My 12 Days of Christmas/2026 Aggie Football wish list:

12,000 fans (per game)
11 guys who can cover kickoffs
10+ win season
9 Ladies of Davis dance routines
8 Men and Maids-a-milking for the cows across LaRue from the stadium
7 points in the red zone (rather than field goal attempts)
6 yards per carry (for Fish)
$50 million in renovations and improvements
4 NCAA playoff victories (1st round bye excluded)
A 300# D-Tackle (and an Edge rusher)
2 Connors brothers
1 Nasty Left Tackle from the Transfer Portal for Pinnick

Is it strange that today after digesting the game and watching Coach P's press conference, I'm actually in greater spirits for next year? I'm really upbeat about the direction of the program. Thank you Aggies for a heck of a season.

After some long discussions with my family. I’d like to announce I WILL be back as a season ticket holder next year and beyond.

Go Ags

Plan for today:
1. Walk at graduation
2. WATCH THE AGGIES MOVE TO THE SEMI-FINALS
(Forcing the entire extended family to watch)
3. Grub out!

Go AGS!!

Locked in tickets with 4 of my buddies! See yall there!

Great job by Coach Plough, Rocco, and the Chancellor to make the housing thing happen. Great message to the rest of FCS that UC Davis is serious about football.

I just talked with Dr. May. The Dorms will stay open for the players and any student needing housing who wishes to stay and watch the game throughout the playoffs. They released a statement yesterday.

Sounds like they found a solution to the issue. Wonder why it couldnt be replicated here? When the two stadiums have different atmospheres and results, it will be apparent why.

Hi, Davis. I'm a reader rather than a poster on the Redbird forums, but since none of us have come here yet I figure I'll chat.

Glad to have another shot after you dismantled us last season. I think (and hope!) that we'll put up a better fight this time around. This ISU team is better than last year's, with a slightly worse record largely because we dodged all of the top Valley teams except NDSU last season - all four of our 2024 losses were by at least 32. I think we'll be a little sluggish this week after the drain of the NDSU game so that will be tough.

As mentioned we're pretty inconsistent, mostly between home and on the road. We went 3-3 at home with a Pioneer win, a 2OT win over a pretty bad UNA, and our best home win against UNI, the 8th-best team in the conference. On the road, we are 7-0 against the FCS plus a loss to Oklahoma, with wins at three Dakotas. Last year was similar, though, with our only road loss also to an FBS team, and it did not continue here.

Should be a good one. I hope whoever wins goes on to Nashville.

I think on the squib kick, the tee went flying about 10 yards, so it wasn’t where he’s trained to look - after that, it got worse!


On a side note, I’m a moderator for a Aggie fan page on Facebook (UC Davis Aggie football - Aggie Pride). Since Saturday, we’ve had 32 requests for new users (all legit) and several people posting comments for the first time! So, good to see some new excitement!

Media relations need to go overdrive and start talking to the local radio stations and tv stations to pump up the game for next week. Everyone should be hearing about the game. I'm calling to some radio stations to show interest in the game.

There isn't really much going on next week and people are looking for something to do. We should push it out a family atmosphere, cheap tickets, enjoy playoff college football for everyone!

when we checked into the Hyatt yesterday (cheapest rate I’ve ever seen) the receptionist was STOKED about the game. She’s a senior and couldn’t wait to freeze and cheer on the team.

Saw her this morning and she was still floating on air. Said they stood the whole game, never stopped cheering and NOBODY left.

I told her I don’t expect many students this week ….’give out good merch and some might stick around’. Hopefully she’s not out there cheering by herself

Quite pleased with the broadcast, the atmosphere in the feed was great, and they put Davis in a good light. I think the team needs to get used to there being more cameras around and it being more for the refs to draw from on close calls - the reviews are going to happen, be prepared accordingly.

Well unfortunately with graduation ending at noon and the game at 2 I will not be able to attend (out of state family is in town), but we will be watching it on tv. Gonna be an emotional day in so many ways on Saturday, hopefully happy across the board!

Great game and good atmosphere. Turned out I had a seat behind Mitch Dixon’s parents. Students were loud. Had to educate the cow dressed students that they were Holsteins. Loved the smell of alfalfa and cow barns near tailgate - sticking to the ag roots. Serendipitous moment when walking back to my motel I helped a stranger get directions and it turned out to be the Rhode Island University president. He was in the UC Davis faculty earlier in his carrier. Nice low-key guy. Turns out we were in the same motel.

Defense really stiffened in the second half. Pinnick is so talented and elusive - really turned to his legs when needed and threw some nice balls.

