I’m hoping this is the moment where the TOP starts to matter. Their D has been on the field a lot

lol they’re imploring people on loudspeaker to come back in time

Crowd has emptied out and they do allow you to leave and re enter. There’s an opportunity to take advantage of a less noisy stadium in the third like Plough did for UM last year

Aaand they’re back into it

The guy in my section pivoting to taking about volleyball right on cue was pretty funny. Crowd is somewhat out of it now

By the scoreboard countdown I’d estimate 7:33, so pretty much everyone’s in alignment

It appears to also be their weight room / athletics center. Very clever use of space.

honestly their stadium is already pretty fantastic and somewhere I could see Aggie Stadium going (horseshoe around one end, nice and tall bleachers on sidelines overhanging concourses, premium seating under the scoreboard). It’s going to be a definitive FCS stadium after the upgrade I think.

It’s a beautiful night though temperature is dropping fast. Don’t recall seeing much moisture in the ground on my way here so I think/hope weather is as minimally impactful as it could be given the location

Special teams already getting warm

Someone at the gate told me they pushed the kickoff time “a few mins”

As if this writing at 6:26 pacific, the scoreboard still says just under 68 mins to kickoff

last time I saw a non ESPN crowd this big I think was the senior night for the excellent Corey Hawkins team vs conference runner up Irvine, so it might be the biggest in a decade

Some aggressive student marketing plus Sac State staff star power I think

Anybody else making the trip? I’m prepared to be a solid block of ice by the end

I totally understand what Plough is getting at in terms of what this came represented for overall program trajectory, but I’m also amused at the implied shade to Griz fans that delivering them a near historic loss at Wa Griz wasn’t as meaningful or surprising as sloppily beating a potentially sub 500 Idaho team

Have to be better than that, ouch

Me when I see someone line up as fullback for the first time in years

As someone who became an Aggie fan during the Biggs-Gould transition it's insane to have the offense be the unit I'm by far the most confident in

Gbatu with the first by the time I even finished my previous comment lol

Wow they're really diving deep into the rulebook for this game