The box score for the OSU game shows that the Buckeyes outshot the Ags 20-5 with 8 shots on goal to the Ags 5. OSU also had 13 corners and the Ags only had 1. So it appears that OSU dominated the action but soccer is a game where the only thing that truly counts is putting the ball in the net more than the opponent.

Good day for Aggie soccer: the women beat USF 3-1 and the men took down Ohio State 2-1.

The Aggies took down another major program today with a win over North Carolina 3-1 (26-24, 13-25, 25-17, 25-18) in Tucson. The Ags rallied back from a 19-12 deficit in the first game and a set point by UNC before winning the first set .

We were hoping to attend but couldn't make it. Was there a good turnout?
I've always been impressed with how bright and articulate the Aggie athletes are whenever you hear them speak so I'm not surprised that the coaches are impressive as well. Being an Aggie means being a scholar-baller...the way it should be in college athletics!

Excellent article: "College Football Is Eating Its Institutions Alive:"

Excerpt:

And while the NCAA is flawed—hugely, hilariously flawed—and was in desperate need of reform, it was still the closest thing college football had to an overarching authority. When it checked out, that vacuum launched an arms race among athletic directors, conference commissioners and television executives to fight for every scrap of revenue—and to destroy anyone who stood in their way.

That’s why Oklahoma’s now in the SEC, Arizona is in the Big 12, Washington’s now in the Big Ten and the Pac-12 is dead. Every college football decision has been made with solely short-term interests—rather than what’s good for the sport, and higher education in general—in mind. No one’s minding the store. So everyone’s pulling up and selling anything not nailed down.

This is bad enough for college football which is going to look up in 10 years and realize almost everything people loved about it is now gone. But it’s also bigger than college football. If you care about other collegiate sports, or just “college” as a concept—you need to know: there is collateral damage everywhere.

First off, what may make sense for college football television contracts—the reason all this realignment is happening in the first place—is generally a disaster for every other collegiate non-revenue sport. (A non-revenue sport is one that doesn’t make money for the university but is an essential part of the collegiate experience regardless—generally speaking, it’s every sport but football and occasionally men’s college basketball).

Whole article here: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/opinions/college-football-conferences-realignment-pac-12-acc-sec-big-12-leitch/index.html

Ooof...a temperature of 101 will feel even hotter when you add in the high humidity that is typical of Texas. Conditioning and team depth will play a big role in that kind of sweltering weather.

You should be able to do it on an iPad.

1. If you want to post a YouTube video, click on "share" directly below the video and then click on "Copy." That will copy the video link to your iPad.

2. Then to post the video in the AST forum, click on the movie camera icon first. That will open an "Insert Media" box. Then paste the YouTube link you're copied to your iPad into the "Insert Media" box and then click on "GO." That will paste the link into your post and, when you post your comment, the YouTube video will open in your post.

Hope this helps.

Another well done video!

The FCS Football Coaches Poll has been released (click on the image to enlarge it).



https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/football/fcs/fcs-coaches-poll

Good for Doss. His pro career has been a long and convoluted road. I hope he sticks with the Chargers.

Note: Former Sac State RB, Elijah Dotson, had TD runs of 40 and 39 yards for the Chargers also.

The DB video is much, much better than the one they did on the QB's.

This is the best article I have read yet about the fall of the PAC12 and the impact of the rush to form super conferences in college football. Unfortunately, the whole article is only able to be viewed in its entirety by people who subscribe to ESPN+. I could break it down and copy and post sections of it but it's quite a long article. Very worthwhile to read if you have access to it.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/insider/story/_/id/38140373/pac-12-downfall-college-football-realignment-big-ten

Massey Pre-season rankings (click on the image to enlarge it):



https://masseyratings.com/ranks?s=cf&sub=fcs

AGS Pre-season poll (click on the image to enlarge it):



https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?336272-AGS-Poll-Results-2023-Wk0

Haven't seen us mentioned in yet.