On Friday night, UC Davis football coach Tim Plough told his team about a heavyweight boxing match for the ages and implored the Aggies to come out swinging against a team the program had not been able to solve.
That issue is now solved.
Inspired by Muhammad Ali’s legendary championship bout knockout victory over heavily favored George Foreman 50 years ago in the “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasa, Zaire, the FCS No. 6-ranked Aggies scored a breakthrough victory over Eastern Washington on Saturday in Cheney, Wa…