Montana defensive tackle Jesse Sims hasn’t delivered any good-natured trash-talking this week to his school friend and teammate, Eastern Washington tight end Jayce Gilder.

Of the seven passes Eastern Washington receiver Talolo Limu-Jones has hauled in this season, five were of the touchdown variety.

The third-worst defense in the Football Championship Subdivision looked the part. So did one of its most consistent home teams.

Rarely does Eastern Washington not have a number attached its football-rich name.

Eastern Washington beat writer Ryan Collingwood predicts Week 7 games in the Big Sky Conference. He went 5-2 last week and has an overall record of 48-10.

Eastern Washington running back Antoine Custer’s smile is big and often contagious.

Running back back Antoine Custer has been a four-year mainstay, totaling 3,006 rushing and receiving yards and 32 touchdowns.

More than five minutes had burned off the halftime clock Saturday at Hornet Stadium, and a group of EWU coordinators and assistants were still half-circled around head coach Aaron Best outside the locker room. A gesticulating Best appeared frustrated as he gave his cohorts the pep talk, hoping to inspire a few adjustments for a EWU team that was getting pushed around by Sacramento State, which took a 27-14 lead at intermission. But the top-to-bottom inconsistencies that have marred the Eagles’ 2019 campaign didn’t stop.

Eastern Washington’s early-season woes continued Saturday at Hornet Stadium, falling 48-27 to Sacramento State in a Big Sky Conference game.

Eastern Washington beat writer Ryan Collingwood predicts Week 6 games in the Big Sky Conference.

Bo Levi Mitchell, who returned last month from an injury and has the Calgary Stampeders on a four-game win streak in the CFL, has to face another former EWU star QB having the best year of his professional career: Vernon Adams.