As usual, you are probably right...I was thinking more of Atlanta as a place that is more attractive to the business and money people at ESPN. Bigger town, easier flights, likelihood of available equipment and crew....and that the talent, both behind and in front of the cameras would rather spend Friday night in Atlanta than in smaller rural areas like Fargo or Davis.

Best thing Kennesaw State may have going is the site. Atlanta is a better selling point than Fargo, Davis, etc. Like the realtors say, the three most important things are "location, location, location."

Three Big Sky schools with first round byes.....!!!

One game at a time - at the half yesterday who thought we would be looking down the road at playoffs....but should the cards fall where we hope, let's not be the playoff team that falls to USD.

(A couple of years ago I thought that Iowa would learn from the other Big Ten and Big XII schools and not look past NDSU, but the fates had other plans.)

Lest we forget that most important statistic: Montana time of possession: 30:45; UCD time of possession: 29:15

Attendance at PSU @ Slack: 3,267

From your photo it looks like they may be including players and coaches.

Not Big Sky, but Cal beat Washington, 12-10, today. That's a shocker.

Water polo score from Stanford: Stanford 13, UCD 10. A loss to be sure, but with each season we are doing better against the big four water polo schools.

Ooops, wrong thread.

...Aggie men sweep Slack State in soccer this year with a 1-0 victory today at Slack. Running score is now UCD 15, Slack 0.

Next event is men's and women's cross country at the NCAA West Regionals to be held November 9th in Sacramento.

I believe.

"The Daily Missoulian has a 16-page ‘Gameday’ insert in the paper today. In depth analysis of the teams, short bios of 8 Ags with their pictures, depth charts, etc. We’re not in California!"

The entire print edition of The Bee is something like 34 pages, 10 of which are classifieds and "puff piece" articles devoted to real estate. Scanning the e-print/pdf edition I cannot find a single article on college football at any level.

The print edition of the Saturday Bee now costs $4.00.

Back to football; Go Ags!

"...that messy collage of colors and scribbles that Maryland has on their helmets..."

Also known as the flag of the state of Maryland, which may mean that the state flag is a messy collage of colors and scribbles.

It is hard to blame this year's performance on players who left two years ago. They had a good season last year after those departures and were at least thinking playoffs as they played the Causeway game. Did he have similar problems at EWU and WSU? Then again, looking at Sear's overall W-L record, last year's success may have been the blip rather than this year's anemic performance.

And as luck would have it, one of the departures was a QB who went to North Dakota and came back to Sacramento this past weekend to defeat Slack.

Back in the dark ages when a handful of Slack fans still wrote on the fan site, they had this to say about the article:

https://www.bigskyfans.com/hornets/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2789

Essentially that it is a quickly written, thinly researched hit piece. There are lots of reasons people leave teams, and a new coaching regime usually spurs an uptick in departures.

I'm thinking Ahwahnee Stadium.

I have criticized the Bee for its decline in coverage of local college sports, so should acknowledge this morning that the Bee’s website ran AP articles on both the UCD and CSUS games, and that the print edition ran an article on the Davis game, attributed to “Bee Sports Staff.”

The Davis game:
https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article220006545.html

The Sac State game:
https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article220007880.html

Absolute silence on the Sac Buzz site. Other than the Colter Nuanez Big Sky features, no one has posted there since mid-week.

My father graduated from a Big Ten school. I have sat with him on snow covered bleachers and listened as he told fans who were flocking out of the stadium where the result was long since decided and the thermometer was approaching zero that the game's not over yet. Flash forward some years and he has moved to the Bay Area and adopted Cal as his college team of convenience. He left ONE game early...right after John Elway marched Stanford down field for a go ahead score. He left to move the family car for a post game tailgate. As he walked to the car he heard the crowd cheer...seems the Bears had taken the kick-off and proceeded to lateral ...well you know.