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On the Eastern Washington football team, there is a group that watches film beyond the scope expected by position coaches. Nolan Ulm referred to them Tuesday as “the grinders.”

There was a time earlier this season when the trajectory of the Northern Colorado football team was looking up.

DaJean Wells remembers the eerie absence of others.

MISSOULA – A full game with redshirt freshman Jake Schakel at quarterback led to big games for Eastern Washington’s receivers.

MISSOULA – The moment didn’t seem just, watching Jake Schakel hold his hands to his helmet at the Montana 13-yard line.

MISSOULA – If there is one Big Sky football team outside of Montana that knows Michael Wortham well, it is the Eastern Washington Eagles.

Like most of his Eastern Washington teammates, defensive end Tariq May has never played at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in Missoula. So, Saturday’s game there will be his first.

As early as when he was in fourth grade, it was clear to those around him that Jake Schakel was going to be a quarterback.

Long considered one of the best leagues in the Football Championship Subdivision, the Big Sky Conference is still positioned to advance a team to the national championship, something it has done three of the past four seasons.

The play that ended Nate Bell’s day on Saturday looked much like so many have for the redshirt sophomore quarterback this year.

On a rainy, windy Saturday afternoon at Roos Field in Cheney, the Sacramento State Hornets did nothing to obscure their single-minded gameplan.