41-7 Montana State at the end of the 3rd Q.

If Montana State can finish this game with a complete blowout of Montana, I think it could help the Aggie playoff chances because it makes our loss to MS not look so bad and it makes Sac's narrow win over Montana not look so good but, if we take care of business today and upset Sac, we don't need to worry about it.

38-7 Montana State with 11 minutes to go in the 3rd.

...and Robby Hauck just got flagged for unnecessary roughness...

No wonder Hawk always offers a scholarship to a good long snapper!

Today's schedule:

Montana at Montana State (currently tied at 7-7 with 8:20 to go in the 1st Q)
Idaho at Idaho State 12 noon
Weber State at Northern Arizona 12 noon
Northern Colorado at EWU 1 pm
Aggies at Sac State 2 pm
Portland State at Cal Poly 5 pm

Montana's coach thinks that kind of "dirty" play is acceptable. It continues to happen with his teams because he doesn't coach against it.

Yes, The Toom could be a mud bowl too. I remember it was kind of a source of embarrassment that we were hailed as a top agriculture school but we couldn't keep grass growing on the football field. :scream:

There's some great ball movement by the Aggies in this highlights clip:

This team is at their best when they get out and run and play fast.

I think there have been several games at Hughes Stadium over the years. I forget the exact year but, the most memorable one for me, was the game that was played in deep mud and driving rain with 6 inches of standing water in the center of the field. We won the game with a long TD bomb to Onomo Ojo. It was the worst playing conditions I ever saw for a football game. I'm sure the field was ruined.

I agree that Sac's LB's are one of their defensive strengths. I've watched parts of several Sac games and their defense is very aggressive especially their LB's. They swarm to the ball and gang tackle. Their DB's are good also. They have speed and athleticism. It won't be easy to go deep on them but we haven't gone deep very often this year anyway.

Sac is going to come in very fired up and aggressive. I would imagine that we may have some plays dialed up to take advantage of their aggressiveness with our short passing game. We've done a good job of protecting Hastings this year and we'll need to do that today so that our receivers have enough time to find the creases in the Sac pass defense. I don't see us breaking big plays against their D but I sure hope I'm wrong!

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It should be a great, collegiate atmosphere tomorrow. I really like this Aggie team and I feel like we've been largely overlooked since we started 1-4 agains a brutal schedule. I want us to win this one so bad. Go Ags!

I agree with you to the extent that it often takes players a bit of time to break a sweat and get in a rhythm. However, with good depth on the team this year, I think we'll see Les substituting liberally throughout the season. When a coach can go to the bench and keep fresh legs without a big drop off in talent on the floor for the whole game, that's a great thing to have.

We just got home from the game. This was a nice win for the Aggies over a very scrappy team who would not quit. Each time they made a run and got close, we found a way to answer and get the lead back to 8 or 9. I thought both teams played hard defense so nothing came easy for the offenses.

My wife was keeping score and she noted that we played 9 players in the first half and I noted how I think this team has a lot depth which is something we haven't had in a while. On the drive home, we were listening to Les in the radio post-game interview and he said that the strength of the team is the depth and that they plan to play a lot of players in each game. He said we have a lot of quality players who can contribute and that that can make a big difference late in the game as our opponents wear down. I thought we saw that tonight as the Ags pulled away late in the game.

He liked our defensive intensity tonight, which he said was missing in the LMU game, but that we still had too many defensive break downs. For example, he said that Fields, who scored 25 for the Red Wolves, was a good player. At halftime, they talked about how he always drives to the right but our defense never really took that away from him.

I thought Beasley had a very nice game and DeBruhl really stepped up tonight too. Sione Losé is a pleasant surprise also. All in all, it was a good win for the Ags and I'm looking forward to seeing this team continue to get better.

You’ve gotta love the passion that DeBruhl plays with.

A fair size crowd for an early season game and a decent number of students. The band sounds great too. The game is a defensive struggle. Too many TO’s for the Ags. I hope we can get some offensive flow in the second half.

From Hero Sports:

No. 24 UC Davis at No. 2 Sacramento State

Another great rivalry to end the regular season. UC Davis is in a win-and-in situation to finish 7-4 with back-to-back road wins over ranked opponents. A loss, and getting in at 6-5 on this large bubble will be tough. Sac State can secure a Top 2 seed with a win.

UC Davis has been on a terror lately, destroying its opponents, including Idaho for most of last week’s game. The offensive line has been playing at a high level, and UC Davis can score on you quickly with some explosive athletes. Sac State’s defense will have to play one of their better games. The Hornets can also score in a multitude of ways, and their ground game has proven to be tough to fully contain.

This is going to be a battle. But it seems every week when we think Sac State could lose, it finds a way to win. This may be another big Asher O’Hara game on the ground to control the clock and keep UC Davis’ offense off the field.

Prediction: Sac State 35-31

https://herosports.com/fcs-football-2022-week-12-predictions-montana-montana-state-bzbz/