SDSU also has an incredibly slow and conservative offense. Didn't get to watch that game because I was at the Cal game, but they were probably running on 3rd and 10s.

I think Weber has legit defense, don't get me wrong, but SDSU is the kind of team you can hold scoreless for quarters at a time so long as you stack the box and break up the occasional pass. They also justifiably trust their defense a lot and don't mind avoiding risks. It wouldn't be weird to me if Sac scored more against Weber by actually taking risks.

Season-wise we're fine. Even if the offense loses a little from last year we can still win almost any game in which our D holds the opponent to 27 and takes the ball away with regularity.

It's disappointing that we didn't actually win that but we had some tough breaks and the playbook was pretty conservative.

Aaaand OT!! UNI is repping the fcs in a big way, and it's even a national broadcast

Watching UNI @ #21 Iowa State now. It's weird watching a ranked P5 struggle harder against UNI than the Aggies did

His first season we won something like 21-3. SUU couldn't stop the power run so they were helpless against the Gould offense if I remember right.

As I recall, yes. We also had a TD called back on a penalty (might have been a defensive play though, I forget) and we went for it and failed to convert instead of kicking a FG at one point. I think it's fair to say that we may have been able to score about 20 in that game if things went slightly differently.

Idk, every time I hear some Cal say "THE University of California" that definitely amps up my desire to beat them.

Also, I don't know if this was always a thing before the ultra-competitive current era of college admissions, but my Cal-going high school classmates definitely looked down on me for going to Davis. That kind of thing puts it beyond a friendly rivalry in my opinion, at least for the Ags.

I'm predicting 9-3 with losses to Cal, NDSU, and MSU. (You could easily swap Weber in for the last one though).

I do think there's a scenario in which we go undefeated. (Run game improvesdue to experience at the line and RB, defense goes from average to above average). But we're going to be underdogs in two games for sure and I imagine the odds may catch up to us somewhere along the line in conference play.

I have no clue how this will turn out, but what I am pretty sure of is that if NDSU were playing a so so team from the worst P5 conference, the bison would expect to win. So that's what I'm coming down on this game -- FCS or not, if we want to reach our potential as a program we'll eventually need to treat games like this as winnable.

Wellman's restrooms were below average, same for Rosseler (spelling?) And pretty much any older class building. The public ones tend to be in decent shape, sure, but overall my average grade for campus bathrooms was about a B.

I can't recall how bad the paint was but some of the Surge buildings and other prefab buildings were in pretty bad shape. I agree with the general assessment that some of the newer buildings are really nice but there are a lot that are way past their primes.

same, with free cancellation though. I'm not that bold

Aggies will be practicing at Colfax High for 3 days in August

Thought this was interesting, as Colfax is my alma mater but I never expected it to get attention from a D1 school. TE Garren O'Keefe is a Colfax grad, and there's been some other D1 recruits from that neck of the woods (UCLA star DE Eddie Vanderdoes played against Colfax when I was there).

This might also be a way to get some elevation training in.

checked the Cal website and it looks like the cheapest adult ticket anyway is $36 or so. Basically tailgate + ticket is a wash either way for CAAA/TA members, but in order to sit in the Davis section you have to get both. Anybody going to the tailgate will get a ticket anyway so I can kind of see why they did it this way

Not sure about Cal but UCLA was not free when I was briefly there. Students had to buy a pass that basically functioned as a combo FB/MBB season ticket. I forget if bus rides to the rose bowl were included or not in that.

Davis is free but it seems like ICA has been gradually moving to a distributed ticket model rather than students just showing ID cards for big games. Makes sense as the spectator sport teams are on the rise and Aggie stadium is starting to approach capacity

I read in a recent UC Davis magazine, I think, that the field will be done this fall. Makes sense, there are already locker rooms nearby and it's relatively simple compared to the building.

And Boise. And obligatory plug for SDSU, which while unranked at the time had a Heisman contender and beat Stanford two weeks later.

Good point. The only reason I'd think they would do that is if they somehow wanted to do something for fans in a slightly different region of LA. Not unlike playing the MBB Causeway game in the G1 Center I guess.

Yep, though I have a feeling they'll start to play a few matchups in the Rams/Chargers stadium each year when that's complete. I doubt we'll get one of those though

If we're playing the what-if game the score could easily been a little more favorable to the Ags too. We missed a FG and had a TD called back if I remember right.

I'm happy to walk away from that as a game where we stayed competitive for a half or more and didn't let it run away until maybe the very end.

I poked around on their website and indeed, you can pay $1100 or up to $2000 for a bed depending on how many housemates you want. Sharing a room goes for $760+.

I thought I was looking at whole unit prices for a second; my brain just refused to process that as a Davis rent. My whole unit at the Colleges was $2400 and we split that five ways!