I think our win against Santa Barbara pretty much sealed the deal. Go Ags!

Well heck, I’ll be out of town.

8:00 start. Late drive home for me but what the heck!

Awesome! We'll be playing Irvine and a full house will certainly help motivate the team. The previous ESPN games in the Pavilion have been amazing and the crowd was electric. We took Irvine into OT in the first game before losing but I think we'll win this one.

I was there a couple years back for the OT win over Long Beach. That was a blast. Thursday night is a challenge for me, but I’ll try to make it

I’m bummed that it’s a Thursday night - if it was a Saturday night I would have likely made the trek from the South Bay with the eldest.

Hopefully the market the hell out of this game.

Thursday nights are basically impossible for me, but I'll be adding to those streaming numbers!

They need to get on the marketing right now...notify the sororities and fraternities and swamp the dorms with information. Pump this one up in the community too. Every one of the previous ESPN games in the Pavilion has been an awesome collegiate atmosphere.

Just picked up my two tickets to the game. Looks like some reserved seats still available on the visitors side. Hopefully the weather doesn't keep people away.

i have mine; section 109 behind the Irvine bench. thursday's forecast is cloudy but no rain. hope that's the case!

I'm behind you in 209. Looks like most of the reserved seats left are in 207-209. Hopefully a lot of students show up. Clubs, other teams, greek, dorms...get 'em all.

by the way, Les is on with Grant Napier at 5:30.

maybe we’ll hear a little more about tj. Or it’ll still be a day to day thing

they also announced a 'student tailgate' at the pavillion (inside?). cheap pizza, music. all around good time.

Anyone get a chance to listen to the Les interview on the Grant Napier show?

I missed it. It’s online somewhere so I may try and listen to it later.

Listened to Coach Les on the Napear show.

Started with the usual stuff - "peaking at the right time," . . . "Irvine is a good team," . . . the usual very high praise for UC Davis as an institution . . . loves getting the opportunity to display all of that positivity to a nationwide audience (via the ESPN game) . . . etc.

Napear brought up the Officer Corona shooting and asked Jim to reflect on that tragedy from a University perspective. Heartfelt comments from Coach Les. "What Davis showed me . . . adversity brought the community together."

Grant, nor Doug Christie, brought up TJ's health. And Jim didn't offer it up on his own.

Anyone have a guess on attendance? Hopefully it’s a big crowd!

Saw this posted :

‘UC Davis Athletics is proud to have UC Davis alum and Sacramento Kings Emcee, Katerina Kountouris host our ESPNU game this Thursday! Welcome back Kat’

She was great for football. Looking forward to the game!

As for TJ, I suspect that Jim Les didn't want to tip his hand one way or the other to avoid helping Irvine prepare. The other possibility is that TJ is still day to day and no one knows for sure. Wish I could get to the game. I've never attended a televised game at Davis live. At least, I'll get to watch it.

Great news on the Kat! She will be amazing and will provide the emotional pressure we need to put on UCI.

TJ looked like he was walking without the limp.

Fingers crossed!

+1 :up:

It looks like they've gone all out promoting the ESPN game. Great Job!