On fourth-and-11, McGough was ready to punt with just under 10 minutes to play, saw a rush coming his way and then took off for a 20-yard gain that led to O’Hara’s last score. “It was not a planned fake,” Taylor said with a laugh. “I wasn’t looking, and I turn and my Australian punter is running with the ball. When he first practiced fakes, he held the ball but didn’t have his hand over the point of the ball. He’s gotten better with that.” Said Dunniway, “You see what he can do in practice and think, ‘That’d be cool’ if he did it in a game,’ and I look over and the dude is running for 30 yards. We really needed it.”
On going 11-0:
“To go 11-0, that’s not easy, but these guys continue to work, to stay focused,” Taylor said. “They don’t look in the rear-view mirror, don’t look too far ahead, and that’s easy to say, but not easy to do. What they’ve done since we’ve been here, especially this year, is really quite remarkable.”
Regarding how physical the Sac defense hits:
“It’s a ruthless thing — fly to the ball,” is how Bailey described his game and that of his defense. Said Dunniway of some of Bailey’s hits, “I was watching the video board and thought, “If someone hit me like that ... I don’t know what I’d do. We have Ash making highlights, guys on defense, it’s fun to watch.”
Regarding the crowd of 23,073:
Unbelievable crowd today,” Taylor said. “It’s what I imagine we could have here.”
Hawkins:
“I told our guys we’re a playoff team,” he said. “You never want to turn in gear. It’s a sad thing when you do.”
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“It was a great game. A great battle between two great teams, but they made more plays than we did,” said Aggie head coach Dan Hawkins.
“I told our guys afterward I love them. I love them a lot. But most games and most seasons are made by a few plays that decide which side of the ledger you’ll end up on.”
“We’re definitely a playoff team, but I don’t know if we’ll get there,” Hawkins said
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“That’s all out of our control. We may be the No. 5 team in the nation and we played the top four, but you have to prove it on the field.”
Asked if UC Davis should receive a playoff opportunity, Sacramento State head coach Troy Taylor didn’t hesitate
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“Absolutely,” he said. “No question about it. If you look at their body of work, they should be included. It would have been easy for them to schedule three easy games to start the season, but they didn’t do that. They didn’t have to play Cal and South Dakota State to start the season. They should not be punished for playing a tough schedule.”
“That’s a really good football team we played,” said Taylor, who was gracious in victory.
“They were very poised and playing with a lot of swagger and confidence. We’d get ahead and they’d just come back and continue to compete. Davis had been lighting people up recently, scoring an incredible amount of points. I was really proud of how our defense was able to hold them to 21 points.”
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