HUGE 3 by Pepper to tie it up

And we're going to OT!

Our defense has been better than expected given the circumstances, I'll give you that, but that partly reflects how low our expectations are now.

We gave up 35 points to San Diego, 36 to Weber (which despite being great isn't known for their offense), and 38 to UND. While the D played better games elsewhere on the schedule, I would say the unit is inconsistent at best.

San Diego State I mean. They/we can get a student section 2-3 times the size of the Aggie pack to the stadium that's 15 minutes away from campus easily, generally to play obscure G5 and FCS teams. And have several hundred students tailgating for hours before the game. Again, I only think a microcosm of that is reasonable at Davis but we're not even there yet.

I'm coming from two years at SDSU which definitely did not have this apathy. Sure, I can accept that the culture is different there but my friends at Cal seem to have much more school spirit, and despite being P12 they're not really any more relevant than UCD.

I honestly believe we can get to the point where we can fill a single Aggie Pack section and get them active the whole game. However, it will take a lot of vision and effort but I think it will pay dividends.

Ok the good:
* Not bad run D most of the time
* Good turnout on the West side as has been the case for at least a year now
* MUCH improvement on the penalties side. I think we got two flags the whole game?
* Ref's mic kinda worked

The bad:
* Yet another team that is just faster and tougher. Are the academic requirements really that strict for recruiting that we can never put better athletes on the field than a school with 1/5 our endowment that has blizzards?
* Tackling apparently is not taught at UCD and has not been since I was a sophomore at least
* Utterly vanilla, ineffectual offense. Where was the sweep? The double pass? The wildcat? A handoff to any TE or FB just to get that one or two yards when we needed it?
* Aggie Pack sounded like a library. I didn't see anything resembling cheers, noise on third downs, Aggie first down celebrations, you name it. Does the Aggie pack leadership even exist anymore?

Hawkins' job shouldn't be in question because it's early and he's done so much to raise the program's profile but both O and D coordinators need to be on the hot seat IMO. Same with whoever's in charge of marketing to students

My day was just filled with Aggie teams clutching defeat from the jaws of victory in front of empty student sections. Really brings me back to 2014

14-10 Cats at the half. Really was interested to see MSU's hurry up FG attempt to end the half, but obviously glad it didn't work

Urgh Cats convert a massive 70 yd TD off a wildcat snap. Their #10 can outrun everyone on our defense

that's more like it. Good run by UG just slicing them straight through the middle

Jake just set the school passing record on the last play of the quarter. They had a nice video congratulating him from JT OSullivan ready

I'm not sure I've ever seen an Aggie squad that was even average at tackling. Maybe the 2011 Biggs team?

0-7 MSU

I don't understand why coaches don't tell their players to go all in on a steal and if not, just foul with five seconds left in that situation. Your chances of winning are much higher if the other team has to get their points one at a time at the line, AND there's still time left to run a play even if they hit both.

Devastating.

Ags up by 9 with 37-28 as the halftime score. Toole on fire with 16.

Aggies are only playing decently, not great (some missed FTs and turnovers that should be cleaned up) but still look pretty impressive

Dang, that's one heck of a promotion. I came to this thread to offer up my extra ticket but I see that's wholly unnecessary.

61-58 Fresno with Aggie ball! 3:41 left

I'm starting to suspect everyone paying attention is already watching though...

61-56 fresno with Aggies at the line. Much better offense this quarter

Down 10 at the end of the 3rd. Fresno's dominance continues

Doesn't help when our average possession seems to be 5 seconds before throwing the ball away.

Fresno leads 28-25 at the half on a massive run. Aggies were forcing shots and just had some bad luck getting stuff to drop.