Yep, great season.

We're in the playoffs, anything can happen... except the Bison losing.

Well, we'll just have to bring the kryptonite.

Hate to say it....but them California boys weren't ready for it up there. Its a different game in CA.

Good experience for a young team.

I was watching some of the highlights and you could see us laboring. There was one where Doss made a great catch off his own tip, and we came up hugging and puffing like he had run a marathon. I imagine it’s like trying to adjust to altitude

Cheney Elevation is 2352 feet

probably felt a lot higher breathing in that 30 degree air!

Some of the Eastern fans sitting near me were confidant our team couldn't handle the cold. I wanted them to be wrong, but there's no question we had trouble with it. I don't want to say that's why we lost. EWU is a great team. We've improved tremendously but there's still a ways to go.

I'd think its especially tough if you just come in for 1 or 2 plays.

It's easy to become dehydrated in very dry, cold weather too.

That last TD by EWU is what will cost them if we meet them in the playoffs. All that did was encite the Ags to whip their a****. Never give an opponent a reason to kick your a**. That TD by EWU gave the Ags a reason to kick their a**. Big coaching mistake on their part. It's like telling someone that can't succeed at something. The last thing they want to do is let you be right!

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Momentum is so big too, psychology, TOs... just take away 3 of the 4 TOs (forget the Hail Mary), offense completes another drive in the 3rd quarter... so the D gets a blow ... and its a different game... don't get me wrong, they are very, very good... but I don't think they're 5 TDs better.

Points scored after a game is decided don’t mean much
Happy to note that the playoff commitees computer method quoted on this board didn’t reward point differential past 21 points.

saw one of the brackets that shows a possible UCD vs SDSU - the one in the northern tier state not the one where it is always 72 degrees - matchup If in Brookings that time of year .... yikes!

That would be a brutal draw...

I made a comment during the game that the temperature "felt" much colder than what the thermometer indicated. My feet were frozen. In hindsight, would it have helped if the team got there a few days early and practiced on the field? I remember back in the D2 days when we were hosting a playoff game, one of the dakota teams got here like in the middle of the week and were practicing at a high school in Vacaville.

Well, after seeing my therapist, I am putting this game behind me and looking forward to the Causeway, if we can play it.

Unless some teams ahead of us drop and we get a seed, I would bet it is us vs. U-San Diego at our place. USD has played Poly and NAU the past two years.

and won both.

... heh.

It's interesting that these playoffs, really seem to be more like Regionals in the first round, expanding to the bigger/longer trips across the country thereafter.

I think SDSU finally got an indoor stadium, but could be wrong

Nope. New Stadium but not indoor
https://www.argusleader.com/story/sports/college/south-dakota-state-university/2016/08/27/dana-j-dykhouse-stadium-s-game-changer/89347180/

Nice upgrade ikn Brookings though! Good to see the investment