They must have considered Mercer a win.

“9-2” FCS at #8 makes sense.

Running up the gut = the hubris I was talking about.

I watched more Sac football than I care to admit this season (out of morbid curiosity more than anything). They had season-long success right up the middle- seemingly a shoestring away from busting one open every play. They chunked 8-10-12 yarders every play vs low tier BSC teams all year.
They were understandably very confident in their elite running backs- and even more so today with Curtis back.

Don't get me wrong, I think the coaching from Marion and OC was bad all game / season. And the fact they had to rely solely on what I mentioned above shows that.

I've never watched a team more confident in their running game. Borderline hubris (I understand their QB doesn't throw well and that's part of it, but they also benched the guy who can throw well to go all-in on the run game).
100% commitment to running it going into their final drive with 5:28 left. No urgency, just complete confidence.......until it got down to around a minute and they got off schedule. Then came the panic.

Just re-watched the 4th quarter on TV. (hard to see from the North endzone).

What an epic defensive bend-don't-break defensive effort on a grinding 5+ minute drive to close it out.
A classic.

Correct. I was referring to the 12-game stats.

Herder has Davis as a #15. He's been "down" on Davis all season, so we'll see. I feel like #11-#14 is more realistic.


https://herosports.com/fcs-football-2025-playoff-predictions-final-bzbz/

Great game by the O-line as well in pass protection.

Sac state lead the conference by far with 38 sacks
30 pass attempts by Pinnick, 1 sack. I was in the endzone, so hard to see a lot, but he definitely had a second or two longer to make a throw than last week. It was noticeable.

Overall, this felt like another game the Ags should have won by more points, but every Causeway is a dogfight.

He turned out to be quite the whiner, didn't he? That has to b disappointing for Sac fans.

Catching up on playoff stuff....

Since NAU sh*t the bed at Weber (got beat BAD), only 3 Big Sky teams in??

Disappointing to have NAU finish 7-5

AST needs to get Jdur and friends all the tickets they need!

his 4th down throws were embarrassing.

Wild stat:
Sac was 3 of 9 passing for 17 yards and an INT. This is a QB who’s had several 300 yard games. Aggie secondary took the passing game away completely.

Sac’s ground game was punishing. So much speed in the backfield, and big dudes up front. Nearly impossible to stop at times.

Monumental effort by the Aggie defense to hang-in over 65 attempts and 35 minutes on the field.

We walked and stopped for lunch.

Couldn’t get service in the stadium at all. I have a lot of catching up to do! Here are some pics from early in the game.

Letting them hang around. We tend to do this.

Packed house +
Looks like 15,000-17,000 to me.

Ran into the Magic Man downtown. Great to see the football alums fired up.

Lots of Aggies at the MTZ Amtrak station. Love to see it.

OL/DL & LB play has got to be MEAN and NASTY today. Go big Ags!!!

We are Amtrak'n it! So cool to have a station in town.
(Our trip is only 46 minutes though!)