They've had several color commentators so far this season: Tom Abatemarco, Darius Graham and Sandy Simpson but we haven't see Bob Williams though. I'm not sure if they have a permanent guy right now.

One area that hopefully improves for the Aggies is their 3 point shooting. The Ags are putting up an average of 30.6 three point shots per game but they are only making an average of 7.7 of them per game for 33.2% shooting from 3.

The railing on the student side does not look good on TV but, like you, I don't notice it from our seats on the west side of the court. The ESPN+ cameras are aimed at an angle down to the court from above the east side seats and and it makes the railing look like it is blocking the view of the fans in the lower seats and it is very noticeable at the bottom of the TV screen spanning the length of the court. It looks like they need it there because there is now quite a drop-off between the bottom aisle and the level of the court but it is an eye sore on TV.

The new Aggie Pack announcer's voice is awesome and he did a great job last night even with the small crowd. We need him at the Aggie football games since Darius is retiring.

Here is the list of all 25 finalists:

https://theanalyst.com/articles/jerry-rice-award-freshman-finalists-fcs-football-2025

The early signing period is December 3-5. It's going to be a very busy time for the Aggie coaches trying to be in contact with our recruits and preparing for the playoffs at the same time.

The regular signing period starts February 4th. The Transfer Portal opens on January 2nd.

I don't think traffic should be much of an issue since it's Thanksgiving week and the crowd will most likely be very small unfortunately.

From Bob Dunning's Substack column:

If the Aggies prevail in their first game, they will almost certainly be headed to Fargo to take on the defending champion Bison either Dec. 12 or 13.

That matchup, of course, depends on the Bison winning their first game as well against the winner of this Saturday’s game between No. 13 Southeastern Louisiana and Illinois State.

NDSU will no doubt be heavily favored in its first game.

“Who would you rather play than the No. 1 seed?,” Plough asked.

“It would be a great challenge to go to the home of the defending champions, but a great opportunity too.”

Plough was especially happy to have a week off to prepare for the playoffs.

“Any time you can get a bye week at this time of year when you’re pretty banged up is a good thing,” said the Aggie coach.

“I’m especially happy that our guys will now get to go home for Thanksgiving, which wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. We’ll practice through Wednesday this week and then they can go home and we won’t practice again until Sunday.”

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/uc-davis-receives-a-surprise-no-8?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=179776202&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I know!!

I remember Volek saying that Sac would soon be the Florida State of the west and they would no longer be playing teams like Davis. Sac has a history of making bold statements about becoming the next great football program in the west and this year was no exception

Could Plough's name come up for the Cal job now? He was an assistant coach there so he's knows the program.

It's turning out to be a banner year Aggie Athletics and the men's and women's basketball teams look like they could have very good seasons also.

Awesome! Really proud of this team and happy for them after all they've been through this season. Aggie Pride at its best!

...and Sac has now entered a barren space of FCS independent/FBS wannabe..

He made sure that being ahead of Mercer when the game was stopped was not forgotten

I think SOS and being in the Big Sky played a big role in this decision.

SOS must have played a big role in this as well as being ahead of Mercer in the No Conterst game...

NCAA won't allow free tickets to students. It's lost revenue to them. Anyone buying tickets to the game can make donations of $5 for each student ticket so that those tickets can then be given out to students.

Just got our tickets and purchased and some $5 donation tickets for students also. Hope we get a good crowd.

It's gonna be a really, big, enthusiastic crowd today. I sure hope we're just sitting surrounded by Aggie fans and not mixed in with a bunch of Sac fans!

We're leaving earlier than usual from Sacramento today. We typically get on westbound 50 at 5th street but the all the highway construction and lane changes around the West Sac exit over the bridge have made it a real bottleneck of stop and go traffic. We'll go over the Tower Bridge today and then through West Sac and get on 50 near the Causeway but that may be heavily traveled too. Hope it isn't too backed up.