Hopefully they play as sloppy as they did last night

Players are going to be rolling back into their dorms at 7 am or so. Not a great way to start your Tuesday.

I'll be in Portland but taking my kid for a long hike instead of schlepping out to Hillsboro for the game in an empty high school stadium. I gave him one last chance to decide if he really wants to go to the game but he said he prefers the hike and then watching on tv.

Is there any particular deal for espn+? Cheapest I see $14 a month for the espn unlimited package. I recall it being cheaper last season

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

As someone who lived in downtown Portland and now visits regularly, I will dispute that downtown is "dangerous" but I guess that depends on what you compare it to. If you are used to urban areas and keep your normal wits about you, you will be fine. I can't imagine the violent crime rate against tourists or normal people going out to dinner is much above zero. Yes your car might get broken into if you park on the street but I don't know if the risk is higher there than other west coast cities. If you are used to quaint suburbs, yes some of the street people can be disturbing but 99.9% of the time they don't pay any attention to you.

Yes all of those. There are a lot of great things, there are also forlorn blocks with tents and sketchy looking characters. It is improving slowly since the depths of the covid abandonment.

Please leave the palm trees in socal. They are ugly, they don't provide any useful shade (which should be a priority everywhere around the stadium), they host rats and they periodically drop big heavy sharp fronds. All bad.

Those equestrian people are nuts. Move on!

The city owns it; it looks like the parent company of the Timbers operates it though. So you'd think/hope the city would figure out a way to have PSU stay there but I guess the actual operator has no such preference and apparently the city doesn't care enough to force it.

Providence Park is where they should be, but they have not been good enough to draw crowds large enough to fend off the Timbers taking over and they can't afford the rent now even if they could work around the soccer schedule.

I'm not so worried about the players; the Davis players will be more heat-adjusted than the PSU players. Just another reason I'm not particularly interested in attending in person.

May be hotter. 97 for their home opener last year. Only a touch cooler than Davis during summer heat waves, which can extend into early September.

going to be hot

I'm probably going to be in Portland but I don't think I can justify trekking out to Hillsboro to watch this game on the high school field in the heat. It's a shame they don't play downtown at Providence Park anymore.

Give Day football fundraising from across the causeway:

Football has raised $3,700 from 20 gifts!

When will this be promoted?

It's not a bad idea! Might as well do it for real

Full schedule for Sac:

Sacramento State
8.29 – at Eastern Michigan
9.5 – MVSU
9.12 – at Fresno State
9.19 – North Dakota State
9.26 – *UMass
10.10 – *at Bowling Green
10.17 – *Ohio
10.24 – *at Ball State
10.30 – *Kent State
11.4 – *Toledo
11.11 – *at Central Michigan
11.28 – at Hawaii

Good luck getting people excited for that home slate outside of NDSU

https://getsomemaction.com/news/2026/3/24/2026-mac-football-schedule-released.aspx

Sac announced their non-con schedule for 2026:

09/05 – Mississippi Valley State
09/12 – at Fresno State
09/19 – North Dakota State
11/28 – at Hawaii

NDSU at home is a coup, jealous of that at least. I assume our NDSU series will not happen now.

https://fbschedules.com/sacramento-state-unveils-2026-non-conference-football-schedule/