Big win 2-1, pitching staff dominated (didn't allow a baserunner after the 4th), C Evan Gentil went 3-3 with 2 2B's, 1 1B, and a BB. Zach Story doubled in Elijah Mcneal (who got his first career hit after just missing a homer that went foul). 2-way player Keenan Anzai went 2 strong hitless innings with 4 K's and Rowen Barnes came in and shut the door in the 9th.

Personal Batter of the Game: Evan Gentil
Personal Pitcher of the Game: Keenan Anzai

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the wild card is that sports media rights are overvalued. For Disney and Comcast it was palatable to overpay because the cable bundle extracted sports viewer fees from people who didn’t watch sports. At present, Disney and Comcast are still willing to overpay to drive viewers to their streaming platforms relative to Netflix and at the same time Google, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple are sitting on mountains of cash willing to bid up prices as loss leaders for their streaming businesses. The leagues would like to fragment media rights so much that you need cable-by-any-other-name like YoutubeTV to put it back together in a bundle where non-sports viewers subsidize sports once again. But if Disney exits or the tech bros decide not to overpay anymore, rights may collapse to their actual value. The networks probably still overpay in 2027, but 5 years after that who knows. All the talk of media market size is kind of irrelevant. There are smaller markets with more football interest than Sac area.

I don’t understand why they don’t have a page for direct donations for the stadium.

Aggie Ascent has a website, https://aggieascent.ucdavis.edu/vision, but i personally have not seen any solicitations for donations. Maybe they’re still in the bid mode with contractors.

are still in the fundraising stage and are working on securing funds. We will send an updated timeline once the project funding has been secured” — Jdur

This is what I was saying.....we 'ain't building nothin' yet. They've only just asked us to pay for it.

Sac and Davis are doing the same thing.....Sac is just pretending super hard.

Good points. Not sure I see a world where Northwestern or the Gophers are kicked out of the Big10, for example, but you raise some very interesting questions. What Tim said is true about Stanford and Cal being highly competitive recently, and Rutgers has had some admirable seasons as well. Rice would finish middle of the pack in the Big Sky and I forgot UConn had a football team (kidding). It will be very interesting to see what college football does with those programs that traditionally struggle but are affiliated with power conferences for the dough

Be lucky to see Club boxes by 2028 season...

Got answers back from campus design and construction as well as the athletic department. Basically summarized as this “thanks for reaching out, the stadium upgrades at UCDHS are still in the fundraising stage and are working on securing funds. We will send an updated timeline once the project funding has been secured”.

Perhaps someone will shock the world at the wine fundraiser but it sounds like donations are still needed.

he was at first two games this season - he lives in Virginia so planned a trip out here to deal with estate issues around those games. He’s coming for wine event.

Thanks for the history lesson on the Aggie-Pack rivalry, I love that stuff! 12k+ in the Toom must have been magical.

I appreciate rivalries so I vote 'no' on the Sac rivalry going away. When it comes back, the landscape of college football will be different and the playing field should be comparable unless they find a way to continue to print money to fund their program.

The Sac market component is overstated in my opinion. A team's success, the opponent, and the promotion of the game will continue to drive attendance, and there are alums from both schools in the market. So will geographic proximity for an opponent, and that is what is going to suck for Sac playing in the MAC. MAC attendance is mostly awful, and MAC @ Sac games will draw poorly unless they're able to promote the heck out of it and maybe schedule Lil' Yachty 2 some Saturday night against Kent State. They jumped to the MAC to save face and as a place holder. Probably won't be there in 2028.

Moving to the Mountain West might bump UC Davis attendance some (with stadium expansion, "better competition", new/renewed regional opponents, etc.), but the average MWC attendance minus the new Pac 12 programs was 19,969. The Ags averaged 12,991 (questionable accounting) in 2025, while Sparta and Hawaii averaged just south of 14k per game. Sac lists an average of 15k and some change. I think the weekly 13-15,000 average attendance is about where we'll land once we move to FBS and make the stadium upgrades.

There is still room for Causeway, even with the Hornets in FBS. UCD should be going there next anyway since we hosted in '25, and Sac should pay the same guarantee they pay the other FCS opponents they're hosting when it happens. The next game in Davis will take some negotiating as FBS teams typically don't travel to an FCS host, but there can always be an exception, especially when playing for a chunk of concrete with Tim Plough's lips smeared on it after grinding out another dub. I would much rather see the Ags playing Sac than Stetson or USD.

he’s at UCSB. Started at St Mary’s, then UCONN, now a Gaucho.

