College Roundup: Cal Poly adds future FBS football opponents

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• For Cal Poly football, a big hole in the Big Sky

  For Cal Poly football, a big hole in the Big Sky

  Cal Poly’s football team will play its first season in the Big Sky Conference in 2012, but that schedule will not include games with Montana or Montana State, the conference’s two playoff teams in 2011.

  The Mustangs’ full 2012 schedule was released Wednesday. Cal Poly will play eight games in the Big Sky Conference with its first-ever Big Sky game being a Sept. 22 home date with rival UC Davis, which is 3-0 against the Mustangs under Cal Poly head coach Tim Walsh.

  The Mustangs will have five home games and six road contests.

• Cal Poly football faces another tough road test

  Cal Poly football faces another tough road test

  With a schedule that has, in a span of four weeks, pitted Cal Poly against two FBS teams, the Mustangs are getting used to playing the underdog role.

  Against a Northern Illinois team that is favored by many to win the Mid-American Conference, the Mustangs are, again, fully embracing being the longshot in today’s game.

  “With a (FBS) team going against us, the classic thing is that they are going to take us as lesser competition,” Cal Poly cornerback Asa Jackson said. “That’s not the case. If we come out and play our game, we will be just fine.”

• College Roundup: Cal Poly football team to play Nevada in 2016

  College Roundup: Cal Poly football team to play Nevada in 2016

  The Cal Poly football program announced Tuesday that it will play at Nevada on Sept. 10, 2016.

  The Mustangs last played the Wolf Pack in 1998, losing 63-0. It remains the last time Cal Poly was shut out. Nevada leads the nine-game all-time series between the two, dating back to 1941, 6-3.

  Cal Poly will play at Arizona State in its first-ever game against a Pac-12 opponent Sept. 19, 2015. The Mustangs have four additional games against FBS-level schools in the West scheduled for the next three seasons: at Wyoming next year, at Fresno State and Colorado State in 2013, and at New Mexico State in 2014.

• College Roundup: Cal Poly tops Big West women's basketball poll

  College Roundup: Cal Poly tops Big West women's basketball poll

  Kristina Santiago is back, and voters believe the Cal Poly women’s basketball team will be, too.

  The Mustangs were chosen by a media poll to repeat as champions of the Big West Conference after the team captured the program’s first regular-season crown last year with its star senior sidelined with a torn ACL.

  Tied with 11 first-place votes with UC Santa Barbara, who shared last year’s regular season Big West Championship, Cal Poly received 200 total votes to top the media poll, released Wednesday.

• Cal Poly Football Notebook: Central Oklahoma offers Cal Poly a surprising test

  Cal Poly Football Notebook: Central Oklahoma offers Cal Poly a surprising test

  The Cal Poly football team, and the Mustangs fan base, have become all too familiar of falling victim to the come-from-behind wins during the past couple of seasons.

  But against Division II Central Oklahoma on Saturday, it was the Mustangs who made the comeback, erasing a nine-point halftime deficit to grab a 44-25 win.

  “Well I mean obviously we didn’t script it the way it turned out,” Cal Poly head coach Tim Walsh said. “They did a tremendous job and I have to give them a lot of credit for what they did on the offensive side of the ball.”