UC-Davis 20... Stanford 17

UC-Davis's football team beat Stanford! Serious, check it out:

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) -- Jon Grant threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Blaise Smith with 8 seconds left Saturday night and UC Davis stunned Stanford 20-17 to spoil coach Walt Harris' home debut for the Cardinal.

Harris, brought in to replace Buddy Teevens after three straight losing seasons is off to a rough start at Stanford (1-1), becoming the first Cardinal coach to lose to a non-Division I team.
The Aggies (1-2) who are in the third year of a four-year transition from Division II to Division I-AA, were not intimidated by the Pac-10 environment, keeping Stanford's offense out of the end zone all game and allowing just 180 yards for the night.

After T.C. Ostrander's last-ditch pass fell incomplete at the 5, the Aggies celebrated in the end zone while Harris looked stunned as he walked off the field with his team. The Aggies then ran to the corner of the stadium to thank the thousands of fans who made the two-hour trip from Davis for the game.

The Aggies mounted the winning drive after Emmanuel Benjamin missed two field goals earlier in the fourth quarter that could have tied the game at 17. They took over at their 28 with 2:37 to play. Grant threw a 12-yard pass to Brandon Rice and a 17-yarder to Smith to get the drive started.

Then on a third-and-4 from the Stanford 25, Grant hit a wide-open Tony Kays for 19 yards over the middle for a first down. After a 3-yard keeper and an incomplete pass, Grant found

Smith open in the front corner of the end zone to cap the 11-play drive.

Grant finished 23-for-44 for 251 yards and also ran for 41 yards. Nelson Doris ran for two scores and Kays caught 10 passes for 115 yards.

Stanford quarterback Trent Edwards left the game after two series with an undisclosed injury. Ostrander replaced him and couldn't get the Cardinal into the end zone all game. Both Stanford touchdowns came on fumble recoveries in the first half. Ostrander was 7-for-17 for 108 yards.

The Aggies played their first game against a Division I-A team in eight years and beat a I-A team for the first time since 1986 against Pacific. It was the first time in 65 years they had faced a team that currently is in the Pac-10 and they lost to Stanford the only previous time they played 59-0 in 1932 when Pop Warner was Stanford's coach.

Turnovers played a key role in the scoring, with Stanford scoring twice on fumble recoveries in and UC Davis' first two touchdowns coming after Stanford fumbles.

With the Cardinal leading 3-0, Ostrander drove his team down the field on his first drive before being intercepted at the 1 by Adam Cook. But on the next play, Kevin Schimmelmann sacked Grant in the end zone, knocked the ball loose and fell on it for a score that made it 10-0 late in the first quarter.

Stanford's second defensive score came midway through the second quarter when Babatunde Oshinowo stripped Doris of the ball and Michael Craven scooped the ball up and ran it back 54 yards to make it 17-0.

UC Davis had to punt on its next drive and David Marrero tried to field it inside his 5, muffed a fair catch attempt and Cook recovered for the Aggies at the 3. Doris ran it in on the next play to make it 17-7 at the half.

The Aggies struck quickly in the second half after Luis Amaral ripped the ball away from Anthony Kimble and recovered at the Stanford 41. That set up a 1-yard score by Doris that made it 17-14.