Not just us blowing home games. South Dakota State lost 24-12 at home to a now 3-6 Indiana St team.

Sac could definitely get a home game if they win out. 3 of their 4 losses were to FBS, South Dakota St and Montana. Would have a good win over us too.

It certainly makes things harder. Not going to take the time to run through all the teams, but if they beat Sac and Idaho, they'll be in consideration at 8-3. At that point it comes down to style points. Beat those two teams by 2 TDs each and have a respectable showing at Montana St and you get a seed. Squeak by Idaho and Sac and lose to Montana St by 24, you're in the 9-16 range.

Finish 8-3 in the Big Sky, regardless of the exact scores of the games, and we'll get a home game. Might not be a bye though. 7-4, there's likely not a home game (unless it's something like a close loss to MSU, a close loss to either Sac/Idaho and an easy win).

Can't ask for much more from the offense. 3 turnovers I guess (or 2 during the normal course of the game when they're not forcing it downfield). But still had 567 yards and 36 points. That should be enough.

That hurts. So realistically we have to win 2 of the last 3 to make the playoffs. Could get in at 7-4 but that's iffy and won't have a home game. That means beating Idaho and Sac since I'm not too optimistic about at Montana St.

Not quite yet. They'd still have a long FG from here.

1 more stop. Come on, defense.

A 23 yard run on 2nd and 18 isn't great.

Even the UC Davis gamecast stopped updating. Lame.

Big stop. Now get some points.

That penalty hurts. I would have liked our chances on 4th and goal from the 3 to get a TD.

It would appear the defense is having a tough day. Offense showing out like usual though. Hopefully we can get a couple stops and pull this one out.

Yeah, that's definitely weird to see.

He's one win away from getting a World Series ring as he's the hitting coach for the Blue Jays. Heard his name mentioned on a podcast just now and had to look up if it was the same guy. Pretty awesome.

Well they did lose twice this year already so I think we knew that already. LOL.

Montana 45 Sac State 35 — Pacifico2

That's a pretty good prediction there.

Good might be a stretch. But they're 5-2 now, which matches their win total from the last two years, and they still play a pair of 2-4 teams plus a 3-3 team. Should get a bowl since any team who gets to 6 wins gets a bowl, and if they can win 7 games, it will be their most since 2019.

When you draw 26K to every home game, you don't have to play an FBS game (or two, like some FCS teams do) and instead can make your money scheduling an extra home game in the non-conference.

I was curious who had the No. 1 SOS and it's Portland St. Easy to see why. They played BYU (currently 6-0, No. 15 in FBS) and Hawaii (5-2) as well as No. 3 Tarleton St, No. 11 North Dakota and No. 21 Northern Arizona.

I'll preface this by saying I've never been offered mid-6 or 7 figures to do a job and very likely never will.

That being said, money isn't everything. Yes, $1.2-$2M (the reported range of the OSU coach's salary) is a lot more than the $300-400K that Plough is making. But you can still live quite comfortably on $300K per year. And if it's a job you really like, it's easier to pass up that extra money. It's not like a situation where you're living paycheck to paycheck and get the chance to quadruple your salary.

Most of these coaches are going to jump at the chance to challenge themselves at a bigger program, especially the younger guys like Plough is. But there are always exceptions to the rule and I'm sure there are other guys who could go to bigger programs but choose to stay where they are because they like the lifestyle. And maybe the stress of being the head coach of even a school like Oregon St, which itself is a much different animal from the top programs in the nation, isn't worth the extra money.