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he flatbed trucks accept backed assimilate the beat grass fields that arena Bi-weekly Stadium, which can beggarly alone one thing: academy football.

It's four canicule afore Fresno State's abutting game, but affairs accept begun. The trucks are packing aluminum frames and canvas, abstracts for the canopies that, appear Saturday, will apartment the hundreds of pregame tailgate parties, the best busy of which affection alive music and waiters confined prime rib and wine on white tablecloths.

At the Bi-weekly Shop, an accoutrement and gift abundance beyond the artery from the stadium, barter clamp T-shirts, hoodies and mini football helmets in a continued bandage headed adjoin the banknote register. In the advancing days, the abundance will set annal for hourly, circadian and account sales. At the added end of campus, central the Dog Abode Grill, no one in the arranged bar is arena abundant absorption to collapsed screens assuming highlights from far-away NBA and NHL games.

This is, afterwards all, Bulldogs country, breadth academy sports rules — best conspicuously the undefeated, 15th-ranked Fresno State football team. Perhaps no aggregation amid California's array of colleges energizes its hometown with as abundant affection and pride.

In the canicule afore Halloween, Fresno is gearing up to host the University of Nevada Wolf Pack, a Mountain West Conference battling that has played in a basin bold in anniversary of the aftermost three seasons.

The cyberbanking lath aloft the aperture at the U.S. Mortgage Home Loan Centermost appointment sums up the community's support, aflame the bulletin "Go Dogs."

On the day afore the game, the Shaw Avenue arcade commune is red with admirers in Bulldogs hoodies and polo shirts. At Barry Maas' allowance company, anybody in the appointment either wears a shirt with a bi-weekly on it or spends the day alienated algid stares from co-workers. Central Dr. Eric Hanson's second-floor apartment at the Sierra-Pacific Orthopaedic Center, nurses accept ample Bulldogs logos sewn assimilate the sleeves of their powder-blue smocks and the walls of the four assay apartment are covered with affected photos of the college's football players.

"The burghal shuts bottomward for Bulldogs football," says Derek Carr, Fresno State's record-setting quarterback. "It's a big deal."

Carr would know. He no best goes out for midweek dinners during the division because his commons were consistently disconnected by adulatory fans.

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When Fresno State played that home bold adjoin Nevada this month, the aftermost acceptance was awash bristles canicule afore kickoff, appearance the ancient sellout back the school's bowled amphitheater was advertisement to 41,031 seats in 1991. It was the additional abounding abode in three home amateur for Fresno State, now 9-0 and assured a accommodation army for Saturday's final home bold adjoin New Mexico.

Compare that with UCLA, which has a football aggregation ranked a cleft advanced of Fresno but hasn't abounding its home amphitheater back 2006. USC awash out the Coliseum for Saturday's showdown with then-No. 5 Stanford, but beforehand this division the Trojans were arena home amateur in a amphitheater almost bisected full.

The Coliseum and Pasadena's Rose Bowl, UCLA's home field, are essentially beyond than Fresno State's stadium. But so is the citizenry of L.A. Canton — about 10 actor in 2012, compared with beneath than 1 actor in Fresno County. And alike back appearance swells for the Los Angeles teams, the atmosphere doesn't bout that offered by this Central Valley city.

"This town's activity nuts. I can't handle it, I'm so giddy," says Chris Pacheco, a above Fresno State amateur who, about three decades afterwards his aftermost game, still has the colossal anatomy and booming personality of a arresting lineman.

When his arena canicule ended, Pacheco adopted a bi-weekly called Cal Bowl, one of the school's mascots. Running the dog about to promotional appearances led to access that landed him a position in sales and business at KMJ-AM (580), which captivated the radio rights to Fresno State contest for 43 years — until Pacheco bought his own base and paid $3 actor to advertisement the Bulldogs' football amateur alpha this season.

Pacheco, who has a Fresno State logo added to the basin at his home in the city's chic Fig Garden neighborhood, cites football's adeptness to accomplish publicity as the acumen bodies should "support it as abundant as we possibly can, and afresh abutment it some more."

Brian Boever, whose Bulldogs-red 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham is covered with aggregation logos, discusses the area's affection for the Fresno State team.

Fresno admirers about-face out for added than football. Amid California schools with women's basketball teams, alone Stanford's civic assertive drew beyond crowds aftermost season. And the Fresno State softball aggregation has led the nation in boilerplate appearance 13 times back the NCAA began befitting clue in 1991.

"As an amateur and a fan, it's appealing special," says Gena Strang-Behrens, a above Bulldogs softball amateur who is accustomed about boondocks 25 years afterwards her aftermost game. "The affair about Fresno is, we're a actual ample burghal but we still accept that alone feeling. San Francisco, L.A. are actual altered from our community."

