Everybody in the stadium knew what Tompkins would do. 100% predictable play calling...

My wife is a Michigan alum and she's glued to the TV. Nice, midwest weather!

FCS Playoff Schedule Saturday, 11/27, All games on ESPN+:

Sacred Heart 7 at Holy Cross 0 with 12:57 to go in the 2nd Q
Davidson at Kennesaw State 11 AM
UC Davis at South Dakota State 12 Noon
Stephan F Austin at Incarnate Word 12 Noon
Northern Iowa at EWU 1 PM
Tennessee-Martine at Missouri State 1 PM
Southern Illinois at South Dakota 3 PM
Florida A&M at Southeastern Louisiana 4 PM

We're huge underdogs and it may take a miracle but Aggie football knows something about miracle games and being huge underdogs. I just want the entire team to come home proud of themselves regardless of the outcome. Aggie Pride! Go Ags!

Nice win to battle back after falling behind early in the 3rd quarter. We shot 9-32 from 3. I'm not sure we want to be a team putting up 30+ 3's a game though. Now it's out of the frying pan and into the fire when the Ags travel to Oregon next Wednesday. Oregon has size including 6'8 and 6'7...

This team lives and dies by the long ball. They were draining 3's against a weak Sac team but today they are 3-19 for 16% from 3 in the first half.

Ugh...the wind will affect our passing and kicking game and we haven't shown that we can run with much success lately. The Jacks have a strong running game so the wind will favor them even more. We are entering the game as a 17 point underdog. As if we needed another obstacle to overcome...

I don't think anything specific has been said about Harrell's injury, All I can say is that it did not look good and I would think an ACL injury is likely.

Welcome to our forum, Joe. It will be a tall order for the Ags but, who knows, anything can happen. I agree that a rematch with Sac would be great for these two programs.

At least Jen and the Lady Ags took it to the Hornets!

From the Enterprise:

“We have the potential to be a good basketball team, but Sac State really took it to us tonight,” said Aggie head coach Jim Les. “We were outcoached and outplayed and everyone now knows what I’ve known all along, that Brandon Laird (Sac State head coach) is a really good basketball coach.”

“That’s Sacramento State basketball,” Laird noted. “We had a tough loss against UC San Diego and we had some heart-to-hear talks after that and our guys really responded tonight. We were fearless and aggressive and confident and it showed in the result.”

Les agreed.

“They were the aggressor right from the start,” said the Aggie coach. “We were soft and unaggressive. They contested everything we tried to do on offense and we didn’t have an answer for it. To the aggressor goes the prize of the W, so credit to them. We were just reacting to their aggression and that’s usually not a recipe for success for us.”

“We started out 2-0 and maybe got a little bit full of ourselves,” Les added. “This was a humbling experience tonight. We’ll find out who we are, but I believe in the character of this team and I’m confident we’ll respond in the right way, but we have a lot of work to do.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/uc-davis-mens-basketball-falls-to-sacramento-state/

From the Enterprise:

The Aggies enter the playoff on a two-game losing streak, dropping a 38-20 decision to Eastern Washington, followed by a 27-7 blowout at the hands of Sacramento State.

Still, UCD head coach Dan Hawkins says the past is the past and the playoff gives everyone a chance to start over.

“There are 24 teams in the playoff, so we have to show up and play hard. Only the survivors advance,” said Hawkins.

“We always stress trying to be the best version of ourselves and we weren’t that last Saturday against Sacramento State. It was certainly a humbling experience and it’s not the way we like to coach or play.”

Added Hawkins, “Nobody likes going into this after losing to Eastern and Sacramento State, but if I had told our team before the season started that we’d beat Tulsa, Cal Poly and Weber State and make the playoffs, they’d have been fired up. Right now, it’s a one-game season for everyone.”

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/uc-davis-football-wrap-up/

Same to you, Finn and Go Ags!

Link to the presser:

https://fb.watch/9ufk__P0uj/

I think we have to keep in mind that what I heard from a player's relative was "their emotional response" to what they say they have been hearing the accuracy of which can not be verified. However, there is no doubt that the leadership and consistency at the QB position has been an issue this year.

HR has looked spectacular for periods of time and then had some difficulties. He got replaced by Hastings and, for a true Fr QB, I think he's done a pretty good job but he has had his difficulties also. Both of them have done very well in stretches and poorly in other stretches but how much of that has to due with running for your life when the OL can't protect you very well also?

I think replacing HR after he didn't seem to be himself after he got injured was justified and giving Hastings quite a bit of time to get more experienced was fine also but, when Hastings began to struggle and the offense was practically dead in the water for quite a while, maybe HR should have been given another chance sooner. Tough call...

Well, I tend to agree with him that EWU deserved to be seeded.

Of course...the Ags play like the Kings at the Golden 1 Center... :rofl:

AINO... :rofl:

Some family members of one of our defensive players were sitting in front of us at the Causeway game. They were adamant that Rodriques should be playing and they were not happy about it. According to them, they said that Rodriiques is not injured and it was simply a coaching decision that he wasn't playing.

They seemed to have personal knowledge about Rodriques whether first hand or through their defensive player relative. They were very high on HR and they were really upset that he had been permanently benched. They said he's is an amazing kid who is very humble and quiet about not playing but they implied that "there were team members who were not happy about it."

They were not happy with our coaching staff either for a variety of reasons. I have no idea if this information is fully accurate so I've chosen not to mention the defensive players name but, it does appear that there is some credence that permanently benching HR has not been an entirely popular move.