Program held an open summer workout today for some supporters (not sure how I made the cut). NCAA limits them to 1 hour on the court, 4 days a week. They follow that with weights and then summer school. 14 guys practiced today - the transfer from CSUN is getting his certificate tomorrow from the school, and will be allowed to practice after that.

lots of very spirited one-on-one, two-on-two, three-on-two drills on both defense and offense. Stokes really looks much stronger this year, and his jumper is much improved. Chappell looks bigger, and still has the smooth stroke. Omer's game took another jump!

Hard to get a read on the new guys except that we are MUCH bigger and MUCH longer than in the past. The big guys all can run, and most have nice shots - modern players. Noble does NOT look or play like a freshman. He's a real physical presence.

Game times are still TBA, and sounds like that won't change for a few weeks.

legit question - how is the big sky accepting to PSU playing in such an odd stadium? I'm not trying to be rude but the difference in investment between them and other big sky teams seems like something the conference would want to fix...

Looking at the list, makes me NOT want to make the jump up to FBS until we are really, really, really ready with respect to facilities, fan support, players, and money. Feels like we just got to the top level of FCS and I would like to enjoy it for a few years.

Sac State was somewhat correct when they stated "FBS or Bust." For them, my guess is that it will be FBS AND Bust."

NY Times/The Athletic has a preseason rating for all 138 FBS teams. Sac at #137, fellow MAC team U Mass at 138. Nowhere to go but up.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7529675/2026/08/24/college-football-team-rankings-fbs-preseason-138/


USAToday has them at 133;
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2026/08/24/college-football-rankings-re-rank-preseason-all-fbs-teams-138/91273993007/

What a solid football player. So versatile and willing to do whatever. Great dude for young players to emulate.

Fortunately for everyone attending, the weather looks perfect - 70s instead of the 90s I feared

Man I'm so pumped college football is back! Let's put a whooping on the Viks this week! Ticket sales are still looking abysmal for PSU. They have entire sections without a seat sold in them. Ags going to have to prepare for a low energy affair.

Poly leads the Ags 2-0 at the half. Poly scored on two easy goals and the Ags misfired on their two best chances they had in the half. However, with 20 seconds to go in the half a Poly player got a yellow card which was reviewed on video by the referee and he changed the call to a red card on the Poly player and a yellow on the Aggie player so Poly is down to 10 for the second half.

I'm watching the game on the MW+ network and it is excellent...much, much better than what we've gotten used to seeing on ESPN+ especially the camera work and replays. Sound quality is excellent also.