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The �������ϲʿ����������ͼ football team has been hard at work at its fall training camp for the past month, and will officially open the regular season with an away game at UC Berkeley Saturday (Aug. 31).

“We’ve continued to grow as a team and we are getting closer each day to finding out they type of team we are entering the season,” said head coach Tim Plough ’08, who is entering his first season as head coach.

See the games in person

The Aggies will play six regular season home games at , with varying themes and extra attractions:

• Saturday, Sept. 7 — 7 p.m. kickoff vs Texas A&M-Commerce  
• Saturday, Sept. 21 — 7 p.m. kickoff vs Utah Tech (Back To School Day)
• Saturday, Sept. 28 — 7 p.m. kickoff vs University of Idaho (First Year Field Storm and celebration of Chicanx & Latinx Heritage Month)
• Saturday, Oct. 12 — 4 p.m. kickoff vs Cal Poly (Homecoming, Jr. Aggiette Clinc and Battle For The Golden Horseshoe)
• Saturday, Nov. 2  — 1 p.m. kickoff vs. University of Northern Colorado (Faculty and Staff Appreciation, Parent and Family Weekend and High School Band Day)
• Saturday, Nov. 16 — 5 p.m. kickoff vs Montana State (Senior Day)

, , and individual tickets are , by calling the Aggie Ticket Office at 530-752-2471 or by email.

Returning to home games this season will be Cori, the Labrador retriever owned by Veterinary Medicine Professor Lisa Tell ’87, DVM ’91. Cori is scheduled to retrieve kickoff tees at every home game except the Sept. 21 matchup; she did the same for some bats at baseball games, and Tell said some baseball players will help release Cori at football games this season.

Faculty, staff and students can purchase parking through on game day, while .

Discounted tickets for first home game

The CLEAR Center is sponsoring the Sept. 7 matchup between �������ϲʿ����������ͼ and Texas A&M-Commerce in �������ϲʿ����������ͼ’ first Salute to Ag football game. The home opener will honor farmers, ranchers, workers and allied industry members.

“What a great night it will be when we sponsor the Aggies’ first home game, treat students, alums and families to specially priced tickets, and put our incredible agriculture industry in the spotlight,” said Frank Mitloehner, an animal agriculturalist, air quality specialist and director of the CLEAR Center. “Farming and ranching in California are among the best in the United States, if not the world. The growers and all the partners who make their work possible are showing what can be done when we come together to make the essential undertaking more sustainable.”

For discounted game tickets, go to and enter promo code CLEAR. There are the three price levels, each of which is approximately 50% off as a result of the sponsorship:

• General admission: $7 (normally $15)
• East side: $10 (normally $20)
• West side: $18 (normally $35)

Listen or watch remotely

In addition to the six home games, the Aggies will hit the road six times this regular season:

• Saturday, Aug. 31 — 2 p.m. kickoff at UC Berkeley
• Saturday, Sept. 14 — 5 p.m. kickoff at Southern Utah
• Saturday, Oct. 5 — 1 p.m. kickoff at Portland State
• Saturday, Oct. 19 — 4 p.m. kickoff at Eastern Washington
• Saturday, Nov 9 — 7:15 p.m. kickoff at University of Montana
• Saturday, Nov. 23 — 2 p.m. kickoff at Sacramento State (Causeway Classic)

All of this year’s regular season games will be broadcast on KHTK 1140 AM. Every game will be streamed on ESPN+ with the exceptions of the Aug. 31 season opener at UC Berkeley, which will be shown on ESPN’s ACC Network Extra; and the Nov. 9 away game at Montana, which will be .

Team recognition

The �������ϲʿ����������ͼ football team appears on three preseason polls this year:

• No. 17 on the
• No. 18 ranking on the
• No. 21 In