The third-string quarterback, the 83-yard touchdown and the win no one saw

None of it made sense — it wasn’t supposed to. If you take the 83-yard touchdown bomb, sprinkle in some heroics of a third-string quarterback, add in the No. 1 team in the nation and shake that cocktail up in…

Cal Poly athletics takes a step in the right direction

Once again, it is nearly impossible to imitate the same success most Cal Poly teams had in 2008-09, but 2010-11 came close.

Football downs top team in the nation behind quarterback Shumway

When it came down to it, it didn’t take last season’s starting quarterback — Tony Smith — to fuel the Mustangs past the No. 1 team in the nation. It didn’t even take Andre Broadous — one of the most heralded recruits the Mustangs have had in recent years — to fuel the Cal Poly Mustangs to only their second win in history over the Montana Grizzlies.