/ Dan Hawkins Content for UC Davis en /news/dan-hawkins-named-us-coach-year <p>UC Davis鈥� Dan Hawkins today (Dec. 12) was named the nation鈥檚 coach of the year among Football Championship Subdivision schools.</p> December 12, 2018 - 3:56pm Dave Jones /news/dan-hawkins-named-us-coach-year /news/aggie-football-history-in-making <p><strong>Updated 7:30 p.m. Dec. 1:</strong> Aggies win! Aggies win! UC Davis today defeated Northern Iowa, 23-16, to advance in the Football Championship Subdivision national playoffs. A packed Aggie Stadium 鈥� and a national audience on ESPN3 鈥� saw the Aggies compete for the first time in the postseason since moving up to the NCAA鈥檚 Division I.</p> December 01, 2018 - 1:49pm Dave Jones /news/aggie-football-history-in-making /news/kevin-blue-come-be-part-aggie-football <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block "> <h3 class="wysiwyg-feature-block__title">APPRECIATION = FREE</h3> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__body"> <div class="align-center media media--type-sf-image-media-type media--view-mode-default"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/news/campus-news/2017/aug/san-diego-vs-uc-davis-football.jpg" width="430" height="200" alt="University of San Diego vs UC Davis football" typeof="Image"> </div> <p>Talk about appreciation! Faculty and staff can get free tickets to the Aggie football home opener, Sept.</p></div></section> August 22, 2017 - 11:12am Dave Jones /news/kevin-blue-come-be-part-aggie-football /news/combo <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block "> <h3 class="wysiwyg-feature-block__title">FORECAST</h3> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__body"> <p>Don鈥檛 let today鈥檚 rain fool you: The weather is supposed to be just fine for Picnic Day. Weather Underground is forecasting sunshine and a high temperature of 78 degrees, with zero chance of rain.</p> </div> </section> <p>This weekend is all about traditions old and new at the same time:</p> April 18, 2017 - 10:55am Dave Jones /news/combo /news/coach-hawkins-aims-excitement <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block "> <h3 class="wysiwyg-feature-block__title">Picnic Day Practice and Kids Fest</h3> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__body"> <p>Come watch the Aggies鈥� last practice of spring, 10:30 a.m. to noon this Saturday (Picnic Day, April 22) on <a href="http://campusmap.ucdavis.edu/?l=797">Howard Field</a>, alongside the Kids Fest, with games and bounce houses. When practice ends, the players and coaches will stick around to run drills with the youngsters, and sign autographs.</p></div></section> April 18, 2017 - 9:00am Cody Kitaura /news/coach-hawkins-aims-excitement /news/coach-hawk-back <p>UC Davis鈥� head football coach vowed to make it through his introductory press conference without crying. He made it about 60 seconds.</p> <p>Between tearful remembrances of his time as an Aggie and bear hugs with his former coaches, Dan Hawkins 鈥�84 was introduced to the community and members of the media this morning (Nov. 29) at Aggie Stadium.</p> November 29, 2016 - 3:00pm Cody Kitaura /news/coach-hawk-back