Unless Sactown's D has improved dramatically since the Southern Oregon debacle, the Griz should be able to score early and often. For those of you who don't know, Southern Oregon is a very good Frontier Conference team, with the best QB in the NAIA and an ungodly pass offense which puts up video game numbers every week. However, it's still the Frontier, and the Raiders are still a team which lost to UM-Western at home this season. Yet, they went into Sactown and had six different leads on the Bees, and forced Sactown to go on a final minute march, score a TD with :03 left just to send the game into overtime. Sac finally prevailed 63-56. In that game, SOU put up 600 yards of offense, and not just passing. SOU throws 50-60 times a game on average, yet they ran for 233 on the Bees.
And before Kadeezy or any other Sac fan comes here and tries to spin it, I watched that entire game on the web. No, Sac didn't sit starters or play guys who haven't gotten to play since, I already compared the depth chart from that week and Sac's last game. Nine of the 11 starters on the D are the same and the other two are listed second. There was also no garbage time in that game as SOU either led, or trailed by no more than 10 at any point in the game. Luckily, Sactown has Garrett Safron because if they didn't they'd have a loss to a third-place team in the Frontier Conference right now. Three teams in the Frontier have given up less yards to SOU then Sactown did.
Bottom line, the Griz need to get over the EWU loss, the loss of Joey Counts and whoever else can't play this week, and go to Sac and FINALLY play well there for a change. If they actually play well, this game shouldn't be an issue. Then again, this is the Griz, so who the hell knows.