Cats vs. Idaho Predictions

[84CatGrad]

Nobody, and I mean, nobody, comes into OUR house and pushes us around. Cats 31-17.

[Bobcatsinmso]

Spud fans are banging their drum that NO TEAM has scored more than 28 on the mighty vandals. That ends before 11:00 pm Saturday night.

MSU fighting Bobcats 33

Land locked vandals 22

I will enter, leave and enter the stadium as I damn well please....

[ilovethecats]

Cats win toss, defer, get ball and run a 14 play 75 yd drive eating up 8 mins of clock.
Problem solved.

Stop trying to deny peoples freedom to roam, open more gates to get the crowd in faster. That is the real problem.

Why do sky boxers get a dedicated entrance??????????????? While everyone on the west side languishes in line????????????

"Sky boxers" have their own entrance? I have a suite and I am unaware of this.

The one by the Ipf. Big sign, suite entrance only.

That's incredible I never noticed. However I get there early to stock it up and get food going but I had no clue there was an entrance exclusive to suite holders.

I’ll have to look at this. We go in that west entrance by the new facility and we don’t have a box. I’ve never noticed a sign. But I’ve normally been tailgating for quite some time and my give-a-s#!t factor about my surroundings probably isn’t very high

Ya I'll pay attention to this as well. I'm usually there early but on the occasion that I go out and tailgate and come back in with everyone, I just use the west entrance closest to the scoreboard. But a ton of people do. Then I just veer left and use the stairs there to get outside. I'll be pissed if I find out I wait in these long lines when I have some secret suite entrance I'm too dumb to know about! Wouldn't put it past me though.....

[Monymony]

This game reminds me of some cat gris matchups from recent years. Idaho has a very good d-line and can stuff the run and get to the qb. Their offense isn’t perfect but they got some talented playmakers that keep it challenging. A big key in those games was who could be the more physical team. We sure put it to them for a while but as of late we saw a much closer matchup between the lines. If our o-line can hold up against Idaho it will be a clear indicator that we are extremely good. But if we struggle to run it and have to try and air it out, we will get smoked. This year is by far the best defense/special teams since we went to the championship game and I think we 100% got the players and coaches to do it again.

[tetoncat]

Spud fans are banging their drum that NO TEAM has scored more than 28 on the mighty vandals. That ends before 11:00 pm Saturday night.

MSU fighting Bobcats 33

Land locked vandals 22

I will enter, leave and enter the stadium as I damn well please....

Cats have scored 103 more and given up 10 less with 2s and 3s playing large minutes. IDAHO has scored 14, 17, 41 (against a team Maine beat), 27, 26, and 23. Teens against FBS, 20s against decent FCS and 41 against a bad team. If Cats are Champ material Idaho should be low 20s at best.

[catatac]

This game reminds me of some cat gris matchups from recent years. Idaho has a very good d-line and can stuff the run and get to the qb. Their offense isn’t perfect but they got some talented playmakers that keep it challenging. A big key in those games was who could be the more physical team. We sure put it to them for a while but as of late we saw a much closer matchup between the lines. If our o-line can hold up against Idaho it will be a clear indicator that we are extremely good. But if we struggle to run it and have to try and air it out, we will get smoked. This year is by far the best defense/special teams since we went to the championship game and I think we 100% got the players and coaches to do it again.

Cats aren't getting "smoked" by ANY team in Bobcat Stadium, just FYI.

[DMMDCats]

Cats win toss, defer, get ball and run a 14 play 75 yd drive eating up 8 mins of clock.
Problem solved.

Stop trying to deny peoples freedom to roam, open more gates to get the crowd in faster. That is the real problem.

Why do sky boxers get a dedicated entrance??????????????? While everyone on the west side languishes in line????????????

"Sky boxers" have their own entrance? I have a suite and I am unaware of this.

The one by the Ipf. Big sign, suite entrance only.

That's incredible I never noticed. However I get there early to stock it up and get food going but I had no clue there was an entrance exclusive to suite holders.

I’ll have to look at this. We go in that west entrance by the new facility and we don’t have a box. I’ve never noticed a sign. But I’ve normally been tailgating for quite some time and my give-a-s#!t factor about my surroundings probably isn’t very high

Ya I'll pay attention to this as well. I'm usually there early but on the occasion that I go out and tailgate and come back in with everyone, I just use the west entrance closest to the scoreboard. But a ton of people do. Then I just veer left and use the stairs there to get outside. I'll be pissed if I find out I wait in these long lines when I have some secret suite entrance I'm too dumb to know about! Wouldn't put it past me though.....

I do the same. It really doesn’t pertain to me because I try to enter at 80 mins prior to kick off. Usually never a line.
I go in west side and walk around a couple times, watch pregame warmups and chat with folks. Then go to my lowly bench seats on east side, enduring the weather and hostile fans, a true slog just to get to a seat.
While others just ride the elevator.

Remember Frisco? A mile long line on tailgate side and all we had to do was go around to the other side, no lines.
DOH

“It happens”
Forrest Gump


Cats more
Vandals less

But the critics will say “whatever, they were beat up by all the GOOD teams they already played”.


Get out and support the VB team also.

[ilovethecats]

Cats win toss, defer, get ball and run a 14 play 75 yd drive eating up 8 mins of clock.
Problem solved.

Stop trying to deny peoples freedom to roam, open more gates to get the crowd in faster. That is the real problem.

Why do sky boxers get a dedicated entrance??????????????? While everyone on the west side languishes in line????????????

"Sky boxers" have their own entrance? I have a suite and I am unaware of this.

The one by the Ipf. Big sign, suite entrance only.

