71st Causeway Classic: UC Davis vs. Sac State cross pollination helps establish where the conferences are in relation to each other before the playoffs — fugawe09
This. I'd never heard of Mercer, and I'm guessing most of the South has never heard of Davis. To have that game be nationally televised, then to also have those two teams ranked in the top ten with a possible rematch makes things exciting. Good/bad, right/wrong, people spent this season talking about Davis and Mercer and the game that never happened.