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The current generations of Vandals and Eagles are getting on board with viewing this as a featured game every year.

This is where Zach Borisch came in.

It is Idaho week for the Eastern Washington football team, and senior linebacker Ty Graham is being watched carefully by his Eagles teammates.

In the University of Idaho’s first game against Eastern Washington last spring, a 28-21 win, Vandals’ all-America linebacker Tre Walker made 15 tackles. If he has a similarly impressive performance Saturday when the Vandals travel to Cheney to take on the Football Championship Subdivision second-ranked Eagles, it will be because the defensive line in front of him is continuing to function at a dominating if unheralded level.

As part of its new deal with ESPN, the Big Sky Conference landed two of its football games on the entertainment company’s broadcast networks this season.

More like your grandfather’s Vandals in the 1980s, when Idaho was scoring points in the Kibbie Dome at a dizzying pace and rising to the challenge on defense to preserve Big Sky Conference victories while winning 4 league championships.

Here are three things to watch in Idaho’s homecoming matchup against Portland State.

When Mike Beaudry gets set in the shotgun against Portland State Saturday for the University of Idaho’s homecoming, the Vandals quarterback expects to see an array of exotic shifting.

Wide receiver Carson Crawford tossed a 30-yard touchdown pass to McCallan Castles midway through the fourth quarter and eighth-ranked UC Davis held on to beat Idaho 27-20 on Saturday night.

In March, UC Davis needed two fourth-quarter touchdowns to pull ahead of Idaho and defeat a Vandals’ team missing nine starters, 27-17. Here are three things to watch for in the rematch as the 1-3 Vandals and 4-0 Aggies kick off their Big Sky Conference season at 7 p.m. at Health Stadium.