are very motivated to do something special this year. But I promise if/when we meet up with SDSU or NDSU I promise I won't be predicting a Cat beatdown!

[catatac]

Ha ha, no doubt! Sounds like we're pretty much on the same page. I went into Cat Griz 2022 thinking, no way the Cats absolutely crush them like they did in 2019... oops, we crushed them probably worse. Then last year heading into Cat Griz, I thought zero chance the Griz blow out the Cats... oops. This year heading to UCD I'm thinking, as I usually do when two great teams meet up, that it will be a close game. I'm hoping I'm wrong and Cats dominate obviously.

[BleedingBLue]

UCD coach very likable. Seems to know the game and his teams strengths well. He is even doubtful they can beat us. Game is on the road so this one is closer than average.
Cats 35
Mustaches 20

I HIGHLY doubt he thinks his team can’t beat the Cats. A presser is one thing, cameras off with the team is something totally different. There is 0% chance he says the same thing to his team. Stuff like that is tactic. Maybe, just maybe, if the favorite starts to believe their own headlines, then they are vulnerable. So why not let them hear again how good they are?

Ha ha, yep... zero chance he thinks they can't win, I promise you he has his team believing they are going to do whatever it takes to beat us 100%. I also think it's silly how many posters are predicting a blowout here. This is a damn good team the Cats are playing, in their house. I know their coach said he thinks the Cats might be the best team in the country but I'm wondering if USC is the best team in the country. Ya ya, I get it, but... the DSUs. Well NDSU completely squeaked out a win against a terrible team, and then SDSU got beat by said NDSU team so nobody is absolutely dominating and crushing it right now... except MSU and UCD.

The top 3 teams are beating the crap out of teams they should be. Davis has been doing that lately, but they haven't been doing it all year. Davis is a really good team, but it feels like there's a gap between 3 and 4.

I'm not sure what terrible team NDSU squeaked by. If you're referring to ETSU, I'd say the #21 ranked team isn't terrible. Their 3 FCS losses are all by 7 points or less. Two of those losses are to top 10 teams and another to a top 25 team.

Ndsu was down by 11 at ETSU with less than 3 minutes to go. They scored a TD, then got a super lucky bounce when their onside kick hit a defender in the chest, bounced off, and ndsu recovered, and then drove down and scored another TD to win.
Call it what you want but they got very very lucky to win that one.

Where did I say it wasn't a lucky win? Or that they didn't squeak it out? I called a close win against the now (and probably higher soon) #21 team in the country. ETSU was called a terrible team by the poster I responded to. They aren't.

[91catAlum]

UCD coach very likable. Seems to know the game and his teams strengths well. He is even doubtful they can beat us. Game is on the road so this one is closer than average.
Cats 35
Mustaches 20

I HIGHLY doubt he thinks his team can’t beat the Cats. A presser is one thing, cameras off with the team is something totally different. There is 0% chance he says the same thing to his team. Stuff like that is tactic. Maybe, just maybe, if the favorite starts to believe their own headlines, then they are vulnerable. So why not let them hear again how good they are?

Ha ha, yep... zero chance he thinks they can't win, I promise you he has his team believing they are going to do whatever it takes to beat us 100%. I also think it's silly how many posters are predicting a blowout here. This is a damn good team the Cats are playing, in their house. I know their coach said he thinks the Cats might be the best team in the country but I'm wondering if USC is the best team in the country. Ya ya, I get it, but... the DSUs. Well NDSU completely squeaked out a win against a terrible team, and then SDSU got beat by said NDSU team so nobody is absolutely dominating and crushing it right now... except MSU and UCD.

The top 3 teams are beating the crap out of teams they should be. Davis has been doing that lately, but they haven't been doing it all year. Davis is a really good team, but it feels like there's a gap between 3 and 4.

I'm not sure what terrible team NDSU squeaked by. If you're referring to ETSU, I'd say the #21 ranked team isn't terrible. Their 3 FCS losses are all by 7 points or less. Two of those losses are to top 10 teams and another to a top 25 team.

