Irvine defeated Santa Barbara 11-9 to win the Big West Championship. Irvine now heads to USC for the NCAA Championships and will face the #4 seed Princeton in the first round.

11/19 results:

Cornell 88 Fullerton 70
Cal Baptist 67 Cal Poly 58
Santa Barbara 96 Le Moyne 72

I think that Miles would tell you that it wasn't his best year but I think that, overall, he still did a pretty good job.

I remember Hawk saying that when we lose a game the fans and the press look first to the QB and the coaches to be at fault but, he went on to explain, that there are a whole lot of moving parts for a successful pass play including: the receivers running the right route and being in the right place for the timing of the pass, the receivers actually creating some separation so that there is a window open for the pass and the line giving the QB enough time to make his reads and so forth. Also, let's not forget that defensive players can make great plays to intercept a well thrown ball too. It always looks bad when it appears that the QB just threw a terrible interception and there are some for sure but the interception can also be due to other factors which is not the QB's fault.

Miles certainly has his limitations. He's not an elusive scrambler with dual threat capability but I believe Hawk when he says that Miles has such a high football IQ, makes good reads and is a solid leader on the field. He was fantastic last year and there have been rough spots this year for sure but Hawk believes in him and has him in there for reasons he believes is best for the team and I trust that.

Good point, Finn. In one of his pressers this year, Hawk said we don't use the portal much because so many of the players in the portal don't meet the transfer requirements necessary to get them into Davis.

No doubt.

11/18 games:

Portland State 73, Cal Poly 57
UC San Diego 73, Navy 55

If it's any consolation, there seems to be quite a bit of sentiment over off the AGS FCS football forum that the Aggies got screwed again this year:

https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?345567-AGS-Poll-Results-2023-Wk12-SELECTION-SUNDAY!/page5

Spot on.

That's for sure. The Montanas and the Dakotas get preferential treatment.

I am not surprised but I will say this, after what we saw last year and now this, the committee has no respect for the Aggies. If either of the Montana's were in a similar position as we were today, they'd be in.

This is what the FCS fans over on the AGS forum think the field will look like according to their final Top 25 poll which has the Ags at #25 and Sac at #16:

Re: AGS Poll Results 2023 Wk12 - SELECTION SUNDAY!
The fully seeded AGS playoff field would look like this:

16 Sac State/17 Youngstown State @ 1 South Dakota State
9 Furman/24 Duquesne @ 8 North Dakota State

13 Southern Illinois/20 Richmond @ 4 Idaho
12 North Dakota/21 Gardner-Webb @ 5 Villanova

14 Mercer/19 Lafayette @ 3 South Dakota
11 Delaware/22 Nicholls @ 6 Albany

15 Chattanooga/18 North Carolina Central @ 2 Montana
10 Austin Peay/ 23 Drake @ Montana State

First 4 out: Incarnate Word, UT Martin, Western Carolina, UC Davis

https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?345567-AGS-Poll-Results-2023-Wk12-SELECTION-SUNDAY!

The Montana AD is on the selection committee. You know he must of had a great amount of influence on screwing us last year but I wondering if he might be working for us this year since he's representing the Big Sky. Our loss to Montana was close and the stats for both team were even. If it wasn't for the TO's, we might have won that game. I hope he takes that into consideration too and tries his best to sway the committee in our favor.

I think Scott Gordon is the best color commentator we've ever had on our broadcast team. His comments after every play make the game so much more interesting and they show just how knowledgeable he is about the game. He's quick to pick up on the action and coaching strategies as they happen. He's our football equivalent of Bob Williams doing the color analysis for the men's basketball games. Both are great!

It's just too close for comfort. I think I'll just brace myself for disappointment but keep my fingers crossed.

Weber State 48 Cal Poly 21 - Final

Idaho State 63 Idaho State 21 - Final

Link to Sam Herder and Hero Sports Bracketology
https://herosports.com/fcs-football-2023-playoff-predictions-final-bzbz/

College Sports Madness has Sac in and the Aggies as one of the first 4 out.
https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/22255

Idaho 56 Idaho State 0 at the half.

Idaho is slaughtering ISU 56-0 at the half. I don't think this helps the Aggies at all in the eyes of the playoff selection committee since we struggled against ISU. Heaven help us if we do get in and get sent to Idaho. They're explosive!

Northern Arizona 49 EWU 42 - Final