MOSCOW, Idaho – The Idaho Vandals looked in a mirror Saturday. Staring back was the team that had played the current Football Bowl Subdivision leader nearly to a draw.
MOSCOW, Idaho – After their game Saturday evening in Moscow, somebody will take possession of the former Governor’s Cup trophy that Idaho coach Jason Eck dug out of storage and repurposed with a strip of white athletic tape and a black marker into the “Che Scow Cup.”
It was just about this time last year when the Eastern Washington football team took to its home field for a matchup against the Idaho Vandals that, on the outside, wasn’t predicted to be all that close.
MOSCOW, Idaho – Saturday’s home game against Eastern Washington may determine for 5-3 Idaho, 2-2 in the Big Sky Conference, whether its glass is half empty or half full.
MOSCOW, Idaho – Many strange and, for Idaho, just enough fortunate things happened in a 34-29 win against Cal Poly with a degree of difficulty that was off the charts.
Having split a pair of games against two Football Bowl Subdivision opponents (lost to Oregon, beat Wyoming) and playing six nationally ranked teams in the past seven weeks, Idaho, coming off a 38-7 drubbing at the hands of Montana State, is in desperate need of a bye.
Montana State football coach Brent Vigen opened his weekly news conference on Monday by expressing a sentiment that every Big Sky football coach says, at least publicly, whenever given the chance.