Fans who took their time getting from their RVs to the stands at Roos Field on Saturday may have missed Eastern Washington’s fastest start of the season.
Early on during spring practices, it was clear to Brandon Johnson-Farrell that Eastern Washington’s football team was going to find a way to use its two new junior transfer quarterbacks, Michael Wortham and Jared Taylor.
After four years playing offensive line at Eastern Washington, Aaron Best stuck around for the 2000 and 2001 seasons as a student assistant and a graduate assistant.
HILLSBORO, Ore. – All season, Eastern Washington’s improved play on offense and a neutral performance on special teams had been enough to cover for what has still been, for the second year in a row, one of the most porous defenses in the FCS.
During the eight football seasons from 2012 through 2019, the one constant on the schedules of Eastern Washington and Portland State was their annual matchup at the end of the regular season.
It’s still a couple of weeks until Eastern Washington plays Montana State, but it appears that when the Eagles do face the Bobcats in Bozeman, they will play a Bobcats team that isn’t just contending for a Big Sky title.
Eastern Washington produced its best defensive performance of the Big Sky season in Saturday’s 31-23 victory over Weber State on Saturday at Roos Field, and in doing so relied on the return of a senior and the emergence of a freshman.
