FCS Kickoff Season 2025 Episode 1 - Mercer Bears vs. UC Davis Aggies

Airdate: 2025-Aug-23

Episode summary:

From the Cramton Bowl in Montgomery, Alabama.Mercer will make its second appearance in three seasons, having used a swarming defense to knock off North Alabama, 17-7, in a lightning-altered game that opened the 2023 college football season. UC Davis is the first California-based school to play in the FCS Kickoff Classic.Both schools wrapped up historic 2024 campaigns as national seeds in the quarterfinals round of the FCS Playoffs on Saturday. The fifth-seeded Aggies (11-3) dropped a tough 35-21 contest at fourth-seeded South Dakota, while the seventh-seeded Bears (11-3) fell 31-7 to second-seed North Dakota State.

About FCS Kickoff series:

The FCS Kickoff is an annual college football game played on the Saturday before the opening weekend of the college football season. The game showc...Show more >