UC Davis Aggies
Big SkyDavis, CAAggie Stadium
2026: 4–3 (2–2 Big Sky). Last: lost at Southern Utah 38–17. Next: Northern Colorado, Saturday, Oct 24, 7 p.m. ET.
- W 31–24at Portland State
- W 49–17at San Diego
- L 10–56at No. 17 SMU
- W 45–7Stetson
- L 22–62Montana
- W 49–38Eastern Washington
- L 17–38at Southern Utah
- Oct 24Northern Colorado
- Oct 31at Weber State
- Nov 7Utah Tech
- Nov 14at Idaho
- Nov 21Cal Poly
UC Davis has played football since 1915 and is officially 568–446–33; 266 of its 1,047 games are in our file. They have won 23 Northern California Athletic Conference titles (the last in 1992), plus four Far Western Conference titles, two Great West Conference titles, one Big Sky Conference title, one American West Conference title, counting shared titles. Since 1970, the NFL Draft has taken 11 players from here in its first seven rounds, 1 of them in the first round. The College Football Hall of Fame holds 1 player and 1 coach from UC Davis. The most-played rival is Sacramento State: 20 meetings, UC Davis leads 13–7. This season, they’re 4–3.
On this date in 2024UC Davis beat Eastern Washington 48–38 on the road.
Résumé
- All-time record
- 568–446–33 official; 125–140–1 on file; how we count
- Postseason
- 0–0 bowls, title games, playoff
- AP No. 1 finishes
- 0
- Weeks at No. 1
- 0 of 0 ranked
- Elo now
- 1385
- Computer rankings
- Massey No. 21 · Composite No. 23 in FCS, Oct 17; down 3 since Oct 11. From Massey Ratings
- Conference titles
- 31 last in 2018
- Bowl record
- 0–5 official, bowls only
- Seasons
- 45 since 1926, 266 games
Identity
- Fight song
- Aggie Fight
- Band
- UC Davis Marching Band since 1929
2026 season 4–3
RosterFull 2026 season| Date | Opponent | Result | Elo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | at Portland State | W 31–24 | 74% |
| Sep 5 | at San Diego | W 49–17 | 52% |
| Sep 12 | at 17SMU | L 10–56 | 20% |
| Sep 19 | vs Stetson | W 45–7 | 88% |
| Sep 26 | vs Montana | L 22–62 | 58% |
| Oct 3 | vs Eastern Washington | W 49–38 | 78% |
| Oct 17 | at Southern Utah | L 17–38 | 54% |
| Oct 24 | vs Northern Colorado | Preview | 78% |
| Oct 31 | at Weber State | Preview | 52% |
| Nov 7 | vs Utah Tech | Preview | 89% |
| Nov 14 | at Idaho | Preview | 58% |
| Nov 21 | vs Cal Poly | Preview | 77% |
Elo: a pregame chance from scores alone.
This season, game by game
Players
The 2026 rosterThe moneyOn the 2026 team
- Jordan Fisher750 rushing yards, 8 TD (leads UC Davis in rushing yards)
- Treynor Cleeland1,715 passing yards, 14 TD (leads UC Davis in passing yards)
- Samuel Gbatu Jr.51 catches, 713 yards, 5 TD (leads UC Davis in receiving yards)
- Porter Connors52 tackles, 3.5 sacks (leads UC Davis in sacks)
- Brayden Rosa53 tackles, 1 INT (leads UC Davis in tackles)
- Ty Richardson40 tackles
Program greats See all
Heisman finalists, College Football Hall of Famers, consensus All-Americans, national award winners and first-round picks, for what they did at UC Davis.
Program strength since 1926
Best seasons everMost-played series
All rivalries- Sacramento State
13–7 in 20
- 2015 W 35–21
- 2016 W 48–30
- 2017 L 47–52
- 2018 W 56–13
- 2019 L 17–27
- 2021 L 7–27
- 2022 L 21–27
- 2023 W 31–21
- 2024 W 42–39
- 2025 W 31–27
Won the last three.
- Cal Poly
15–5 in 20
- 2016 L 16–21
- 2017 W 31–28
- 2018 W 52–10
- 2019 W 48–24
- 2020 W 73–24
- 2021 W 24–13
- 2022 W 59–17
- 2023 W 31–13
- 2024 W 56–10
- 2025 W 34–27
Won the last nine; holds the The Golden Horseshoe.
Next: Nov 21
- Southern Utah
7–8 in 15
- 2011 L 3–34
- 2013 W 21–3
- 2015 L 6–34
- 2016 L 3–24
- 2017 L 27–47
- 2019 W 33–25
- 2023 W 23–21
- 2024 W 24–21
- 2025 W 50–34
- 2026 L 17–38
Lost the last one.
| Opponent | Games | UCD record |
|---|---|---|
| Sacramento State | 20 | 13–7 |
| Cal Poly | 20 | 15–5 |
| Southern Utah | 15 | 7–8 |
| Northern Colorado | 14 | 11–3 |
| Portland State | 14 | 8–6 |
| Eastern Washington | 12 | 2–10 |
| California | 12 | 0–12 |
| Weber State | 11 | 4–7 |
Rivals the program names: Cal Poly, Sacramento State, Nevada.
The trophy it holds: The Golden Horseshoe (Cal Poly, since 2017). Who holds each comes from the games on file; the trophies from Wikipedia.
Every opponent (59)
Every program UC Davis has played, A to Z, with UC Davis’s record against it. Each links to the series, game by game.
