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.

You're not talking about this one by any chance are you?

http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/wp-content/gallery/uc-davis-aggies-aggie-stadium/Aggie-Stadium-2.jpg

I kind of get not wanting to talk about it; focusing on filling 10.7k should have been the priority. If this attendance is sustained, they'll need to at least comment on it though

Awesome! I had to leave the house at halftime and missed the rest; looking forward to catching the fourth quarter in all its glory

Well here's a render of an enlarged stadium from Daviswiki. I don't know about Phases, though I assumed an athletics training center and/or expanded locker room building was the next logical step.

https://localwiki.org/davis/Aggie_Stadium/_files/sign-stadium.jpg/_info/

Chevron Bechtel Allegiant Mondavi Stadium

One of my coworkers bought up this game to me today -- not too unusual; he knows I follow all the games -- but then another chimed in and he clearly had watched or attended. I've never had a conversation about Aggie football at work thatI wasn't driving before, it was wild

oh, I see. Those hold up very well

They used those for the USD game. Interesting choice to take the home opener over homecoming

https://images.sidearmsports.com/ucdavisaggies.com/images/2018/9/8/Gilliam_1080.jpg

I wonder if extra bleachers could go up in the end zones behind the grass? I imagine it would require some sort of permit or fire marshal inspection, but I know Aggie Soccer Field has done that before.

The gray and gold I think is my favorite non-classic Aggie uniform combo yet. Don't think it was a good idea on homecoming, but man does it look good.

Also, I believe we have yet to repeat a uniform combo this year. It'll be interesting to see what we do for the rivalry games -- For example, gold-white-gold and gold-blue-white are still on the table.

What are we going to call this? I'm kind of partial to the Miracle in Gray