For what it's worth, the Honolulu newspaper did not have a single article or even a score on any of the FCS games. I don't know if that illustrates the relative importance of the FCS nationally or a provincial ignorance of the paper.

Games of Dec. 14:

Oregon State (7-2) 67 , UC Irvine (away, 9-1/1-0) 55
UC Santa Barbara (home, 7-3/0-2) 86, Green Bay (2-10) 66
Hawai`i (home, 6-3/0-1) 71, Texas A&M Corpus Christi (6-5) 62
San Jose State (6-6) 107, Cal Poly (away, 5-7/0-2) 100 (OT)

It shouldn't have been this close but for the sluggish start. It was weird the way that Holt came out looking like a real force then tailed off pretty badly. Ags biggest problem was going 4 of 15 from 3.

Looks like the Ags have settled down and the Hornets are just down.

Looking like a game of runs: 11-8-8-9 so far. I like Sac State's TV guy Steve McElroy. He's both glib and aka mai. He must be familiar to you long term followers of Aggie sports on the radio.

Ugh! Holt is as good as advertised, but the Ags are looking like the long break has made them rusty. Only problem with that is that the Hornets also had a long break.

I think what makes today's game so depressing was that we had the ability to win against a very good team on the road and there were so many "what ifs" and not just the interceptions and the injury to Lan. It is not dissimilar to the loss 40 years ago (which I was not able to see) even though that was one big "what if." It's one thing to play poorly or just get beaten by a far superior team, but we were absolutely snake-beaten in a way that none of us could have expected. If you had told me that we would out-gain the Coyotes 433-378, make 32 of 3 fourth downs, gotten 3 turnovers and hold their best running back to 83 yards, I wold have said we would have won. But then...

Looks like we're losing a lot of talent on both offense and defense, even without transfers. Seems to me that if the returning players are looking for more playing time, they should stay in Davis with so many starters and key back-ups leaving. I counted 18, roughly, but Hastings, Larison, Williams, Tompkins, Hutton, Kennedy, Baines, Toki, etc. sheesh.

Didn't that game have a back-up QB because Ken O'Brien got hurt the game before?

I know but I have a grudge against the Bison.

I'll be hoping South Dakota State wins it all. They're the one team that didn't beat us this year.

This game should have been on ESPN U or ABC, especially seeing how two of the other games were blowouts. Few games could have matched this one for excitement even if we came up short.

I echo others' sentiments about Hastings. It is very sad that after a great career at UC Davis, his last game was such a disaster. I feel for the guy and I hope he will look back over his career as one to be proud of and not dwell on this one, an anomaly.

If only Larison had not gotten hurt. Their guy killed us. Our guy was sidelined.

As crazy as this game has been, no denying it's exciting. D now needs to step up.

Good time out

I think David Meyer is out. He wasn't in the last series.

I know it's almost Christmas, but why are the Aggies giving the Coyotes so many gifts?

Is this a tragedy or a comedy?

Statistically, this game is pretty even. 221 total yards for USD, 208 for us. Similar times of possession, etc. We can play with these guys if we avoid the mental errors on both offense and defense.