RENO, Nevada – It was the middle of the third quarter, and Eastern Washington was advancing the football with its running game, something the Eagles had done with relative success throughout the game against the Nevada Wolf Pack.
RENO, Nevada – Back-to-back losses to FCS teams have put the Eastern Washington football team in a spot that’s been all too familiar the past couple of seasons: under .500.
It is not lost on Eastern Washington’s football team just how close it is to having a 3-0 record. “Just one little thing away,” Eagles junior wide receiver Noah Cronquist said. “We’re sick of being one thing away.” It’s a …
From a historical perspective, Nevada – Eastern Washington’s opponent at noon Saturday in Reno – stands as a success story and a model for teams that may wish to climb the ranks of college football.
From staff reports HAMMOND, Louisiana – Given just four second-half possessions, Eastern Washington’s offense only mustered three points after halftime in a 28-24 nonconference loss at Southeastern Louisiana on a humid Saturday night at Strawberry Stadium. The loss dropped the …
Eastern Washington head coach Aaron Best frequently talks about how unpredictable college football can be, considering that the players are anywhere from 18 to 23 years old. From that perspective, it’s easy to see how the Eagles (1-1) lost to …
Even though Eastern Washington’s game Saturday at Southeastern Louisiana is a rematch of a contest played only 12 months ago, the Eagles’ matchup with the Lions is in many ways a mysterious one.
The SEC decimated the Mountain West. So did the Big Ten. And the Big 12. And the ACC. The Pac-12 finished the job Thursday when it stripped the Mountain West of its top football schools, leaving behind a conference in peril.
Last weekend, an interesting thing happened on Eastern Washington’s side of the line of scrimmage when its defense was on the field. Facing a third-and-long, Drake’s offense subbed in a personnel with four wide receivers, a common enough practice for …
After the conference picked up another win over an FBS opponent last weekend, the Big Sky’s matchups Saturday are almost entirely about proving the conference’s teams can handle others their own size.
Eastern Washington’s 35-32 overtime loss to Drake on Saturday was a drawn-out affair, to be sure, clocking in at 4 hours , 6 minutes. It began with the hottest kickoff temperature for an Eastern Washington home game in program history …
It would be difficult to point to one particular play or one definitive reason in explaining how, exactly, the Eastern Washington football team frittered away the opportunity it had Saturday evening at Roos Field.
It looks as if Roos Field’s moniker as “The Inferno” is going to take on a more literal meaning on Saturday afternoon, when Eastern Washington will host Drake in the Eagles’ second game of the season.
There wasn’t anything particularly remarkable, at least initially, about the three touchdowns of Efton Chism III last week against Monmouth (New Jersey). The first one, on Eastern Washington’s first drive of scrimmage, began with a catch in the flat at …
The non-league games that are usually played in August and September can be key indicators to determine the relative strength of conferences, and this year there are more of those games than ever because of the extra weekend during the FCS calendar.
As the head coach of the Drake University football team, Todd Stepsis is all about putting his players in memorable situations. It is why nearly every year the Bulldogs play teams from Dakotas. It’s why he has brought teams to …
As the Eastern Washington defense was carving up the Monmouth offense in the Eagles’ 42-27 season-opening victory on Thursday night at Roos Field, the Monmouth defense was struggling to do the same to Eastern’s counterpart. That imbalance wasn’t so common last season, when the Eagles frequently found themselves in scoring shootouts.
Late afternoon heats into one of those blistering triple-digit early evenings in eastern Washington. Carrying smoke from a wildfire, the breeze feels like an acetylene torch. It’s mid-July in Cheney, and those with sense are at a lake or within arm’s reach of unlimited cold beverages. But in a small, windowless office on the Eastern Washington campus, Aaron Best is grinding. It’s what he does.
Roster space is crunched because the pressure to succeed leads FCS teams to accept transfers from FBS schools at higher rates than they used to. Eastern Washington, as just one example, has 27 transfers on its current roster. In 2020, it had four.
Eastern Washington enters this fall trying to avoid a third straight losing season, something the program hasn’t experienced since five consecutive such seasons from 1987 through 1991. But through the previous two seasons, the Eagles have been building toward this …