The best part was at the end, with the anchor saying "Aggie grad!"

As someone who follows both Cal and the Ags, I think he is right that both roll their rivals.

The one year we would benefit by beating Montana but the Grizz AD isn't there anymore.

When I was still working in the service industry, I so badly wanted to trash talk some Sac State fans but obviously didn't because the optics would have been bad.

Worst case if the 'Yotes are 4th and the Ags are 5th, it's a better match up than against the Dakota or Montana States. Plus the Dome will be rocking but that's probably easier to deal with than cold or snow? I also think the Ags can beat South Dakota.

Rooting for a 4th seed though.

2010 was the year it rained and a thunderstorm caused the evacuation of the stadium at halftime. I went to that game as a student and was drenched. The first half wasn't that wet.. Walked across campus in the thunderstorm and watched the rest from my fellowship's house.

They came back and won that game. Great revenge for the non call in 2009 when Chris Carter caught a pass that was a called out of bounds.

During the time when Sac went DI, how did we play them home and home despite being in a lower division? How did it work in 1993 (?) when the Ags were in the same conference as Sac but completed in DII and Sac in DI?

When did the Cal Poly Rivalry become a game of importance?

Sac State is like our Montana vs Montana State. We don't like each other. Sac is the "dumb" school which gets a lot of local attention because they are in Sacramento proper whereas we are about 20-30 mins west. UC's and CSU's are both public schools but there is a lot of institutional dislike between the two systems.

For basketball, the Big West Conference wanted to add UC San Diego but was blocked by the CSU members who forced the BIg West to take Bakersfield as a package deal. CSU and UCs have the same number of schools in that conference and don't want to be out numbered. Bakersfield is like Butte in terms of how people view it. No offense if you are from there btw.

UC Davis is the Ag school with a research focus and our student body is mostly from all over CA or even out of state. Sac State is the city school with a local service area of Sacramento, Yolo (Davis' county) plus Alpine, Amador, Colusa, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, Sierra,Solano, Sutter, and San Joaquin.

CSU's have to admit local HS and transfer kids who graduate or get AA/AS degrees from HS and community colleges in their service area whereas UC has no service area. Historically Sac is a commuter school (they do have dorms) and Davis is residential, much like Moscow, ID.

Sac has lower admission standards so they can get good players who don't qualify at Davis. Despite that, we own the all-time series with them, winning 2/3rds of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Classic

Cal Poly is more like a friendly rival. They are a CSU but have high standards and go after the same recruits and students that we do. They have an Ag focus but concentrate on technical instruction and have some of the best programs in forestry, architecture or engineering in CA, comparing well with UCs. We have been in the same conference longer and in all-sports but our rivalry is really football only unlike Sac's all-sports. Cal Poly, being isolated is a residential school. They are the mustangs which was our official animal until like a year or two ago.

Cal Poly hates Davis more than we do. When they lose to us, they don't get a team photo in their locker room. But still, they respect us and save their all-sports hate for UC Santa Barbara esp in soccer or hoops. We think of Cal Poly as that Cousin we want to beat but takes the same classes as you, has the same friends, etc. Sac is the polar opposite who has jock like vibes, slacks at school, and talks the talk despite being historically worse at athletics and academics. Cal Poly is our equal and the best CSU. Sac is a middling CSU with commuter students.

We work with Sac Students because they are in the same media market. Cal Poly grads have a shared focus with us but most probably move to Socal. They are 4 hours away and in a different media market.

Most Davis and Sac alums who don't follow sports tune in for the Causeway. Some show up for Cal Poly but the Causeway is the one game that was usually televised before the ESPN + / Pluto era. It is the one game that gets a lot of coverage in the Sac region despite being on the same weekend as the Big Game between Cal and Stanford (gets a lot of coverage in all Norcal markets).

Sac State also resents that we are Sacramento's UC and have our world renowned UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. We kind of resent that our campus has done a lot of focus on Sac rather than Davis especially playing at the Golden 1 Center for home games in basketball (Causeway Classic in hoops used to be the week of FB but the opposite team hosted) but we have to compete with Sac. We get a lot of favorable coverage in Sac in non sports but Sac gets a little better coverage in sports.

Sorry for the essay. I hate Sac way more but want to beat Poly also.

Beat Slack State! Beat Slack State! J Street Tech is going to be pumped up.

So great to hear a student write up! Excellent coverage and I'd love to hear your reports for a playoff game.

Are the FCS rankings out yet?

I would say that you gave the Ags more trouble than our loss to Cal.

Also being down 8 if they don't get the onside kick, is still better than 9 points because it looks better losing by 1 score.

I don't hate the decision to kick on the previous score, making it 30-22. The thinking is, it doesn't matter if you make it because you have to get the inside anyway. Whereas if they don't get the points on the previous TD, then it does not matter at all.

Vandals win 31-24.

I think they beat Sac but rivalry games are always scary. If they lose to Sac, what is the absolute worst case scenario for playoffs??? I am a doomer because it helps me see the bright side if that makes sense.

30-8 was embarrassing at home even though it was Montana State. That furious comeback was critical because you know they will be primed for the playoffs.

It's also possible some of the east coast voters just see the score and assumed it was close (which it was).

13k something they said.

Any chance they stay the same or do you think they will drop to 5 or 6?