Causeway Classic Content

Causeway Classic Rivalry: From Football Field to Chancellor’s Office

Cody Kitaura — November 14, 2023 - 12:11pm

The leaders of �ٺ��Ƶ and Sacramento State are amping up the cross-Causeway rivalry before their universities meet on the football field this weekend.

Ags Land Dec. 1 Home Game in Playoffs

Dave Jones — November 18, 2018 - 1:30pm

Updated 10:30 a.m. Nov. 18: Aggie Stadium missed out on hosting the Causeway Classic, Saturday (Nov. 17), after officials moved the game to Reno to escape the wildfire smoke in the Davis-Sacramento region.

Blood Drive Shares in Excitement Over Football

Dave Jones — October 30, 2018 - 12:23pm

Eager fans who can’t wait for the Causeway Classic football game have a chance to beat Sac State on a different kind of field next week: in bloodmobiles stationed around the Quad for the three-day Causeway Classic Blood Drive.

One Causeway Classic Down, One to Go

Cody Kitaura — November 14, 2017 - 1:00pm

The Aggies and Hornets will face each other this weekend on the football field, but one Causeway Classic contest has already been decided.

�ٺ��Ƶ defeated Sacramento State in the 10th annual Causeway Classic Blood Drive, in which the university with the most participants in its on-campus blood drive and at donation centers around the region wins the perpetual trophy.

“Yes, Aggies, that means that �ٺ��Ƶ still holds the title as the Causeway Classic Blood Drive Champion and now leads this competition, 6-4,” Felicia LaMothe of BloodSource said in an email message.

THE DOWNLOAD: Aggies Have a Bronze, Silver and Gold Week

Cody Kitaura — November 22, 2016 - 9:00am

Aggie athletics celebrated another impressive academic report from the NCAA last Tuesday (Nov. 15) and kept celebrating all week, honoring a coaching legend and defeating Sacramento State twice: in the Causeway Classic football game and in men’s basketball in the new Golden 1 Center — in the first college basketball game ever played there.

The men’s water polo team made a splash, too, capturing the Western Water Polo Association title and a play-in berth in the NCAA championship tournament.

Honoring a Coach, Saluting Our Heroes

Cody Kitaura — November 15, 2016 - 5:11pm

A statue of the late coach Jim Sochor, who pioneered Aggie Pride, will be unveiled at Aggie Stadium before the last football game of the season, this Saturday (Nov. 19). It’ll be the 63rd annual Causeway Classic, the �ٺ��Ƶ-Sacramento State match-up in which Sochor went 18-1 as head coach.

The bronze statue is just outside the stadium's main gate. The Sochor likeness gazes toward the stadium's Jim Sochor Field, named in his honor when the stadium opened in 2007.

NEWS BRIEFS: Diversity-Inclusion Plan Up for Review

Hailey Rose Jenkins — October 25, 2016 - 12:00pm

A draft of the campus’s new Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan will be the subject of a community forum from 5 to 7 p.m. this Thursday (Oct. 27).

The committee behind the plan is seeking additional feedback on top of what has come in online. The draft plan is posted here, on a page that includes a “Submit your feedback” button.