Only consolation is Dons are starting to miss more shots and racking up a lot of fouls. Never say die

We were leading Kansas at around the 12 minute mark as I recall...

rough start

Edit: Actually I think it tracks it permanently. I just tried right now having not voted for several days and it said that it already counted my vote.

You can sometimes see a popup -- at least on mobile -- saying that you already voted. I think they stop it at least for the same day.

A few comments about the gameday experience that I didn't around to last night.

1. They oversold the high school band section and when I walked in they didn't have a seat. I was ready to get mad but the event staffer I talked to was super professional, called a deputy AD over, and he got me a new ticket. Apparently they tried to call everyone in that section, but it being election season I haven't been responding to unidentified calls for the last few weeks. I can't bring myself to be too critical because they handled it so smoothly.

2. Cutting off Jen Gross at the start of the interview was not a good look. Women's Basketball was the first of the revenue sports to achieve consistent dominance in the last few years and deserves every ounce of respect the department can muster. I'm not sure exactly what the best way to avoid that would have been, but surely there was a slightly larger timeslot available somewhere else in the schedule. (They did give WBB the spotlight eventually, but the team had to just awkwardly stand in a line on the field for another half quarter for the opportunity to present itself.)

3. Student showing was really bad. There were some yard signs about the game around campus and apparently they did a ticket distribution at the MU again, but whatever marketing they did wasn't enough. I will however give the marketing folks a little slack because I saw that there was some Resource Fair inconveniently on the quad at noon (with free food; you know how that draws students) and some freshmen told me there was a formal event in the evening that I think had to do with Greek life. The Greek students are probably a more active and spirited than the general population so that might have actually been a significant loss. (I'm assuming many decided to skip the game in order to not have to rush home and change and prepare.)

4. Agreed, the new MC is really good. Exudes energy and Aggie Pride. Also, it's a really good look to have the same face of the gameday experience as the Sacramento Kings; they put on a pretty good show over there from what I saw at a preseason game.

Trying to decide whether I want ISU to win for SoS purposes or PSU to win for conference championship purposes

TD CJ!

NDSU is up by ten now, but at least we know they're not unstoppable

not quite, they wore gold blue blue on the Idaho game

Also, New Hampshire wasn't terrible last time I saw them against SDSU. They had a solid game plan and were able to battle for a while, until they got outmatched by FBS speed. If it's the same coach as back then, he seemed like he knew what he was doing in terms of playing up to competition.

I've heard criticism of the JMU offense; they're supposedly not explosive like the Ags are. This might be a bigger hurdle for them than it would be for the Ags or another good spread team.

By my count there's a miniscule chance of clinching the conference this week if EWU, Weber, and Idaho State all lose. (North Dakota games count towards conference records right?)

I can imagine distributing 12000 tickets with with good student turnout but can't imagine letting that many in

He appeared against ISU in the wildcat package for one play that went nowhere.

I think that package has very little benefit these days compared to just running the ball out of the pistol or shotgun. Our backs are very good and one took a snap himself at Stanford, and CJ didn't demonstrate that he could pass effectively out of the wildcat.

Also, bakonydraco, who's kind of a legend over on the reddit college football forums, put together a great post on how many losses each team can afford, supposedly based on historical records of how many teams each conference gets into the playoff. His model says we can afford 2 losses to be guaranteed the playoff and 1 loss to get a bye. We're the second-most secure team after NDSU right now because we're at 7 wins and #1 in conference.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fcs/comments/9s7ruw/fcs_playoff_picture_week_10/

I took to the FCS Fans Nation Facebook group and they say that the higher seed always gets to host; only the first unseeded round is based on bidding. (Apparently different from NAIA.) So we're in really good position to get at least 1 home game, and could get up to 3 if we win out and nab the #2 seed

It's moments like these where I begin to suspect that we legitimately have the best coach in the FCS, or at least the most desirable one for our particular situation. Turning a 21-3 deficit into a 49-21 blowout also leads me a bit towards that conclusion

That is an NAIA manual referring (apparently) to their football playoff. Confusingly, it's entirely separate from our NCAA FCS tournament.