I wonder if they're not worried about us going 40ish yards in that little time for a FG attempt. Or they trust the defense and it's a 4th and short.

Man I was a little worried we were going to snap it before the 2. Any why didn't Montana take a timeout?

Huge pick. At the very least, lets get a first down or two and get into halftime with the lead.

Another 15000 fans wouldn't hurt either.

I'll take the 3.

Promising drive killed by penalties. We're not even going to get a FG attempt at this point.

I'm fine with that first quarter. It's tied. Defense overall played wall and the offense at least showed the ability to move the ball. We can play with them. Just need to execute a bit better on offense.

Offense has to find a way to deal with the noise.

Not quite as bad of a drop but Montana just paid us back for how our first drive ended.

Huge quick answer there.

Should be up now. At least for me it is.

Finally on TV. The ESPN stream (at least for me) still says "Your event is about to begin".

UCF-Ariz St is almost done. Arizona St up 35-31 with the ball, 1st and 10 with less than 2 minutes and UCF has only 1 timeout.

At least according to the live stats I just brought up through the UCD website, it hasn't started yet. The live stream on ESPN.com says it hasn't started yet either.

Any time you can add a team to your FBS conference that has made four playoff appearances in 31 FCS seasons - with three of those being with one coach who is no longer there and the fourth being the year after he left - you just have to do it.

Yep, that's a big boost for us no matter how we finish. It's either...

-another win over a highly ranked team which could help us over one of the MVFC teams if we finish 11-1 or 10-2
-or if we go 9-3, that H2H win could be the tiebreaker for us over a 9-3 Idaho team if it comes down to us and them for the 8 seed.

I don't want to say that Portland State is even a decent, but in terms of quality there seems to be a big difference in quality between them and a team like Northern Colorado. Close against us, close against Idaho. We still should have beat them by more, but they're not awful.

Indiana is an interesting case. They haven't played anyone good yet - though they'll get their shot in 2 weeks against Ohio St - but to their credit they've been putting it on teams.

FWIW, only EWU and Northern Colorado have played all three of UCD, Mont St, Mont this year.

Mont St 42. EWU 28
Mont 52, EWU 49
UCD 48, EWU 38

Mont St 55, UNC 14
Mont 24, UNC 0
UCD 59, UNC 7

We'd likely move behind Montana, unless we lost a very close game by a FG or so. But how far depends on the margin of loss. Lose by 30 and we'll move down a few spots. Lose by 3 and maybe they jump Montana to 4 and move us to 5. As you pointed out, South Dakota didn't drop after they lost at South Dakota St by 3 in OT.