When Fresno State's baseball aggregation won the Academy World Series bristles years ago, about 12,000 admirers waited up to two hours in nearly-100-degree calefaction to acceptable the players and coaches home, lining a arenaceous and shadeless array avenue that concluded on campus.

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Baseball Coach Mike Batesole, who larboard Cal State Northridge for the Bulldogs 11 years ago, calls Fresno "the aftermost academy boondocks larboard in California." Back he was hired, he had four adolescent accouchement who enjoyed bathrobe absolutely in red and activity to football and basketball games.

"Call me a goober, but I anticipation that was absolutely cool," Batesole says. "It's what academy contest is declared to be about."

Where abroad would the academy bowling aggregation — yes, Fresno has one — get bounded television advantage and a abode of account to adhere its banderole at the Dog Abode Grill?

On football bold day, the grass fields and parking lots abutting to the amphitheater are accessible to tailgaters about four hours afore kickoff. Fresno State is primarily a driver school, but for acceptance advantageous abundant to alive on campus Saturday night agency they're about a quarter-mile airing from a actual ample party. And for them, acceptance is free.

The academy allows admirers to assets a prime tailgate atom for amid $150 and $600 per game, depending on admeasurement and location. Pacheco's radio base commands a huge area, architecture a behemothic white tent, accoutrement the grass with bulldog-red carpeting and pumping in air conditioning for his sponsors and guests. Others accomplish do with a parking pass, a George Foreman barbecue and decrepit backyard chairs.

At the belted end of one lot, a bandage sets up on a date as two firetrucks — lights and sirens afire — cut through cartage advanced of two bout buses abiding the aggregation from a pregame meal. The players, dressed in atramentous and red clue suits, boring accomplish their way adjoin the locker allowance as the complete arrangement blares the AC/DC bedrock canticle "T.N.T."

In a quieter area, Eric "Bill" Larson tends to a barbecue while occasionally handing out business cards with his self-proclaimed title: Director, Tailgate Operations. Close by is Brian Panish, Fresno State chic of 1980, who is sitting on a folding armchair at one of a dozen or so ample barbecue tables that accept been awkward beneath an covering abutting to the sports anesthetic architecture he helped fund.

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Panish, who was built-in not far from L.A. Burghal Hall, played football for Fresno State afore acceptable a claimed abrasion advocate to the stars, apery such audience as Michael Jackson's family. Here, he's best accepted as one of the football program's acceptable donors, accepting accustomed hundreds of bags of dollars in contempo years.

Panish lives in Los Angeles but flies in for Fresno State home games. He says variances in appearance and actuality amid rural Fresno, the centermost of the abundant San Joaquin Valley, and Southern California's burghal drape accept helped deepen his access to his alma mater.

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"I absolutely owe a lot to Fresno State. It fabricated a huge aberration in my life," Panish says. "In L.A. a lot of bodies accept their own agenda. Here, people's No. 1 calendar is the Bulldogs, win or lose."

It is Blackout Night at the Nevada game, with best admirers address their Bulldogs red for black, giving the crumbling accurate amphitheater an apocalyptic feel. Add to that the aural barrage that erupts back Fresno State's black-clad aggregation contest assimilate the acreage through a massive inflatable bulldog, and it's accessible to accept why Carr was able to bake the afraid Nevada aegis for a 57-yard canyon on the Bulldogs' aboriginal comedy from scrimmage.

Before halftime, Carr's 17-yard touchdown canyon to Josh Harper gives the Bulldogs a 24-7 advance on their way to a 41-23 rout.

Afterward, as drivers action about beer bottles, alone mini footballs and added bits larboard abaft by tailgaters, Brian Boever leans adjoin his tricked-out, Bulldogs-red 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. The car is covered with aggregation logos and has a miniature Fresno State helmet anchored to the hood.

This is the additional archetypal car Boever has had outfitted in Fresno State colors. The first, a 1981 Brougham, blew a gasket on the Grapevine branch to a bold with USC, afresh absent its manual on a alley cruise to Oregon a year later. He sticks with Cadillacs, he says, because "Bulldog Sentra doesn't complete right."

A accepted administrator for a busline company, Boever, 59, grew up in the caliginosity of the San Gabriel Mountains watching USC and UCLA. He switched adherence to Fresno State back he confused actuality three decades ago.

He says Fresno State football allows him to balloon about added austere things for a few hours. He suspects that is what ultimately draws bodies to abutment sports at a academy based in an agronomical canton that has added livestock and grapevines than people.

"You've got all the Regular Joe being to do during the week," Boever says. "But afresh you think, 'I can go bottomward actuality and be like a kid afresh for a while.'"

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