I'm predicting 9-3 with losses to Cal, NDSU, and MSU. (You could easily swap Weber in for the last one though).

I do think there's a scenario in which we go undefeated. (Run game improvesdue to experience at the line and RB, defense goes from average to above average). But we're going to be underdogs in two games for sure and I imagine the odds may catch up to us somewhere along the line in conference play.

I have no clue how this will turn out, but what I am pretty sure of is that if NDSU were playing a so so team from the worst P5 conference, the bison would expect to win. So that's what I'm coming down on this game -- FCS or not, if we want to reach our potential as a program we'll eventually need to treat games like this as winnable.

Wellman's restrooms were below average, same for Rosseler (spelling?) And pretty much any older class building. The public ones tend to be in decent shape, sure, but overall my average grade for campus bathrooms was about a B.

I can't recall how bad the paint was but some of the Surge buildings and other prefab buildings were in pretty bad shape. I agree with the general assessment that some of the newer buildings are really nice but there are a lot that are way past their primes.

same, with free cancellation though. I'm not that bold

Aggies will be practicing at Colfax High for 3 days in August

Thought this was interesting, as Colfax is my alma mater but I never expected it to get attention from a D1 school. TE Garren O'Keefe is a Colfax grad, and there's been some other D1 recruits from that neck of the woods (UCLA star DE Eddie Vanderdoes played against Colfax when I was there).

This might also be a way to get some elevation training in.

checked the Cal website and it looks like the cheapest adult ticket anyway is $36 or so. Basically tailgate + ticket is a wash either way for CAAA/TA members, but in order to sit in the Davis section you have to get both. Anybody going to the tailgate will get a ticket anyway so I can kind of see why they did it this way

Not sure about Cal but UCLA was not free when I was briefly there. Students had to buy a pass that basically functioned as a combo FB/MBB season ticket. I forget if bus rides to the rose bowl were included or not in that.

Davis is free but it seems like ICA has been gradually moving to a distributed ticket model rather than students just showing ID cards for big games. Makes sense as the spectator sport teams are on the rise and Aggie stadium is starting to approach capacity

I read in a recent UC Davis magazine, I think, that the field will be done this fall. Makes sense, there are already locker rooms nearby and it's relatively simple compared to the building.

And Boise. And obligatory plug for SDSU, which while unranked at the time had a Heisman contender and beat Stanford two weeks later.

Good point. The only reason I'd think they would do that is if they somehow wanted to do something for fans in a slightly different region of LA. Not unlike playing the MBB Causeway game in the G1 Center I guess.

Yep, though I have a feeling they'll start to play a few matchups in the Rams/Chargers stadium each year when that's complete. I doubt we'll get one of those though

If we're playing the what-if game the score could easily been a little more favorable to the Ags too. We missed a FG and had a TD called back if I remember right.

I'm happy to walk away from that as a game where we stayed competitive for a half or more and didn't let it run away until maybe the very end.

I poked around on their website and indeed, you can pay $1100 or up to $2000 for a bed depending on how many housemates you want. Sharing a room goes for $760+.

I thought I was looking at whole unit prices for a second; my brain just refused to process that as a Davis rent. My whole unit at the Colleges was $2400 and we split that five ways!

Not sure about CFP -- that's an invitational tournament, not an NCAA championship. We might be in bigger trouble as an FCS contender.

As for the P12, not sure how much say they have in this. Sounds more like the legislature wants to try to set a trend.

Yes and no. I bet it will be relatively expensive on a per-unit basis but that doesn't mean it won't be filled up with students sharing rooms.

Also, based on my experience at SDSU (which has a ton of newer developments like these around campus), out of state and international students are prime candidates for luxury student housing. They're obviously coming in with a very different target for how much they're willing to pay for college, plus they could be bankrolled by outside scholarships or employers.

Maybe Zythe has something else in mind but I'm assuming it's the possibility that football will eventually end up in the Mountain West. If so, I'm not sure how the other sports staying in the BWC would work -- I always though Hawaii was only in the BWC because their travel situation is uniquely unworkable for anywhere else. NCAA might want us to keep as many revenue sports in the same conference as possible

Unreal. UCD seems to be on the fast track to becoming the Zaga of women's basketball. I really hope we don't lose Coach Gross soon.

I don't flat out hate the double font, but it looks like something under construction, just waiting for a graphic artist, or some university committee, to decide what to do to complete the block "Davis." Why not just continue the UC letters in the same font. (It would be copying the UCSB logo above, but you could ag-ify it by adding a stem of wheat underneath it, like the current Milwaukee Brewers logo.)

I am neutral on the "invader" font. Looks like someone took a nail clipper to the upper left corners of most of the letters.

I like the lemon, or comet, or Cleveland Indigenous Persons "CA."

I don't have a problem with the horsehead logo that the University launched with such hooplah a few years ago other than it is too busy. As Dr. Mike noted, it does not shrink well. Too much going on to put on shirt sleeves or ball caps.

These pretty much echo my sentiments, aside from that I'm even more lukewarm rather than negative on the double font logo. It's boring, but I think that's why they like it; very adaptable for signage and as part of department logos. I think anything with script or italics would look pretty out of place in some of the mundane situations in which the double font wordmark is currently used.

I like the horsehead, but I totally agree that it's just not feasible when it's small or from a distance. The lemon serves that purpose well enough.

I assumed student-athlete tutoring would be there, but actually I'm not sure how convenient that is compared to having it on campus or closer to the first-year housing.

I'm unconvinced at how many team offices would go in there. Team space took up two and a half floors at the somewhat comparable SDSU athletics center if I remember right -- that's a lot of real estate. Seems to me that football and lacross make a lot of sense at that location -- baseball, softball, and field hockey probably as well -- but I can't see how it would really add value to any of the sports that play on different parts of campus, aside from being close to the weights.

A Colorado State WR too, just now.

I'm thinking AggieFinn is right, we were delusional. You can be one of the most productive receivers in all of D1 with no obvious down sides but it doesn't mean anything if you're not in FBS, apparently.

In fairness to us though, I can't remember any projections that had him undrafted. It's not like we were ignoring evidence in front of us.