- Arizona State 0–2
- Boise State 0–1
- BYU 2–2–1
- Cal Poly 15–5
- California 0–12
- Central Arkansas 1–1
- Colorado State 0–1
- East Texas A&M 2–0
- Eastern Washington 2–10
- Fort Lewis 1–0
- Fresno State 0–1
- Hawai’i 0–2
- Humboldt State 0–1
- Idaho 6–1
- Idaho State 6–2
- Illinois State 1–1
- Iona 1–0
- Lehigh 1–0
- Montana 2–9
- Montana State 1–8
- Nevada 0–2
- New Hampshire 0–1
- North Dakota 4–3
- North Dakota State 1–2
- Northeastern 1–1
- Northern Arizona 5–4
- Northern Colorado 11–3
- Northern Iowa 1–0
- Oregon 0–1
- Oregon State 0–5
- Pacific 3–3
- Portland State 8–6
- Rhode Island 1–0
- Sacramento State 13–7
- San Diego 10–1
- San Diego State 0–1
- San José State 2–3
- SMU 0–1
- South Dakota 2–4
- South Dakota State 0–5
- Southern Oregon 1–0
- Southern Utah 7–8
- St. Mary’s (CA) 1–0
- Stanford 1–3
- Stephen F. Austin 0–2
- Stetson 1–0
- TCU 0–1
- Texas State 0–1
- Tulsa 1–0
- UCLA 0–2
- Utah Tech 3–0
- UTSA 1–0
- Washington 0–1
- Weber State 4–7
- Western Oregon 1–0
- Western Washington 0–1
- Winston-Salem State 1–0
- Wyoming 0–1
- Youngstown State 0–1
Conference titles
31, counting shared titles- Big Sky Conference 1
- 2018 (shared)
- American West Conference 1
- 1993 (shared)
As the program counts them in its Wikipedia article, shared titles included, and listed under each conference’s current name (a Western Conference title of the 1900s counts as a Big Ten title); season pages use the name the conference had that year. A title the article files under a conference the team wasn’t in that season is listed under the one it was. Division titles include years the team tied for its division.
Conferences
- Independent 1915–1917 and 1919–1924
- Far Western Conference 1925–1942 and 1946–1972
- Northern California Athletic Conference 1982–1992
- Independent 1994–2003
- Great West Conference 2004–2011
- Big Sky since 2012
- 2004Joined the Great West Conference from independence in football. Source
- 2012Joined the Big Sky from the Great West Conference in football, announced September 7, 2010. Source
UC Davis’s football conferences by season, from CollegeFootballData.com’s memberships (renamed conferences keep the name of the time). The moves and their announcement dates from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the year is the first season in the new conference. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
In the Hall of Fame
Every inductee- Players
- 1
- Coaches
- 1
| 1999 | Jim Sochor coach, career 1970–1988 |
| 1997 | Ken O’Brien QB |
In the NFL Draft
By college- Drafted, rounds 1–7
- 11 since 1970
- First-round picks
- 1
| 1983 | Ken O’Brien QB | No. 24, New York Jets |
The school
University of California–Davis- Enrollment
- 40,065 32,273 undergraduates, fall 2024
- Where
- Davis, California
- Public or private
- Public Research 1
- Founded
- 1905
- Graduates’ median earnings
- $80,838 10 years after starting
Enrollment, place and Carnegie research tier from the National Center for Education Statistics (IPEDS, public domain). Earnings from the US Department of Education’s College Scorecard (CC BY 4.0): the median for students who received federal aid and were working, not in school. Founding year from Wikidata. Every school’s in the data.
Season by season
National champions| Season | Record | Conf. | AP pre | AP final | Coach | Elo | SP+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 4–3 | 2–2 | 1385 | ||||
| 2025 | 9–4 | 6–2 | 1474 | ||||
| 2024 | 11–3 | 7–1 | 1482 | ||||
| 2023 | 7–4 | 5–3 | 1401 | ||||
| 2022 | 6–5 | 5–3 | 1416 | ||||
| 2021 | 8–4 | 5–3 | 1357 | ||||
| 2020 | 3–2 | 1350 | |||||
| 2019 | 5–7 | 3–4 | 1349 | ||||
| 2018 | 10–3 | 7–2 | 1462 | ||||
| 2017 | 5–6 | 4–5 | 1283 | ||||
| 2016 | 3–8 | 2–6 | 1173 | ||||
| 2015 | 2–9 | 2–6 | 1157 | ||||
| 2014 | 2–9 | 1–7 | 1209 | ||||
| 2013 | 5–7 | 5–5 | 1298 | ||||
| 2012 | 0–2 | 1260 | |||||
| 2011 | 4–7 | 1–3 | 1285 | ||||
| 2010 | 6–4 | 3–1 | 1314 | ||||
| 2009 | 6–5 | 3–1 | 1308 | ||||
| 2008 | 3–6 | 1280 | |||||
| 2007 | 5–6 | 1–3 | 1331 | ||||
| 2006 | 5–2 | 1420 | |||||
| 2005 | 6–5 | 4–1 | 1329 | ||||
| 2004 | 4–3 | 2–1 | 1260 | ||||
| 2003 | 1–3 | 1160 | |||||
| 1997 | 0–1 | 1159 |
Every season back to 1926 (20 more)
Officially 568–446–33 since 1915 (per Wikipedia, rechecked weekly); game by game here, 125–140–1 (266 of its 1,047 games are on file). Our file starts in 1926; the program began in 1915. Some games are missing from our source.
No season on file for 1931, 1941–71, 1973–74, 1976–77, 1979–81, 1983–85, 1987–93, 1995–96, 1998–2002: the program may not have played, or our source may be missing them.
Records are computed from every game on file at CollegeFootballData.com, whose coverage of the earliest seasons can be incomplete. Elo is this site’s own rating; see how it works on the records page.