morning everyone! ticket sales looking significantly better than yesterday...

my parents need a place to hang out, would they be welcome haha?

the most wild thing for me is that the attendance for lots of fcs playoff games are low... but they also have like 3k-17k students compared to our 40k...blows my mind sometimes when I think about the size of this school haha

It seems obvious that the heavy focus on academics connects to the whole struggle to have people understand who we are playing, and even more getting people into the seats. Our social media team has KILLED it recently in my opinion, but attendance isnt booming or something. I also think from people that I've talked to, that the whole fbs vs fcs thing confuses the hell out of people (which again goes back to most students not being very involved in athletics). The amount of folks who hear that were in the playoffs and then ask why we are not playing the likes of oregon would surprise you. Granted, if we played oregon I dont know how much better attendance would be hypothetically during finals week, but its an interesting distinction to have all the graphics say "d1" playoffs and then potentially play southeastern Missouri State not cal or arkansas. Dont think moving to fbs would necessarily solve our attendance woes (see our basketball attendance even though all d1 conferences are simply that, d1) but its an interesting thing to think about public perception wise.

plough robbed

I think its kinda just the honest reality of going to a school where academics are basically everything... which is great but also I think most students could take a few hours off studying to go to the football game instead of scrolling tik tok.. im 20 and sound 90 but still.

I’m not gonna lie the amount of students I’ve talked to on campus who are stressed about finals and don’t plan on going is not the most encouraging…

i want that stadium expansion, especially after a season like this. My frustration with our AD's stadium renderings and then inaction was already extreme, but after seeing these attendance numbers, and the lack of concessions, bathrooms, and non-grass seating im even more feral for expansion.

yeah, tickets are free through the same ticketing app that everyone uses. When you log in with your student ID it has a student ticket option that you can get for free. I think NCAA makes all college football playoff games paid for students? I would much rather us be able to just go to games and show our IDs personally. The website has been finicky for friends before and not recognized their student ticket status but its generally good.

WOOOOOOOOOOO UCD UCD UCD

Sac state qb is gonna be good.

yeah stoked!! WOOOO

I thought I saw that black turf move a bit under the right but that’s a stretch lol

guy walking around my apartment complex in North Davis wearing a sac state hoodie, hat, and socks is a bit much.

*wink

me neither! That 10-2 season would have me grinning!

lets not tell the ags that USD just beat NDSU... full gas.

where are sac's 270,000 fans people act like they have every game?

done :)

Wanted to make a little write up from after the game as a student sitting in the student section. Got there about 4:10 and they still had some of the 400-500 bandanas they were giving out to students. Grabbed those and wrapped them around our necks before heading to the Aggie Pack section. The stadium staff were standing at the bottom and tops of the rows handing out noise makers which was pretty great. The cowbells lined the seats too, which seemed to be a fan favorite, with a few folks around me conglomerating their 1 cow bell with 7 others that their friends had picked up to make a mega-cow bell, it was pretty funny. Noticed the center section took no time at all to fill up, with the edges slowly getting creeped by the oozing of Montana State fans and their frankly impressive levels of fan merchandise.

We had Batman, a group of frat members, and a guy covered completely in Aggie face paint rocking the crowd. By the end of the first quarter it had filled in pretty well, but it seemed obvious to me that most of the students didn’t follow Aggie Football much outside of knowing Lan Larison (someone had a custom I love lan t shirt) and Cori the punt dog. Highlights from the first half of the game in the students section was the reaction to our first touchdown (such a beautiful drive), and the fans trying to figure out how to distract the Montana State qb, while seemingly thinking his last name was “melon” haha. As the Bobcats started to take the lead, in the end of the first half, and continue it through the 3rd, I was really happy to see so many students stay. This team definitely has grit, and the fans seemed to believe that we could do something to come back (thanks to Coombs defense keeping us in it). Yeah we had some people screaming at Miles, and simply in awe of the punt return from Montana, but the fans seemed generally positive the whole time.

Some things I was not as stoked about was our fans chanting “f*ck Montana” for a considerable amount of the game, while we were down 20+…. we just looked embarrassing. Almost as embarrassing though was the Montana State players chirping back, and their coaches constantly having to tell a few of them to dial it down. It was just a ridiculous scene for a few minutes there after they went up 22 or whatever it was. Banter is good, but it’s just goofy at a certain point. By the 4th quarter I was blown away with how many students stayed, it made me so happy to see, especially considering the amount of crop tops and t shirts people were wearing around me as it got into the mid 40s out. Obviously the onside kick was electric, and our final drive was as well, but that 2 point conversion at the end that ultimately went sour, definitely deflated everyone (as expected).

I will say, it seemed to me they most students were wayyyy more into the game when they had something to shake or bang around to make noise instead of yelling when we only could have so many students in that section. I also think most students left the game impressed with the Aggies fight, which would be a great change in the students collective psyche to stay after halftime knowing we could come back…. If only we did! Either way, an amazing game out at UC Davis Health Stadium. Hoping we can rally the troops for a home playoff game if one comes our way, because this team definitely could have won that game, and I think our fans and students especially, should be enjoying this Sunday morning thinking about the future of Aggie Football.