It's a pain to edit stuff on my mobile device so I'm having to reply to myself like some kind of narcissist.

Would definitely like to see the WCC broken up. All those schools have in common is that they are super-expensive private institutions with church affiliations, and not even the same church. If their aim is to only play like-minded schools then why don't they include Seattle U ? Surely the Redhawks would rather play Gonzaga and other West Coast schools instead of teams from Utah and Texas ? And if religion is at all a factor, then why do they deign to play all of the "unenlightened" public schools ? I think religion is not a factor but money definitely is. I think if God were to look at their tuitions even he would declare them ungodly.

I have confirmed via their website that Logan Denholm is playing for Sac State now. This was only made possible by COVID-19.

Cal Baptist is playing a series up there March 5-7. Those are the only games I have seen scheduled for UC Davis with so few schedules released.

The Big West is playing four game series this year instead of the usual three game series. DH's every Sat, still TBD if both games will be 7 innings on Sat or if one game will be 9 innings and the other game will be 7 innings on Sat.

I saw the Cal Baptist games too. I think even now UCD is trying to finalize a schedule :

https://collegebaseballinsider.com/open-dates/2021-open-dates/&ved=2ahUKEwjrlfSU-cHuAhXMITQIHUYqBosQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0TpZUBOhRZaWsMKX97qa8i

Even as of 1/16 they were still looking for games, saying they must be in CA this year. That puts a real limit on the teams they can play on the road, so at least one of those weekends may just stay vacant. Wonder how that will work with Hawaii ? This year would've been UCD's year to visit them. Perhaps they will either make that the 1 exception or the Big West will simply roll out last year's schedule that wasn't played and work in CSUB and UCSD into teams' open weekends + start a week earlier ?

that url should be

https://collegebaseballinsider.com/open-dates/2021-open-dates/

A couple of interesting updates. The Aggies are hosting Washington State for 4 opening week (2/19-2/21). In a real surprise Pepperdine will be visiting for 3 the weekend after Cal Baptist. It'll be split over just two days (3/12-13).

Update- 2/28-3/1 Portland comes in for 3. I believe that wraps up the first 4 weeks. That also will likely mean the sum total of their non-conference games because they have 40 games against 10 conference teams after that.

It's now up on the website. They also added a 3 game (over 2 weeks) home series against San Jose State during what would be their conference bye week. The Pepperdine series is now 4 games. Only out of state trip is Hawaii. It is split evenly with 5 home BWC and 5 on the road but interestingly CSUB and UCSD are both on the road, so there had to be some shifting. UCD usually (in my memory) doesn't play Cal Poly and Irvine at home the same year it hosts Fullerton and UCR.

As to the series structure it is 4 games on the weekend with Saturday double-headers, as Fullertonbaseballfan has indicated.

I like this new structure and hope it sticks. Grouping the games for the week into one series will force teams to avoid abusing their favorite relief arms, whom they know can't go 4 games in a row or twice in the same day without risking severe injury. No throwing starters out on a Tuesday to try to close out games. There's also built-in rest of at least 4 days for everyone after Sunday games are concluded.

If the double-header games are both 7 innings that would be even better. This, and the other changes would seem to level the playing field a bit for UCD. They'll have to come up with a fourth starter but so will all the other teams. Many D-I schools aren't 4 or even 3 strong starters deep, so that Sunday game is a true wild card. That's an extra chance not to get swept. Of course teams don't necessarily have to pitch their weakest starter on Sunday with the DH's.

Also, 7 inning games in doubleheaders would favor the Aggies a bit. Typically their best pitchers are in the rotation already, except for the closer, who is typically the guy who would start if they played 1 more game per weekend series. The rest of the bullpen is an adventure typically. Win or lose, the less they have to go to the bullpen the better. Blowouts will be over more quickly.

18 Home games to start the season? That's pretty nice.

I read in the Davis Enterprise they were supposed to visit UOP and Loyola Marymount after the series with the cougars. I believe there might have been a scheduling conflict with Pacific and LA- forget about it. And no resumption of the Northern Colorado series so,

No Lions and Tigers, and Bears...oh my !