I don’t think any long time rivalries like James Madison - William and Mary have survived one school moving up. I’m guessing NDSU-SDSU is no longer and that’s bigger than the causeway.

If Oklahoma-Nebraska can die, surely the world will remain on axis if the causeway dies (or goes on hiatus).

I really wouldn't say too many people are mad at Sac State for moving up, both here on this forum and on social media as a whole. I would say the emotion for most people from what I've seen, myself included, is an extreme level of confusion. I can't fathom how anyone looks at the details of the deal to the MAC and Wood's comments and say "this makes perfect sense for the Hornets". There's no anger there though. I think this play from a financial perspective makes the odds that Sac State football folds in the next several years higher than them getting an invite from the Pac 12 which I believe is their ultimate goal from this MAC deal.

For what it's worth, I think the rivalry with Sac State has been an integral part of the football season for as long as it's been in existence. Always looked forward to showing the Hornets who is little brother.

NDSU at the Toom was special, 1982 semis? Great defensive stands up against the North End zone, O'Brien hurt, Slater & Fricker causing havoc.

Todd was a teammate in 80-81. Still friends. He came out to two games last season.

Todd was a senior when I was a freshman. Totally great guy.

We need to stop being affiliated with them at all.

Nothing about paying 15?, 18?, 20+? million(I've seen many different numbers) to join the MAC is appealing to me.

I think Sac will struggle big time in the MAC. Has an FCS team with less success tried to make this jump? I get the 3 seasons with Troy Taylor were great but nothing else in their history suggest they will succeed at FCS let alone FBS. And on top of that the travel will be horrible. A bunch of 3-9 or 4-8 seasons playing the likes of Eastern Michigan isn’t going to capture the interest of the region.

I get wishing we were moving faster but I want nothing to do with Sac’s “fake it till you make it” game plan.

in what world though do Stanford and cal invite Davis? Athletics wise we are much more similar to the mountain west members than p5 programs like cal and Stanford. I would love to be in a conference but don’t see that happening with them realistically (especially if we stay an FCS program). Getting on a national stage with the MW seems important.

To be honest, if we did want that to happen eventually moving up to an FBS level program in the MW before this implosion of conference stuff seems like a no brainer. Close that gap between the programs while we can. I appreciate your perspective but don’t see how staying in the FCS makes us more marketable to a potential conference with Stanford and Cal in it.

Speaking of academics, the MW aligns more with Davis academics wise too than the Big Sky. Flagship universities in the states they are in vs directional, regional schools. That’s not a knock on those schools, but just the reality size, endowment and student-body wise.

It would have been awesome if the old Pac12 would have stayed and we would have eventually gotten an invite.

Before you go crazy with the MW talk, just keep in mind the conference might not even exist as it does now when the next TV deals are negotiated. The conference realignment isn't close to being done. There are real geographical and financial problems out there in college football that need to be fixed. All I'm saying is be patient. Who knows maybe in 2030...Stanford, Cal, UCLA....all are looking for a new home...and they might be looking for a high academic school in a growing TV market is all I'm saying.

I'm in agreement with a small capacity at Aggie Stadium. I think the planned renovations are right on target for what we need.

I've always thought our issue was getting students and alums to love football (and the gameday experience in general). UM, MSU, NDSU and the entire South love football and their gameday experience. If there is no passion for the experience itself, it really hard to show up for stuff consistently. Davis has shown the ability to show up for select major events (Stanford basketball 2005, D2 Break-the-Record Nights, Causeway football, as examples).

The potential is definitely there. And I think we will experience some really cool stuff at Davis in our lifetimes.

I am pretty sure that with a better product people will come.

Hell, I almost drove up from LA because of the playoffs. The only thing that stopped me from doing so was a pesky cold.

Without any inside knowledge, i think the decision of Locker coming to Davis reflects on the quality of our program, and the respect Coach Plough has earned in the "recruiting marketplace".

Well we have coaches on the team retweeting this..

Amen to that. I think we are luck to have such a guy who not only provides program stability, but also is such a good face/spokesman for the University - and is also a very good coach.

I agree. There is fatigue, since fans have been body-bagged over the past 5-10 years now. Our fan base did prove itself under more enjoyable circumstances though.

I think Davis has shown the potential to show up to Cal/Stanford/SJSU if we are in the MWC and playing on a more level playing field.

I'm more worried about the Yolo / Solano community for home games, to be honest.