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Big Sky notebook: Montana-Montana State rivalry game attracts ESPN’s College GameDay

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 15, 2022

With the often playoff-bound Eastern Washington football team out of contention this year and destined for nothing better than an eighth-place finish in the Big Sky standings, the intrigue of this final regular-season weekend lies far from Cheney.

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Idaho football coach Jason Eck offers space for players to grieve on-campus deaths

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 17, 2022

On Monday evenings, the University of Idaho football team typically has a meeting focused on events larger than football as coaches seek to get players to bond as teammates and to gain perspective on what they do as student-athletes relative to the larger world.

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Idaho loses first home game of season to UC Davis 44-26

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 12, 2022

MOSCOW, Idaho – Honoring late teammate Collin Sather on senior day was the most satisfying thing the Idaho Vandals did Saturday.

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Things to watch: Run defense crucial in Idaho’s matchup with UC Davis

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 11, 2022

MOSCOW, Idaho – After dispatching Eastern Washington University 48-16 last Saturday and ensuring a winning record for the first time since 2016, the Idaho Vandals (6-3, 5-1 Big Sky Conference) are tightly focused on their biggest goal, gaining a spot in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

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‘We are a tough bunch to cover’: Idaho’s offense humming under first-year coach Jason Eck

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 10, 2022

Boom! This is what the University of Idaho football team can look forward to every time its offense takes the field.

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Crystal ball: Idaho should get plenty of postseason awards

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 9, 2022

With only two regular season games remaining in Idaho's unforeseeable season, it's time to do everyone's favorite thing: speculate.

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Dan Thompson: With Idaho improved across the board, Eastern Washington can’t let rivalry loss become commonplace

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 5, 2022

At the end of his time answering postgame questions from the media, first-year Idaho coach Jason Eck pointed out the trophy on the desk in front of him.

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Hayden Hatten hauls in four touchdown grabs to lead Idaho in rout of rival Eastern Washington

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 5, 2022

MOSCOW, Idaho – A 2-foot-tall brass trophy that looked like it had come out of deep storage and hadn’t seen daylight for decades loomed over University of Idaho coach Jason Eck and players seated at a table at the UI-Eastern Washington postgame news conference – the old Governor’s Cup for which Idaho and EWU used to play.

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‘The most fun I ever had in coaching’: Former Idaho football coach John L. Smith inducted into Vandals Hall of Fame

UPDATED: Sat., Nov. 5, 2022

In the early 1980s, the University of Idaho athletics department collected John Smiths like people collect beanie babies or baseball cards.

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Things to watch: Idaho could rely on defense to put away pesky Eastern Washington

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 4, 2022

Idaho (5-3, 4-1 in the Big Sky Conference and ranked 15th in the Football Championship Subdivision) can ensure its first winning season since 2016, when it went 9-4.

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Group of six Idaho ‘original gangsters’ proud of growth football program has seen

UPDATED: Thu., Nov. 3, 2022

Variously standing and sitting in a loose huddle on the Kibbie Dome turf, Roshaun Johnson, Logan Floyd, Dalton Cash, Nate DeGraw, Connor Whitney and Zach Borisch were the object of good-natured banter from their University of Idaho teammates passing by as they left practice.

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Big Sky notebook: Weber State, Sacramento State offenses find common ground in run-first approach

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 2, 2022

Two of the best rushing teams in the FCS will play Saturday in a crucial Big Sky game, one that demonstrates just how much the conference’s best teams have successfully leaned on their ground games this season.