-
Hi Guest, want to participate in the discussions, keep track of read/unread posts, upgrade to remove ads and more? Create your free account and increase the benefits of your BigSkyFans.com experience today!
Sac St Football in 2026-2027
- Thread starter StockonLB
- Start date
the Rat
Active member
oldrunner
Active member
WOW, and they are all high major FBS teams to boot. I'm sure the next 7 teams will be SEC and Big10. It's amazing what can be done with 25 million extra in the bank. I'm sure that getting all of those FBS teams to come to Sac, must have cost a small fortune. I see an undefeated season and an invite to the FBS playoffs coming up.
Kadeezy
Active member
I really enjoyed ChatGPT's expectations of this year, hard to argue!
Most Likely Status
Reality Check
What This Year Really Is
Key Risk
Key Win Condition
2026 Season
“Transition Turbulence” PhaseMost Likely Status
- Division: FCS (Big Sky replacement scheduling / quasi-independent feel)
- Conference: Big West (non-football), football effectively homeless
- Record Range: 5–7 to 7–5
- Head Coach: New hire, short leash
- Facilities: Incremental upgrades only
Reality Check
- This is the most unstable year in program history.
- Recruiting suffers due to uncertainty.
- Schedule quality is uneven: some FCS rivals, some FBS money games.
- Attendance dips slightly due to confusion and frustration.
What This Year Really Is
- A proof-of-life season, not a growth season.
- Administration is still selling a future that has not materialized yet.
Key Risk
- Coaching churn.
- NIL gaps versus true FBS programs.
Key Win Condition
- Staying competitive and avoiding public embarrassment against FBS opponents.
OldSchoolHornet
Active member
Interesting perspectives. All of them seem reasonable and some of them are extremely likely. I’m certainly hoping the year goes much better.
HornetFootballFan
Active member
That was at our expense..I've always thought an unwritten gentleman's agreement was reached. The Big Sky took in Davis and Poly football, and the Big West left Sac State alone. There is nothing official substantiating this, but it would explain why the status quo lasted for 15 years. Look at what former Big Sky commissioner Doug Fullerton said.
Big Sky Adds Cal Poly, UC Davis to Football Lineup
The Big Sky Conference is proud to announce that the University of California, Davis and Cal Poly have accepted invitations to join the league as affiliate members in the sport of football.bigskyconf.com
“We worked in cooperation with Big West Conference Commissioner Dennis Farrell,’’ Fullerton added. “The Big West fully supports this effort, as it gives its two football-playing members a home.’’
Kinda makes the unofficial understanding between two conferences plausible. The "gentleman's agreement" only ended when the MWC added Davis.
Had the WAC moved to FCS football sooner, maybe they would have survived with Poly and Davis and the southwest/Texas schools. The Great West conference was nice, but needed the Dakota schools to anchor it. NCAA conferences growing larger for stability with fewer out of conference games made Poly and Davis great fits for Big Sky football only at the time.
Did that benefit Sac? Not really, besides making scheduling easier. The other option would have been for another FCS western conference to have survived with an auto bid by WAC almost had it, but too late. Sac would most likely have to join the WAC or fading Great West, both of which are gone.
Big Sky has become one of two strongest FCS conferences, at least for football. Davis leaving hurts that right now (though seems inevitable). sac joining Big West will be fine if football is figured out. Big West is stable enough with recent additions, no more gentleman’s agreements needed.
Did that benefit Sac? Not really, besides making scheduling easier. The other option would have been for another FCS western conference to have survived with an auto bid by WAC almost had it, but too late. Sac would most likely have to join the WAC or fading Great West, both of which are gone.
Big Sky has become one of two strongest FCS conferences, at least for football. Davis leaving hurts that right now (though seems inevitable). sac joining Big West will be fine if football is figured out. Big West is stable enough with recent additions, no more gentleman’s agreements needed.
Last edited:
The CP and phag invites should have been all or nothing from the BSC. It would have given a better and more permanent foothold for the BSC in CA for all sports and given us a reprieve on Oly sports travel...and probably would have kept everyone in place baring outside involvement (D1 governance issues currently driving movement). It was those football only invites in which membership in the BSC became severely disadvantageous wrt our peers in CA and it was only a matter of time until we found a home more fitting.
