There we go!

Top-10 Mercer is getting dominated, and they were one of the Ags' other competitors for top 5

can’t even keep track of which offensive TDs were which anymore. Rex got a pick six early on though

Well, the committee hasn’t given us any credit for close losses to top teams before so I’m not going to lose sleep over this limp to the finish line

Befuddling

As usual, I can accept getting outrun or outmuscled by teams who don’t have to recruit to UC standards. But that means the Ags have to have commensurately better discipline and decision making. This hurts way worse than something like that blowout by Oregon State

Wait did I miss something, like did somebody just walk up to the Aggie Pack and start telling them what to do?

Maybe to answer my own question, but FYI Scott and Chris were part of the Fan Council this offseason so they at least did get input into gameday improvements and student fan experience, presumably including Aggie Pack cheers and MC'ing. It would be cool to hear their stories on the podcast -- when I was in school things like the D1 transition and Horseshoe controversy were known but didn't get much coverage when the team was less mainstream and social media was less ubiquitous.

I have to imagine that playing every game downtown is a stopgap and the mid to long term plan is that a PAC Sac State would eventually have a modern, somewhat bigger arena on campus then play marquee home games like Gonzaga or big noncon games at the G1C.

Kinda what USF currently does with the Chase Center

part of me understands the logic and it’s hard to argue that regardless of score the Ags did win the three games they were supposed to and one they weren’t… but…

Given the historical context of being left at the altar two years in a row, there’s a case that we really need to shoot for blowing out any team we can. The committee won’t give us credit for SoS, competitive games at the top, or head to head, so in my mind the most doable path to the playoffs is racking up the passing stats making the committee feel, maybe subconsciously, that a 7 or 8 win glass cannon Shredville is just a can’t-miss phenomenon.

I honestly thought that would be this team’s identity and was a bit surprised it wasn’t, though I do like the defensive prowess.

I have two different theories --

One is that the number is some formula like regular tickets sold or distributed and student tickets claimed or scanned. Meaning there is some sort of floor reflecting season/corporate/staff ticket counts that UCDH Stadium can't go lower than regardless of how few students or one-time fans show up, but there's a potential for spikes like for Orientation. In order for this theory to work there would have to have been some sort of ticket special or giveaways at the TAMC game (I wasn't able to make it) to make up for the lack of student attendance though.

The other theory is that maybe the Running of the First Year students weren't counted either due to the process of lining them up or an error. That could account for a few-thousand swing and put this weekend's attendance above 10K which also looked right to me.

https://x.com/jakemaier15/status/1840262649474625546

The Mayor of Shredville took note of Miles’ performance

Believe so. Though his SJSU win and Montana win in 2018 were comparable accomplishments IMO.

Maybe someone said this and I missed it, but I wonder if the controversial 4th down call was intended to just try to get Idaho to burn a timeout or jump? But then it backfired in that Plough also didn’t want to burn one and his signal caller in that formation wasn’t used to managing the game like that

I thought it started trickling down at halftime, but I estimate a first quarter crowd size that would at least be announced as above capacity based on previous games

Gotta be UCD’s best FCS win ever on paper, right?

Idaho gets a free timeout for targeting review

Another big stop when it mattered most

Pass to Lan I think

Run up the middle didn’t go anywhere but I understand the decision

Big stop by the D

Last twenty minutes of real time was I think what most us were hoping for from Plough returning. Blazing fast offense that overwhelms even a top FCS D, our D plays just good enough to to force low percentage plays of the opponent