I will say that SJSU is looking somewhat better than their abysmal record indicates. They've had a lot of close games against FBS opponents and SDSU barely beat them 16-13 on a 51-yd field goal on Sat. So it does say something that we put over 40 on a team that is hanging with decent mountain West opponents

Aggies basically clinched a winning season at this point!

Some serious chaos would have to occur in the 6-6 lose-out-and-make-playoffs scenario

Until the EWU game later this season!

Interesting that the stats are so close-ish compared to the scoreline. Then again, the Stanford game was kind of like that too in favor of the Cardinal.

That was a joke, mostly

... though a man can dream

Gotta get the margin of victory higher than NDSU's over the same team

All right Aggies, just uh do what you've been doing

TD Preece!

We're getting stops, ball's moving, should get at least 3 at the end of this drive. Feels like the bleeding has stopped

Two 3 and outs, ick. Gotta get a stop here

Ahh I get it, it's the "Maiercle Moment"

I'm listening to the KHTK pregame show today and Hawk called the game the "Miracle Moment"

ok this is my favorite so far

Miracle in Gray

Prayer on 4th

Overtime in October

October OT

Looking at the film, I really like how Hawk showed the Wildcat with CJ but didn't try to force it when it didn't work. Hopefully that will make defenses spend time preparing for it, without prematurely revealing every wrinkle or variation in this year's version.

Every year we keep up a home win streak is another generation of students who've never seen an Aggie loss. Exciting times!

Regarding the admissions thing -- there probably is a cutoff below the average for non-athletics incoming students, but it's all apples to oranges when you think about it. Picture a high school senior who didn't have the hottest grades but was also a music prodigy who spent several hours a day practicing and wrote a convincing essay about it -- he probably would get strong consideration, and that situation really isn't much different than a football player who racks up a ton of extracurricular hours and probably had a lot more personal contact with the school than the average applicant.

Like somebody mentioned, yield is another important consideration for college admissions, especially since US News ranks based on lower admission rates. It's not abnormal for colleges to preferentially admit students who have a higher probability of actually enrolling (though public schools might be more limited in what tactics they can use), so in that case one can see how a recruit who's already verbally committed again trumps a random applicant who's applying to a bunch of schools.

Then there's a host of other factors, like requirements for different majors, out-of-state vs in-state, local context admissions (doing well at one's high school, regardless of how competitive it is), etc. And then there's the essay wildcard. While some athletes certainly are in impacted majors, also many of them aren't, and that will also play a role.

Anyway, the point is that the whole system is holistic to the point of being arbitrary. So there probably is a cutoff lower than the average admission stats, but that doesn't actually mean that the athletes are less qualified or that they're unattractive candidates by standard admissions schools of thought.

I can't imagine we aren't. Haven't seen proof either way though.

And if Cal Poly fans think that Davis is just a two-man show, y'all are in for a brutal surprise on Saturday

2019 is actually a really good schedule, like one of the coolest I can remember. Brutal in OoC, but good experiences for the team

They actually exceeded capacity, didn't they? I would guess they oversold tickets based on a conservative estimate of how many students would show up, and that's where the overflow came from.