It seems that a lot of UCD students are turned off by the fact that we don’t play in the PAC-12 or another famous conference. It is an unfortunate fact that California happens to boast four research universities on par with Davis that do play in a top-level conference, creating a bit of a sense of entitlement in terms of being included in such an organization.
The fact is, there are many, many DI conferences out there that aren’t major conferences, and the two big ones UCD is a part of (Big West for most sports, Big Sky for football) are pretty good ones with which to identify. The Big West, because it spans so many sports, is a topic too big to cover in full, so we’ll restrict the discussion to the Big Sky football teans for now.
