Despite not being able to host large scale events for a full year and not allowing more than 10,000 fans in the gates until the second home game on Oct. 2, UC Davis' entire season attendance net 11,000 more fans than 2019. The Causeway Classic on Nov. 20 saw a stadium record for attendance and average attendance over five home games surpassed 10,000 spectators.

All of that turnout translated to a 29 percent increase in revenue over the 2019 season, including two record-setting single game revenue marks in homecoming on Oct. 16 and the Causeway Classic.

"I hope it reflects our commitment to doing things in a first-class manner and at the highest level we can," Shank said. "We were knocking on the door of having over capacity attendance which has never happened here before, with the highest revenue that's ever happened. We did a lot of things outside of the box in a creative way. Our goal is to continue to find ways to raise that bar, which is certainly not going to be easy so we're starting work on next year now."