Ok, if anyone from athletics marketing reads this, going to need push harder potentially for Illinois State since most students will be home—

• have the chancellor extend the winter break dorm closure date to Sunday.
• review admission data to see which students came to the most games, then cross reference with their zip codes. If there are clusters within 90 minutes, organize charters and then call them.
• setup a group code for Amtrak. Maybe even pick a train to designate as the Aggie Pride Train. They used to do this for Pajamarino.
• going to need a townie turnout. 2pm is a perfect time, organize a community bike parade from the Farmers Market and promote this week in the elementary schools.
• make nice with the Alumni Band and have them rally the Farmers Market all morning and help out at the game if the kiddie band is thin.
• get the “football this Saturday” message into all the Unitrans electronic signs. They used to do this like 20 years ago.

That student section and overall crowd was a billion times better than last playoff game. For a cold night during finals week, that was nothing short of amazing.

Offensive looked amazing and we held a high scoring offense to like 15 points less than they have in previous games.

This team really looks like they can make a run. They believe. Every touchdown they were dancing.

This game is a GREAT one to have had for a national audience. Big for the program.

We have approximately 1 in 62 chance of hosting Illinois State two weekends from now.

There is still a chance. :smile:

This one aged into a fine wine. Cheers, sir.

Thanks y’all! Rising tides raise all boats. Let’s keep the train moving. Big opportunity this post season. Hope to see some of your faces at the tailgate and game!

They dominos are falling for us....

Wait so I might… graduate and then get a home playoff game the afternoon after?!?

Any and all are invited to Bob Biggs field to tailgate. Kegs and Buckhorn available for all. Dwight and I will be there at 4

Game day. Go Ags, beat the Rhodys. Go Illinois State!

Let's go!

One of the comments on this video ....
"If we are to believe that the message boards reflect the fan bases, Davis fans are insanely analytical, completely opposite the average message board experience. So I believe they’re capable of waiting things out for the right move."
If Davis fans know how to do anything....its wait for stuff :lol:

Hello Aggies! URI fan looking forward to playing you guys. No question this will be a difficult game for the Rams. Despite our record, we have seen erratic play and lots of miscues especially early in season and that explains the URI loss to Brown. We started to clean that up later in season and ended with some strong performances, the CCSU game not included. Our QB is a real dude and game's outcome will be largely of his making.

Yes, I agree the CAA is not as strong as the Big Sky. and this fact makes us underdogs on Saturday. The CAA has deteriorated with the loss of Delaware, James Madison and Old Dominion to FBS and the impending departure of Richmond, William & Mary and Villanova to the Patriot League. We are now left with a few old rivals Maine and UNH and find ourselves with some southern schools which we have little in common To answer this board's question on who our Sac St. is - we have really none. It used to be Brown when the Ivy League was mighty, but otherwise UConn was our hated rival in all sports which ended when the Big East was created and when they later moved their football program up to the FBS level.

Some other info, URI is a land grant college and has agricultural beginnings. Our hated rivals in basketball at Providence College sometimes refer to URI as the Farm. Our colors are Keaney Blue, white and Navy blue. The light blue was developed by our legendary BB coach Frank Keaney who was also a chemistry professor. Keaney developed the color and the school adopted Rams as our mascot a few years before UNC who despite their Tarheels nick name use a Ram as mascot. They also stole our pep song. Oh, and we are a top surfing school based on east coast standards.

Thank you folks! I graduate in December so this was a great pre-grad gift to see the Aggies again at home one last time.

You posted on the sac forum

I am trolling a bit on their board because these are "promised donations" and ours are "pledges" but their efforts are somehow perceived as more concrete? GFTOH.

I am not totally sure why you are focused about "promised donations" (where does it say that?) but either way, you cannot be serious acting like the history of Sac State's promises/plans and Davis' project history are even comparable. I want Sac to get new facilities and everything, but I think the plans across the board sports wise for a Davis athletics department that has a solidified conference they are joining, a history of having solid donors, and a phased project style is much more clear and tangible than what Wood and folks have put out.

The comment you made on the sac forum is another example of you missing the point:

Also, if Wood and co. are as media savvy as I think they are, it would not surprise me to see an announcement swoop in over the next couple days that throws water on the UCD happy new pictures announcement.

Davis is focused on a medium-term facility upgrade plan to get in line with the MW conference. Sac is throwing out a few splashy renderings, talking crap on twitter and making wild claims about things that were never going to happen and putting bleachers in the campus rec facility. It is not the same. I don't think Sac should be focused on "dunking" on Davis.

Sac has focused way to much on trying to look flashy without explaining steps for those flashy things to be a reality. Maybe its just my opinion but the whole way the Sac admin has talked about athletic stuff has been obnoxious and ego-driven compared to Davis just focusing on improving without over the top noise.

Hello, I’m Nevada fan who lives in Sacramento, that casually follows UCD football and basketball.

Congrats on the win, your team looked really good tonight. I’m looking forward to conference battles in the future. Les is a great coach, hopefully he’s able to build the program up a step further with the move to the MW.

Hopefully your football program is able to step up to the MW as well. UCD is truly a sleeping giant, I’m hopeful that you guys are able to reach your potential.

Best of luck the rest of the year!