Yes, Scott Marsh mentioned that the regular guy was ill.

It's important to give Norfolk State some credit. Their coach is outstanding and his game plan was perfect, not that the Ags poor play didn't help. The players have to be in great condition to have gone through a long road trip and to have had enough energy to play well through the entire game in front of a hostile (thought not very large) crowd.

Games of Nov. 25:

North Carolina-Greensboro (3-2) 71, Long Beach State (home,1-6) 48
CSUN (home, 5-1) 89, Denver (3-4) 60

I don't disagree that the Spartans took TY out of his game, but the whole team contributed to the prat fall that was tonight with 17 turnovers in addition to TY's 6. NSU had twice as many assists. Sevilla was the only one who had a good night. But getting back to TY, Bob Williams made the excellent point that, with Eli Pepper gone, the burden of leadership falls on TY. I don't know that anyone on the team or the coaching staff pushes that role, but tonight's performance suggests that he feels it and presses too hard. A key to the season is whether he can grow into that role or have the team take some of the load off of him, something a grad student like Rocak could do.

Norfolk State straightened it out and embarrassed UC Davis. Or maybe the Ags embarrassed themselves. Clearly, the Grand Canyon game wasn't a turning point for this team. I'm inclined to chalk it off as a bad night. What else can one say when their second half resulted in as many turnovers as the first half. Troubling too that they only hit 69% of their free throws. Not going to get any easier as they travel to Corvallis after Thanksgiving.

18 turnovers. The Ags playing like my old intramural team that went 0-6!

TY is moving well. This is an ugly game. The teams have combined for 23 turnovers and 21 fouls with only 4 minutes gone in the second half. I can see Norfolk State being worn out, but the first tem that straightens things out should win.

It doesn't look good. Might be an abdominal strain. This game seems a bit like the Idaho game. Vandals came out really hot from 3 and had the lead at the half, but cooled off and we won. Spartans started off hot but cooled off before the half.

Starting to look like a trap game. Aggies seem kind of confused tonight at both ends. Being out shot, out-rebounded, out-assisted and out-hustled.

Zero= the amount of attention I've paid to the FBS playoffs.

Do students have to pay for regular season games, too? How long has this been going on? When I was there, students got into all games for free with their ASUCD card. I can't remember going to a football or basketball game that wasn't sold out during the term. Those were the good old days.

Games of Nov. 24:

CSU Bakersfield (away, 4-3) 68, Northeastern 60
CSUN (away, 4-1) 89, Utah Tech 79
UC Riverside (home, 4-3) 80, Alcorn State 52

I noticed that they put all of the top seeded Big Sky teams in the same side of the bracket. Guess they don't want the championship game to be an all Big Sky contest? No such reluctance to make it an all Missouri Valley game, though.

I keep forgetting to remark about the "return" of C. J. Hutton in this game. I think it was the first time he had a real impact on a game this season. He'll be a very welcome factor in the playoffs.

How important was that last second TD against Portland State? I'm so excited to see my alma mater in a playoff game. It's the first time I will have a had a chance to see the Ags in post-season.

Looking at some of Sac's past games, it looks like Conklin was the whole offense: vs. Cal Poly he accounted for 88.8% of the yardage; today vs the Ags, 87.1%; vs. Portland State, 68.8%; vs. Weber State, 66.9% and vs. EWU, 66.6%. Maybe this is Coach Thompson's game plan, but I suspect it's largely because the kid is just very good. The way he could throw on the move and make pinpoint passes was impressive. Hard to blame our secondary, plus, I think we only sacked him once.

Hard to believe that Sac State lost to Cal Poly and Portland State.

Games of Nov. 22:

Florida International 76, CSU Bakersfield (away, 2-3) 73
Fresno State 72, Long Beach State (home, 1-5) 69
UC San Diego (home, 5-2) 80, Toledo 45
St. Mary's 80, Cal Poly (away, 3-4) 66

Lan Larison: 273 all purpose yards and a recovered onside kick. Are we sure he's not from Krypton?

The fat lady has sung. Not the greatest performance but it sure has been exciting.