BlueGoldAg, I think this one is even less realistic. Would the committee put three Big Sky teams in the same bracket? If they were thinking about geographic proximity, I could see it, but they also have Villanova possibly coming all the way from Philly to play Sac State, et al.

The Big Sky seems to be pretty dominant with over half of the byes. I'm guessing that after the next two games, that will drop.

If Im seeing things clearly (and many of you know that's not always the case), four FCS teams media ranked ahead of UC Davis lost today: North Dakota State, Eastern Washington, Southern Illinois and Southeast Louisiana. I wonder if that will vault the Aggies into the #4 rank, not that any of this matters going into the game against the Eagles. EWU has lost two straight including to 4-4 Weber State, I wonder if they've run into injury problems or something?

Hastings has "rushed" 11 times this season for a -8 yards. A problem with college stats is that they count a sack as a rush attempt. I am not sure how they figure it, because he has been sacked 6 times. I wonder if any forward progress is considered a rush, even if it results in negative yards?

Two big ones coming up. Ags control their own destiny.

But they took 7 minutes to do it.

Through only 3 quarters, Aggies have out-gained NAU 484 yards to 220.

One TD run doubles the Ags rushing total for the game.

I think scoring plays are reviewed, but no score, no review. I agree that Hawkins should have challenged. It looked like Thorpe had possession when his knee touched the ground.

I missed a chunk of the game. What happened to Martinez?

Commentators said the extra point would have been the Ags first lead. What game are they watching?

My bad, I thought the play by play guy identified Larison, but Crawford threw the pass.

Larison threw the pass. Wobbly but it worked.

Don't think it was a DPI, but leading with the helmet, spearing: personal foul should have been called.

Not a good way to start a game

I watched the Big West Men's Basketball Preview on ESPN+. They did very brief thumbnails on each team from bottom to top of the coaches poll, plus UCSD. They focused on the battle at the top where the coaches separated UCI and UCSB by only one vote. Had an interview with Amadou Sow. Why does it seem like he's been around forever? I guess he puts getting his degree over a shot at the NBA.

I can't recall if anyone has brought up the Sagarin ratings (http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm), but counting only FCS schools, it rates UC Davis #18 (127 overall). To Riveraggie's point, Sac State is #16 (124 overall), just ahead of U. of Arizona. Sagarin uses strength of schedule, as well as points, but also how teams have done in more recent games.

How does UC Davis drop a spot?

I totally missed this game, thinking the Ags opened with Utah State on Nov. 9. Anyone see it on streaming video?

MTBAggie, thanks for the correction. As a long-time 49er fan I knew that Garoppolo went to Eastern Illinois, so I must have had the Golden Eagles in my head. At least, I've learned how to spell his name. Still can't spell Juszczyk without looking it up and forget about Antenetekompo.