"Bossy Cow Cow" should be a footnote, and a small one at that, in Aggie lore. It was a derivation of the mother campus' "Oski Wow Wow." I didn't mind other bovine images such as graphics, etc. Really liked the antique traction engine at Toomey. Then again I was born in the Midwest and probably lack the cultural upbringing of today's student body....

Years ago I actually wrote a letter to Sports Illustrated after they referred to us as the Mustangs. I received a nice written reply pointing out that there was some sort of style manual that listed the team as the Mustangs. As I recall in the 80s or 90s the administration was making an effort to remove the agricultural image in any shape or form. Pushing the name Mustangs, trying to get rid of horse and especially cow images....

Poly had ONE pass completion.

https://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article219631405.html

A couple of notes on the Bee's declining coverage, or what passes therefor:
1. The game was at Sac, within a few miles of the Bee's office, yet the Bee purchases an AP account of the game.
2. This was on the website. Nothing in the print edition. (I have not checked the print/pdf "Extra" section yet.)
3. The article refers to Poly as the "Aggies."
4. Nothing on the website or the print edtion about the UCD game.

It's a trick. School can now revoke a scholarship by claiming the athlete failed to meet "elgibility" requirements.

On a serious note, I have no reason to doubt that this is in fact from the school. Wish I did. With the changing fonts, random capitalization, grammatical errors, scripted "signature"....it reminds me more of the letters I get inviting me to a "free" meal where I can learn about how I will benefit by buying reverse mortgages, time-shares or annuities.

I think this is fake news planted by a foreign government's hacking operations to bring discredit to UCD and its athletic program. Elections are one thing, but this is Aggie football, baby!

Ags defeated Slack 2-1 in OT in mens' soccer. Running score is now UCD 12.5, Slack 0.

Next up is the men's soccer rematch on October 27 at Slack.

UC Davis 44, Idaho 21
Montana 41, Sac 34
Eastern Washington 70, Cal Poly 17
Idaho State 25, North Dakota 21
Montana State 43, Portland State 23
Northern Arizona 31, Southern Utah 23
Weber State 45, Northern Colorado 28

It's still a great rally, and worth watching more than once. Beats what passes for regulalry scheduled programming on most channels.

Just stumbled across this thread. Good news as to both, but also a comment on the shrinking staffs at the Enterprise and newspapers in general. Same might be said about Joe Davidson at the Bee. He's doing more college stuff, but some of that is because the Bee pretty much canned the rest of the staff around him.

(Kind of like what I tell people who question why UCD left DII....maybe not so much UCD leaving DII as DII leaving schools like Davis.)

I digress. You do that at this age.

I think it was Aggies, but the ones from New Mexico State. In the upper left hand corner is a partial scoreboard with the letters ""...SU."

Scroll to the bottom of this recap of the New Mexico State match in a tournament (The Wildcat Classic) at Arizona on the UA website with the same video, but with the full scoreboard and a note in the text about the rally. https://arizonawildcats.com/news/2018/9/14/volleyball-recap-091418.aspx

The print edition (and thereby the pdf-esque e-edition) has the Aggie game on the front page of the Sports secion and Slack in a small column on page 3. I'm sure the Davis game only made the front page because it was an early game at 'furd, and since no Kings player is currently making the news because one of the cup holders in his car is chipped. Both the Davis and Slack games were on the road so the Bee had no writers on scene and instead used AP wire service reports. Do they even have sports reporters to send to home games? Maybe they can cover home games like they covered Fourth of July fireworks and State Fair foods,....by sending interns. "Please ReadLocal, even if we no longer WriteLocal."

A couple of message boards for the Idaho Vandals as they return to the Big Sky for football:

https://247sports.com/college/idaho/Board/ - Football is on the first board, titled "All Vandals"

https://sportshoop.la/forums/idaho-vandals.62/

If you're going to have a red-eye, better on a Friday night after the game.

Thanks, and nice win for the Mustangs.

Wonder what the travel arrangements were for USD at Harvard and Brown at Cal Poly on Friday. I think some of these FCS teams travel cross-country on game day or take red-eye plane flights to save hotel costs. Didn't Davis do something like that a few years ago when they played Northeastern, and Iona do something like that when they flew out here.

Then again I may be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.

So I guess the UC Davis Ahwahnees is out of the question, too.

I had a friend who attended the Junior University at about that time. He favored "Robber Barons." In his words, cardinal isn't even a color, it's a "hue."

On a barely related note, the present day Arizona Cardinals acquired their nickname when, then known as the Racine, (IL) Normals, the team owner purchased old uniforms from the University of Chicago. He dubbed the color, "cardinal red," and the nickname was born. http://mentalfloss.com/article/25650/whats-nickname-origins-all-32-nfl-team-names
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals

Meanwhile the Bee is promoting a sports only digital newsletter:
https://www.sacbee.com/sports/article218293050.html
I only read this twice, but one word I haven't found yet is "college."

The thing I don't like about "Cal Davis" is that it sounds like someone's name rather than a school. I hear Cal Davis and I think Cal Worthington....(and his dog, Spot.) UC Davis is fine. Love the throw back logo. Even have a couple of caps with it. I am not a real baseball historian, but someone once compared it to the hat worn by the Chicago American Giants of the Negro Leagues. I like it better on the caps than the horse in a horse-shoe logo.

Wall Street Journal runs a similar poll. UCD is #41 overall and #5 in their public college listings.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/public-schools-make-gains-in-wsj-the-college-rankings-1536188663?mod=ig_collegerankings2019