Series history between the Aggies and the Jacks:

THE SERIES: Saturday's game will mark the eighth meeting between South Dakota State and UC Davis on the football field. SDSU leads the all-time series, 5-2, on the strength of winning each of the last four meetings and although there have been only seven previous games between the Jackrabbits and Aggies there is plenty of interesting history between the two programs.

The two programs first met in 1997, during the schools' NCAA Division II era and in what was John Stiegelmeier's first game as head coach of the Jackrabbits. SDSU came away with a 17-7 road win in that first contest on Sept. 13, 1997.

As the two schools made the leap to NCAA Division I and the FCS ranks, both were charter members of the Great West Football Conference, which began play in 2004. SDSU's first-ever game as a D-I program was at UC Davis on Sept. 9 of that year, but that matchup did not go well for the Jackrabbits, who were drubbed 52-0. The Aggies scored 24 first-quarter points and led 38-0 at the half.

South Dakota State won each of the last three games between the two programs as Great West foes and added a 12-8 home victory at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium on Sept. 15, 2012. Zach Zenner rushed for both Jackrabbit touchdowns (61, 23 yards) and linebacker T.J. Lally recorded four sacks to spearhead a stingy SDSU defense.

Each of the last four matchups have been decided by seven points or less.

SDSU and UC Davis are scheduled to play again on Sept. 10, 2022, in Brookings.

Excellent write up about the game and the Jacks here:
https://gojacks.com/news/2021/11/24/football-jacks-host-uc-davis-to-open-playoffs.aspx

The Jacks' OL is similar in size to EWU and we had no pass rush against Barriere. He sat in the pocket forever against us waiting for someone to get open. Here's what the Aggie DL will be up against:

LT Aron Johnson 6'6 300
LG Mason McCormick 6'4 310
C Wes Genant 6'4 300
RG Egan Lickiss 6'4 310
RT Garret Greenfield 6'6 295

This game will get out of hand early and fast if the Aggie offense can't move the ball and the defense gets worn down by the Jacks. They have a big OL and a bruising RB and they will wear out our defense. We'll need to play our best game of the year and have a few breaks go our way to have chance at winning. They just might be the best team we've played all season.

We've now lost 3 straight to the Hornets at the Golden 1 Center...not good!

We just had a awful first half and dug ourselves too big a hole. We had a bunch of TO's, blew several layups, couldn't buy a basket from the perimeter, got beat on defense over and over...it was a forgettable half of basketball. I'm not sure why we were so out of sync on both ends of the floor and I hope that isn't an omen of what the season is going to be like this year. We "won" the second half but it was too little, too late.

Pepper put the team on his back in the final ten minutes and you could tell he was frustrated. He plays hard every minute he's in the game. It was nice to see Cameron Ba getting minutes. Hopefully, he'll help us from 3 because we can pretty much can't buy a 3. We were only 4-17 tonight and are only shooting 26% from downtown for the season. Kane Milling looks like he's starting to be more comfortable in the offense and we need his offense.

I hate losing to Sac but we need to put this one behind us and get better. The season is still young.

I know! He's got it out for the Ags for some reason over on AGS....like he knows a whole lot about Big Sky football since his team is Delaware. I was going to respond but it's not worth the time and effort...

I’m at the game and this is really, really ugly…

I didn't think we played particularly poorly on defense in the first half against Pepperdine. They were just on fire. They were hitting everything they put up: 67% overall and 72% from 3. Many of those shots were contested and they still drained them.

We stepped up the defensive intensity in the second half and that got us back into the game but then they hit a two tough shots in the final minute that did us in.

I think we have played pretty good defense so far which is typical for Jim Les teams but the offense is a work in progress. The upside on offense has been the interior play of Anigwe which is something we having been missing for a while. However, the scoring has been concentrated among Anigwe, Pepper and Manjon and we aren't getting much help from anyone else.

Our perimeter shooting has not been very good either and we need that to be successful. Fuller is playing a lot of minutes but is in a shooting slump. Hopefully, he'll break out pretty soon.

Our opponents will continue to clog up the middle as long as we can't show we are more dangerous from the outside. Teams have been making it very difficult for Manjon to drive inside and he's having to rely more on his jump shooting.

That run and gun offense used by their previous coach is gone. They weren't very successful with it and that's probably why they had a coaching change.

Nice. Tickets are included for season ticket holders also.

Parking is pricey depending upon how close you want to get to the Golden 1 Center. If you're ok walking .4 mile you can get a parking permit for $5-11. Otherwise, closer parking is $20-25.

https://www.parkwhiz.com/golden-1-center-parking/uc-davis-vs-sacramento-state-1151044/?seller_id=2402%2C2403%2C2345%2C2371%2C2372%2C2373%2C2374%2C2377%2C5964

The Ags are ranked #16 in the final AFCA FCS Coaches Poll. Click on the image to enlarge it.

#5 Montana
#6 EWU
#9 Montana State
#11 SDSU
#12 Sac State
#16 UC Davis

The FCS fans over on the anygivenday forum are voting overwhelmingly that SDSU will beat the Ags. Out of 48 votes, only 4 are for the Aggies and a lot of the talk is that the Ags have been "exposed and will get rolled." I'm not surprised that they see the Aggies having a less than 10% chance of a win.

https://www.anygivensaturday.com/showthread.php?288163-2021-Fall-Playoffs-Round-1-UC-Davis-South-Dakota-State

Unfortunately, I think you're right.

Utah State is now 4-1 with their only loss coming from the Ags. They've won 4 straight:

84-74 over Richmond
87-79 over Penn in 2 OT
85-58 over New Mexico State
73-70 over Oklahoma

It's still under construction. It's slated for completion in August, 2022.



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Right you are, Toke:

UCSB 81 Chicago State 50
CSUN 79 Dixie State 73
Riverside 95 Bethesda 57
Irvine 82 Pepperdine 48
UCSD 71 Sac State 56

The Sagarin and Massey ratings both have SDSU at #2 overall. This is a very tough draw for the Ags. The Jackrabbits could easily run through us and Sac.

Tale of the tape and stat rankings (click the image to enlarge):