Ndsu was down by 11 at ETSU with less than 3 minutes to go. They scored a TD, then got a super lucky bounce when their onside kick hit a defender in the chest, bounced off, and ndsu recovered, and then drove down and scored another TD to win.
Call it what you want but they got very very lucky to win that one.

Where did I say it wasn't a lucky win? Or that they didn't squeak it out? I called a close win against the now (and probably higher soon) #21 team in the country. ETSU was called a terrible team by the poster I responded to. They aren't.

Ah OK I misunderstood your point. My bad.

[tdub]

UCD coach very likable. Seems to know the game and his teams strengths well. He is even doubtful they can beat us. Game is on the road so this one is closer than average.
Cats 35
Mustaches 20

I HIGHLY doubt he thinks his team can’t beat the Cats. A presser is one thing, cameras off with the team is something totally different. There is 0% chance he says the same thing to his team. Stuff like that is tactic. Maybe, just maybe, if the favorite starts to believe their own headlines, then they are vulnerable. So why not let them hear again how good they are?

Don’t put words in my mouth. Being doubtful you can do. something is much different than saying you can’t do something. I understand that there is such a thing as Coach-speak and most likely that’s what he was doing, but I bet he does tell us players they will have to play the best game of their season so far to stay with the Cats in this game!

Maybe my reading comprehension isn’t good, but what does “He is even doubtful they can win” mean then? Those are your words, not mine. My response (my opinion) is I believe he has ZERO doubt. Not sure how that’s putting words your mouth?

[TIrwin24]

Just checked the weather for Saturday in Davis; 50's with no chance of rain. Prediction: 350 rushing yards for the 'Cats and the W

[Bobcatsinmso]

Montana State Bobcats 33
NoCal erb farmers 22

[ClowderUp]

I predict Tim Plough and his mustache was an elite hire by UC Davis and will put this program in title contention and a top seed year after year. I predict a significant fundraising campaign with major stadium upgrades coming in the near future.

[nanacat]

My prediction is the 1st team plays all game, 2s and 3s stay on the bench. Hope I'm wrong.

[ilovethecats]

My prediction is the 1st team plays all game, 2s and 3s stay on the bench. Hope I'm wrong.

I wouldn't mind this either actually. A quality game leading up to the Brawl and the playoffs wouldn't be the worst thing.

[St George]

I predict Aggies in Agony.

[Brockg44]

I predict Tim Plough and his mustache was an elite hire by UC Davis and will put this program in title contention and a top seed year after year. I predict a significant fundraising campaign with major stadium upgrades coming in the near future.

Agreed.

[RICO CAT]

I predict Tim Plough and his mustache was an elite hire by UC Davis and will put this program in title contention and a top seed year after year. I predict a significant fundraising campaign with major stadium upgrades coming in the near future.

Agreed.

I predict he will be hired away by a FBS program when coaching carousel season starts….

[RICO CAT]

I predict Tim Plough and his mustache was an elite hire by UC Davis and will put this program in title contention and a top seed year after year. I predict a significant fundraising campaign with major stadium upgrades coming in the near future.

Agreed.

I predict he will be hired away by a FBS program when coaching carousel season starts….

[rivercat]

I predict Tim Plough and his mustache was an elite hire by UC Davis and will put this program in title contention and a top seed year after year. I predict a significant fundraising campaign with major stadium upgrades coming in the near future.

Agreed.

I predict he will be hired away by a FBS program when coaching carousel season starts….

I'd bet he hangs around Davis until they win it all or have had years of success. Plough was a QB for the Aggies 20 years ago. It's in his blood.

[ilovethecats]

I’m feeling better and better about my silly pick of cats beating Davis by 2-3 scores.

If you guys thought I was crazy last week, wait till you hear my prediction for the brawl!

[91catAlum]

I’m feeling better and better about my silly pick of cats beating Davis by 2-3 scores.

If you guys thought I was crazy last week, wait till you hear my prediction for the brawl!

Don't you hate when you post a little too early?

[91catAlum]

Cats 29-28
A late TD and 2 point conversion for the win.

Missed the score by 1.