As classes fired up during the first week at Drake, the Drake men’s football team geared up for the first game of the season. At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, the Bulldogs hosted Quincy University in Drake Stadium, marking the first football game of the season for any university in Iowa. This game would prove to be much different, though, as both the team and fans would soon learn.
Following the 2023–24 season, the stakes in the game against Quincy were high. The Bulldogs were unsuccessful in beating any of the out of conference teams in the previous season, so Thursday’s game was a chance for the team to put an early win on the board against a rival.