That's incredible I never noticed. However I get there early to stock it up and get food going but I had no clue there was an entrance exclusive to suite holders.

I’ll have to look at this. We go in that west entrance by the new facility and we don’t have a box. I’ve never noticed a sign. But I’ve normally been tailgating for quite some time and my give-a-s#!t factor about my surroundings probably isn’t very high

Ya I'll pay attention to this as well. I'm usually there early but on the occasion that I go out and tailgate and come back in with everyone, I just use the west entrance closest to the scoreboard. But a ton of people do. Then I just veer left and use the stairs there to get outside. I'll be pissed if I find out I wait in these long lines when I have some secret suite entrance I'm too dumb to know about! Wouldn't put it past me though.....

I do the same. It really doesn’t pertain to me because I try to enter at 80 mins prior to kick off. Usually never a line.
I go in west side and walk around a couple times, watch pregame warmups and chat with folks. Then go to my lowly bench seats on east side, enduring the weather and hostile fans, a true slog just to get to a seat.
While others just ride the elevator.

Remember Frisco? A mile long line on tailgate side and all we had to do was go around to the other side, no lines.
DOH

“It happens”
Forrest Gump


Cats more
Vandals less

But the critics will say “whatever, they were beat up by all the GOOD teams they already played”.


Get out and support the VB team also.

To be clear, I have seats outside as well and would take those 100 out of 100 times. The box is a nice little business perk and it has it's benefits. But come 10 minutes before kickoff I'm out there. And I'm even back down there before kickoff in the 3rd quarter.......

[DMMDCats]

To be clear, I have seats outside as well and would take those 100 out of 100 times. The box is a nice little business perk and it has it's benefits. But come 10 minutes before kickoff I'm out there. And I'm even back down there before kickoff in the 3rd quarter.......

Understood

The emojis indicating jest in my comment did not go through.


It was, I say, it was a joke. Not too funny but,,,, (European style)

[Helcat72]

Cats 34
Spudviks 24

[ilovethecats]

To be clear, I have seats outside as well and would take those 100 out of 100 times. The box is a nice little business perk and it has it's benefits. But come 10 minutes before kickoff I'm out there. And I'm even back down there before kickoff in the 3rd quarter.......

Understood

The emojis indicating jest in my comment did not go through.


It was, I say, it was a joke. Not too funny but,,,, (European style)

Oh no I knew you were joking. Just making it clear I'm in my seats and loud to start the 3rd quarter!

[canyoncat]

Huge home crowd, revenge game.

Cats 37
Vandals 14

[MSUBRONCO]

See you there! Time to start the 10 hour drive from Seattle

[wbtfg]

I think one of the things that gets lost in last years kicking woes was that Idaho absolutely dominated time of possession against us last year. They beat us 42-18 in time of possession. They were also 3/4 on 4th down to keep some of those drives going.

I think, if we can get more possessions and get our defense off the field, we will be fine. But if Idaho is able to grind it out on offense and keep Tommy and crew off the field, then we may be in trouble.

[BgCATfan]

I think one of the things that gets lost in last years kicking woes was that Idaho absolutely dominated time of possession against us last year. They beat us 42-18 in time of possession. They were also 3/4 on 4th down to keep some of those drives going.

I think, if we can get more possessions and get our defense off the field, we will be fine. But if Idaho is able to grind it out on offense and keep Tommy and crew off the field, then we may be in trouble.

They also got another critical one on a penalty.

[ilovethecats]

See you there! Time to start the 10 hour drive from Seattle

I love this!

Drive safe.

[CodyCat]

Transitioning this thread a little bit.

What do people think will be the keys to winning this game?

[cats2506]

I think one of the things that gets lost in last years kicking woes was that Idaho absolutely dominated time of possession against us last year. They beat us 42-18 in time of possession. They were also 3/4 on 4th down to keep some of those drives going.

I think, if we can get more possessions and get our defense off the field, we will be fine. But if Idaho is able to grind it out on offense and keep Tommy and crew off the field, then we may be in trouble.

Idaho's offense has been struggling to maintain drives this year. OL is pretty good but they have had to reshuffle due to injuries, they may have some guys back this week. RB are not at Woods level, good backs but woods was a beast. WR's they have also taken a step back, Hamper is good but nowhere close to Hatten. QB's everyone know they are on #2 & #3, #2 is a little inconsistent, and #3 is still pretty green in my opinion.

Big question in this game is our OL vs their Defensive front. UI has a solid defensive front and we feel we have a top level OL. Sain has come along well at center and seems to be making the right calls. We have Moore and Mastel back now. if we can make them load the box to stop our run game we will be good.

I think some are under estimation our defensive front. Our 1's have been very good, losing Schmidt hurts but I think Sharbono and Marsh are ready to take the next step. I think we can pressure/hurry these young QB into making some mistakes. People have been worrying about our secondary, and while they are banged up a bit I still think they are solid, as long as they don't get burned bad our defensive front can apply pressure.

My prediction is a close game in the first half, Cats dominate the second half and win by multiple scores

[BleedingBLue]

Transitioning this thread a little bit.

What do people think will be the keys to winning this game?

Containing Dwyer in the passing game. He is the go-to target and a fantastic WR. He's going to get some yards but limiting him will be a major key.

Getting pressure on the QB(s). Both Wagner and Josifek are super inaccurate under pressure.

Establishing the run. We can't go 3 and out and have drives end quickly, Idaho will keep the ball if we do.

[BelligerentBobcat]

Transitioning this thread a little bit.

What do people think will be the keys to winning this game?

Being in the stands to start the 3rd quarter.