Anything goes. Have at it, Beavos.
I’m not sure who wins this game. These teams seem pretty equally bad. It’s probably going to be really ugly football and one of them wins by 3. Since we have a terrible FG kicker, I’d probably lean SJSU.
Let’s make this both the game week thread and game thread since I’m late in getting it up.
You have to think Cal wins this game pretty easily, right? I’d be curious to hear the case for the Beavs.
34-17 Cal is my feeling here. Make your best case for the Beavs winning this one.
I’m going to be out most of the day so I’m putting up the game thread early.
I’m sticking with the Beavs based on prestige and reputation, but we legit might not be better than UNLV (does anyone know anything about UNLV? Even ChatGPT had no information).
Go Beavs?…(echoes into the void)…
I think those early games where we looked pretty decent were a bit of a mirage. I had this team as 3 or 4 wins and asked how people were claiming 9. I mean, I think my prediction is looking decent? We’ll probably finish somewhere in between with 6 or something like that. Should be UNLV and SJSU, but we probably lose all the other games. The trend is your friend, and the trend is pretty bad right now: we go into 2 OTs vs Colorado State, at home, and then lose to Nevada on the road.
UNLV? I mean who studies that team? Nobody. But based on prestige, reputation, etc, we should win this game. But that might be living in the past. When I look at who UNLV played this year and the results, they’re actually pretty good. Their best performance was probably vs Syracuse in a loss, but they have a couple okay wins. They look to be on par with the Beavs but on more of an uptrend.
I want to harp on this McCoy issue because I said from game 1 he wasn’t a good option. He’s now completed 63% of passes, which is solid, but only a 6.7 average and 3TDs to 5INTs. This can’t be the production at QB no matter how good a run game you have. Really a change should be made. I like Gulbranson and think he did well in his time vs legit P5 talent in the P12 at that time, but whatever, give someone else a shot no matter who it is to try to get more production from the most important position on the field. I don’t know why people downvote these types of comments. Who wants that measly production at QB? Why wouldn’t you want to improve it? Why wouldn’t you want to give someone else a shot? It makes no sense.
Anyway, this is somewhat of a toss up between two bad teams. UNLV has the clear QB edge, and that might win this game for them. But, I’ll stick with the Beavs in a close win at home. This is probably a bad call since the Beavs aren’t really designed to win close games (poor QB play, poor kicker, poor D, etc), but I think UNLV is close to their level and the Beavs being home gives them the slight edge. Should be another ugly game between two glorified HS teams.
Beavs 28, UNLV 24
People have gotten on me for my comments about McCoy, but we’re about to hit game 6, and he has 2 passing TDs and 1 INT and a measly 6.2 yard per pass average. I don’t really care if he can run for 213 yards over 5 games. 40 yards per game rushing is not worth having a guy with only 2TDs and who can’t really extend the field.
That said, I think Nevada is bad enough that it will work again.
I’m going Beavs in a close one: 21-20