FCS football playoff future hangs on EWU-Davis outcome

CHENEY — The last time Eastern Washington and the University of California-Davis met on the football field a trip to Frisco, Texas and the Football Championship Subdivision national title game lay in the outcome.

That was on Dec. 8, 2018 in Cheney on Roos Field where the Eagles scored in the final minute for a 34-29 victory that sent them to the semifinals and a win over Maine. Eastern got the trip to Texas with a 50-19 win over the Black Bears, ultimately falling to North Dakota State 38-24.

Now, in the winter-spring Big Sky Conference season there are similar elements at stake for ninth-rank...