Back from last night's Cactus Bowl. A more entertaining game in person than it probably was on TV. We sat in the mostly K-State section, and the momentum shift favoring the Wildcats in the second was quite palpable. Jed Fisch, UCLA's OC/interim HC brought a great game plan that got UCLA a ten point lead going into halftime, but as has been a problem for UCLA all season, eventually the Bruin front seven wore out and ground-first team like K-State controlled the second half.
As the first time I've been to a KState game, their fans were great. More knowledgeable than the UCLA base, more into the game, and not at all arrogant.
As for the stadium, Chase field where the Diamondbacks play made for a better than expected venue. We had good seats between the 30s on the K-State side of the field, and attendance was high, but the biggest thing to overcome in playing a football game inside of a designed baseball stadium will always be how the seated fans see the field. Sitting on the home dugout side of the baseball field, the view of the home plate area was clear as the sight lines area designed as such, but it wasn't so clear when looking into the outfield where the football action took place and you have to look across the shallow seating of too many heads in the way to clearly see the outfield. Our section did a lot of standing. And there's also the issue of the seats being too offset from the sidelines, so that though the seats are low to the field, they are far away from it as well.