Except from the Sac Bee article about the Sac @ SDSU game:

And this is no casual kickoff as Sacramento State does not resemble last season’s squad. This is a revamped team with 73 new players and a new coaching staff except for offensive line coach mainstay Kris Richardson. The school’s recruiting class was ranked the best in the FCS by multiple rankings services, and the overall haul includes 27 incoming freshmen, 10 junior college transfers and 37 four-year transfers via the transfer portal.

The host Jackrabbits have plenty to play for and prove, too, having won FCS national championships in 2022 and 2023. South Dakota State can relate to a new coaching staff and a roster full of new players. Jimmy Rogers after last season left to coach at Washington State, replaced by former Jackrabbits player Dan Jackson.

The entire coaching staff also headed to WSU, as did 16 South Dakota State players via transfer. Twenty-one players left the program overall, which happens when there is coaching turnover. So this sizes up to be something of the “Great Unknown Bowl,” pitting programs with new faces trying to get on the same page in a hurry.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article311870924.html#storylink=cpy

Throwing out the individual stats makes no sense to me at all. Losing these individual stats could possibly be the difference for some players getting post-season awards and honors and/or school records at the end of the season. The players on both teams got cheated by this asinine rule. Their individual stats should count.

I think having no winner or loser is fair to both teams in a game that was not finished. I also think it would be fair for the game to be officially posted in the schedule for both teams showing the score and time left when the game was stopped and leave it at that. Nothing goes in the win or loss column but at least there is some information available about the status of the game at the time it was halted. So the Aggie schedule, for example, would be "game suspended due to weather at 7:46 of the 4th quarter with Davis ahead 23-17."

Love it!

Geez, Mike, what kind of prices are the Champion Club "padded seats" going for?

i hope the more aggressive prices don’t backfire on them by decreasing attendance. — agalum

I was thinking the same thing. These prices will definitely be too much for some fans. Expensive tickets may not generate more revenue if they keep people away. I'd rather have cheaper prices and, hopefully, build a bigger fan base with the increased competition and excitement of the MWC teams coming to town. Then raise the ticket prices once the fan base has grown significantly.

I think that this big jump in ticket prices must be due to an effort by the Athletics Department to try and generate significantly more revenue. Aggie Athletics will need more money if we are going to continue to grow football and also be competitive in all the other sports that will be in the MWC net year.

Last year there were 14 home games and our season tickets were $275 each. This year there are 16 home games and season tickets are $450. So, last year the price for was $17.86 per game and this year it is $28.13 per game. That's a 57.5% increase.

Does mean I have to switch my seats to stay behind the home team bench. — DrMike

My wife and I have been in the same section that you are in. I guess we'll need to move our seats when we renew our tickets otherwise we'll be sitting behind the visiting teams with their fans if I'm understanding this correctly.

All the stats have been officially wiped out so there will be no individual or team statistics for the game. It's as if the game was never played.

Deleted...Riveraggie and I posted at presser video at the same time.

Impressive coach and players. Very similar to Plough and the Aggie players: bright, articulate and humble. Who knows, we could possibly meet them again in the playoffs if both teams manage get in.

From Bob Dunning's Substack article: "Montgomery, Alabama is a city that doesn't hide from its difficult past"

I noted above that I came to Montgomery to cover a college football game, but you should know that every UC Davis football player who made this trip - all 78 of them - spent the better part of Friday afternoon before Saturday's contest not studying the game plan or running practice drills, but paying rapt attention as they toured Montgomery's Rosa Parks Museum.

This is indeed the UC Davis way.

Four years ago before a game in Tulsa, the team toured that city's Greenwood Rising Museum that recounted the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre that killed hundreds and destroyed what was then known as the Black Wall Street.

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/montgomery-alabama-is-a-city-that?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=171848134&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

I noticed that as well...

The ESPN announcers said that the defensive player did something on that partially blocked FG that was illegal and should have been a penalty.

Mercer really dialed up the defensive pressure in the second half and we struggled with it and we came up empty on the 2 failed FG attempts and that hurt. As you said, Pinnick will get better and we certainly saw that he can make something out of nothing when a play breaks down. He's getting a baptism by fire playing against Mercer and Washington in his first 3 games so he'll certainly be battle tested by the time conference play starts. I hope the team takes their frustrations out on Utah Tech next Saturday.

From the Sacramento Bee article about the game:

Redshirt freshman quarterback Caden Pinnick, the pride of Del Oro High School in Placer County, dazzled in his Aggies debut after earning the job with a strong showing in the spring and in fall camp.

He completed his first nine passes in the first half as UCD stormed to a 21-3 lead. Pinnick passed for 141 yards and a touchdown, and he rushed for 62 yards on 15 carries and a score. Jordan Fisher led UCD with 84 yards rushing on eight carries, an average of 10.5 yards a carry.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/sports/college/article311826951.html#storylink=cpy

I agree. If our lead would have been "insurmountable" then maybe the AD's would have agreed to give the Ags a win. The Ags won the first half but were losing the second half and Mercer was driving. They had all the momentum and the Ags were scrambling to hang on. We'll never know how it may have ended if the lightning hadn't interfered though.

From Bob Dunning's Substack article about the game:

According to UC Davis Athletic Director Rocko DeLuca, “The decision was made jointly by the two athletic directors after much discussion.

“It is possible late in the game to declare one team as the victor, but given that it was a one-score game and Mercer had the ball near midfield, that wasn’t going to happen.”

DeLuca added, “It’s a disappointing outcome for everybody to come all this way and not have a final decision. But on the positive side, we saw some really great plays and some emerging stars. Everybody is disappointed with the decision, but it’s been made and there’s a lot of football yet to be played.”

https://www.thewaryone.com/p/mother-nature-has-final-say-as-aggie?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2582284&post_id=171783099&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=31ratq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

This No Contest could hurt both teams come playoff selection time.