Just to clarify, for football (and I think basketball too) you already have to do an online checkout process to claim student tickets. They coach students through it at Orientation.

The "show ID" days have pretty much passed for the marquee sports, though frankly bringing that back with a paper ticket allotment to hand out at a table at the MU or something may have been the answer here.

I think the issue overall this weekend might have been confusion/lack of clarity about whether the normal student ticket URL was the one you used, or the general ticketing website using a promo code, or some other student ticket redemption process that us non-students were never pinged about.

I was actually looking for info on that to post on reddit the morning of the game and couldn't find it in 3-5 mins. Couldn't tell if it was because the offer was only posted a week ago and already buried in socials, or links/posts were pulled from insta once allotments were filled, etc, or if there was never a dedicated student offer and you just had to grab a free ticket from the same promo code general fans were emailed.

I suspect some students would give up too after about that amount of searching

First official reference to the existence of Bossy Cow Cow in a decade!

We are so back

They’re still free but you can’t just flash the card at the gate anymore, you have to claim it online in advance. I think that’s for better attendance tracking purposes but forget the details.

Haven’t yet seen how they’re handling it this year for playoffs

Ginormous. Same with some of the late game decisions vs Idaho.

Ags were 3-1 in one possession games if I count right and I’m not sure we would still be top 8 if any of them went the other way

Looks like NDSU scored another TD but highly questionable the RB got across the lane imo

I think we’re en route to the two worst outcomes of this game, which is a USD win or close loss. We need one of these teams to explode for 3+ TDs here

I believe this was the biggest non-Orientation crowd ever for the stadium and puts this season in the driver seat to be the best attended in school history. Vibes of that 2013 ESPN basketball game where like 6,000 people saw the Ags almost knock off Long Beach -- even a close loss there arguably started some special in terms of attendance and home advantage.

Definitely glad the student section was rocking and (much of it) stayed to see the comeback. That's hopefully the kind of story that spreads by word of mouth more than the final score.

Stunning performance. UCSB was undefeated at home in that very impressive soccer stadium in 2024

Aggies up 1-0 on a Goodman score!

I think ASUCD or some other institutional sponsor bought some amount of student tickets, I found a press release saying students were able to manually pick up tickets with their IDs.

I would hope a deal is being worked on with ASUCD, UC Davis Health, or like UCU/Pepsi/WestVillage to subsidize again (and hopefully digital tickets).

Pretty much anything is better than playing prime EWU on the red field in quarters -- hosting Nova than Mercer will be tough but a much more doable path to the semis than the 2018 run

Can they retroactively declare a redshirt year? Perez had what looks to be a single touch in 2021 which normally would be a sign that a freshman was redshirting -- I don't know if they would have had to make that determination during the season though

Wow, Plough is basically going to have to rebuild the entire pass game next year around Gbatu, Dobbins, Williams, and Simpson

Actually feel better about the run game even without LL because Fisher is so explosive

Someone on the FCS Fans facebook group challenged me about Davis's resume against .500+ teams which draws some interesting comparisons:

MSU: 3-0 vs even/winning teams (home games noted), #6 (H), #37, and #39 (H) in Massey. New Mexico probably would be winning in the FCS (Massey would slot them in as the #9 FCS school behind Montana) so maybe we can say 4-0.

Davis: 3-1 vs even/winning teams: #6 (H), #8, #27 in Massey. FBS loss.

MSU might be in its own tier but in terms of FCS record it hasn't actually demonstrated that yet; folks are giving them credit for an unblemished record, FBS win, and crazy margins of victory (fair, I get it).

How was the playoff atmosphere/mindset different than the regular season? What would be his advice to Hastings and the rest of the Aggies to prepare themselves for a likely first game at home and difficult road game(s) if they advance?

Also, Plough and staff have me totally believing now. It’s like the different eras of Aggie football (Biggs/D1 transition, Sochor legacy, Hawkins rebirth) all kinda got packaged into this next-generation juggernaut.

Relatedly, playcalling creativity seems to have returned to the Hawkins-era Shredville offense (trickery, wildcat, sweeps, etc). Over on Egriz they were pretty jealous of UCD’s system

I’d call this the biggest win of the Plough era and 2nd or 3rd biggest of the post Biggs era (after Tulsa and maybe 2018 Montana)

Stanford win is on a different level though imo

you know technically this is a Pac-12 After Dark game

If I remember right from that 2018 comeback game in Missoula, the Ags switched to silent counts in the second half with the center doing hand signals to ready everyone — and if they needed to audible Jake and Keelan would go right up to the line and shout in peoples ears.

Crazy stuff