On that punt fake, it looked like the ball never past the first down marker. — agalum

We were looking practically right down the first down line from our seats and it looked like the ball was a good yard short. Everyone around us was shocked when the line judge signaled first down. He made a judgement call from a poor perspective behind where the ball carrier was tackled. I guess there wasn't a good enough camera angle to overturn the call from the replay.

Tied at 28 at the half.

Our run for the National Championship starts today. My wife and I will be there and we hope Aggie fans will be loud and proud. Go Ags!

It would and that would be amazing.

The Aggies took advantage of Poly having two of their top scoring guards out with injuries. Isaac Jessop came into the game as their second leading scorer at 14.3 ppg an Jared Hyder was their #3 scorer at 13.8 ppg. I think this is probably why Les went small to start the game and really turned up the defensive pressure to force TO's since Poly was down two starting guards.

I'm not sure we can go that small and do the same against the interior size and strength that Santa Barbara has inside though. It will be interesting to see what Les has planned for the Gauchos.

Quite frankly, that's a shame. Andy Thompson is an excellent head coach. The Sac fans got spoiled by Troy Taylor's quick success and really turned against Thompson. Oh well, their loss in my opinion.

I hope it is a big cowbell. The one's that fans had at the MSU game were so small they were hard to hear. It's great that many of them were donated by some players' families though.

I know. It was confusing and it's not the first time we've had some kind of difficulty with ticketing. We also had a big mixup getting our Team Aggie passes. They eventually sorted it out but it certainly wasn't smooth sailing. It took a lot of our time and persistence and was frustrating.

We're easy going when it comes to things like this. We just figure people are trying to do their best but it doesn't help ticket sales when the purchasing process is confusing.

I'm kind of surprised about how many season ticket holders did not buy a ticket to this game. There may be a few like us who missed the Team Aggie email and ended up buying tickets but aren't sitting in our season ticket seats.

UCSB will be hoping to rebound Saturday after being upset at home by UCSD. — Toke69

I don't think the UCSD win was an upset. The Tritons are a really good basketball team and they showed it by beating the Gauchos in their house. I think they are just as good as if not a smidgen better than Santa Barbara. I'd rank the top 3 teams in the BW currently as #1 Irvine, #2 San Diego and #3 Santa Barbara.

We forced 20 TO’s but had 11 of our own. Crazy game…

Les shook up the starting lineup in a big way tonight. Ags have forced 12 TO’s already but can’t make a basket. We’re 2-15…!!

I'm surprised that we are favored as well. Honestly, based on how these two teams have been playing for the most part this season, I think we're the underdog tonight.

That's a pretty harsh, personally biased opinion but to each his own...

Bob Dunning takes the Aggies by 10:

AGGIES over ILLINOIS STATE ... Make no mistake, this is a very good Illinois State team coming in here on Saturday afternoon. But what an opportunity for Aggie fans to see the first home playoff game since 2018. This one will be a battle from start to finish. Take the Ags by 10.

FCS PLAYOFFS: Montana State over Tennessee-Martin, Idaho over Lehigh, South Dakota State over Montana, Incarnate Word over Villanova, Mercer over Rhode Island, North Dakota State over Abilene Christian, and South Dakota over Tarleton State.

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/take-the-broncos-the-ducks-the-dawgs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=152598899&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I'm not surprised. Poly has been playing very well and is coming off the upset over Stanford whereas the Ags have not been playing well lately and are coming off a blowout loss at Oregon State...two teams going in different directions at the moment. I do expect that the Ags are going to come out very hungry for this one though.

Well, they gave Bob Dunning the boot so I'm not surprised that they can't get their sports writing has gone downhill...

There's so much pressure and uncertainty on these athletes at such a young age especially when the big programs are already contacting them when they are 14 or even younger. It sounds like it's been long journey for him with a lot of ups and downs but he's grown a lot as a result over the years and now he has certainly made a wise decision in choosing to become an Aggie.

You always have to wonder if there are any players she might take with her. Coaches who leave for bigger programs often take players with them if they think they can compete at the higher level.

Arragh! Doesn't anyone check out the links before they officially post them?