Sacramento State·Big Sky

2017 — The 2017 Season

Sacramento State's 2017 season (7-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 7-4
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -7.3 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Idaho 6-28 W vs Inca Wor 56-22 L vs Webe Sta 24-31 W vs Sout Uta 54-27 L @ East Was 31-52 W vs Idah Sta 41-21 W @ Nort Dak 34-27 L @ Nort Ari 17-37 W vs Nort Col 50-21 W @ Cal Poly 49-14 W vs UC Davis 52-47
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Sacramento State 49, Cal Poly 14. A 35-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Sacramento State 6, Idaho 28. A 22-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Stinger Up"
— Sacramento State fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Sacramento State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.