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Big Sky Conference: Week 5 Review and Power Rankings

October 3, 2016October 4, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet The Big Sky Conference week five football season is over, and if you’re a Montana State fan you’re probably looking forward to week six… because it couldn’t possibly get any worse, right? The Bobcats had a 38-21 lead heading into the fourth quarter and inexplicably let Sacramento State score 20 straight points to win the game by three. That’s... Read More

Big Sky Conference: Week 4 Review and Power Rankings

September 26, 2016September 30, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet Another week in the Big Sky is done. With that week over we have fully submerged ourselves in the conference play. Many of the games were very good games, such as Montana and Cal Poly, as well as Montana State and North Dakota. Sacramento State gave it a good effort to get into the win column with a mad... Read More

Big Sky Conference: Week 3 Review and Power Rankings

September 19, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet Week three of the Big Sky Conference football season is in the books and some teams got some needed wins this week to either save their season or help their season along. The biggest win of the week happened in Cheney Washington as the Eagles took down MVFC opponent Northern Iowa in a shootout. The Eagles scored the winning... Read More

Big Sky Conference: Week 2 Review and Power Rankings

September 12, 2016September 30, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet We’re now two weeks into the Big Sky football season. We’re now one week into this column. Sorry, I went on vacation. The college football season is still brand new but there has been plenty of excitement in the league so far this year. The Big Sky started the year off pretty shaky with most of the teams in... Read More

2016 Big Sky Preview: Weber State

September 2, 2016August 27, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet2015 Record: 6-5 (5-3) Key Returners: Jadrian Clark, Eric Wilkes, Treshawn Garrett, Cameron Livingston, Emmett Tela, Taron Johnson Key Losses: Josh Kealamakia The Weber State Wildcats found themselves in the hunt for a playoff spot last season but ultimately fell short of their goal when all was said and done. The Wildcats basically won the games they were supposed to... Read More

2016 Big Sky Preview: UC-Davis

August 31, 2016August 27, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet2015 Record: 2-9 (2-6) Key Returners: Ben Scott, Manusamoa Luuga, Chris Martin Key Losses: Alex Cannon, Brady Stuart, Ramon Vargas The battle for last place last season was a three way battle and UC-Davis was one of those teams battling for a spot at the bottom of the pile. That’s not a terrific place to be, but unfortunately for the... Read More

2016 Big Sky Preview: Southern Utah

August 29, 2016August 27, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet2015 Record: 8-4 (7-1) Key Returners: Kyle Hannemann, Mike Sharp, Keita Calhoun, Ty Rutledge, Steven Wroblewski Key Losses: Ammon Olson, Malik Brown, Justin Brown, James Cowser, LeShaun Sims, Miles Killebrew The Southern Utah Thunderbirds made some personal history last season by winning their first Big Sky Conference title. The reward for winning the conference? A road trip to Sam Houston... Read More

2016 Big Sky Preview: Sacramento State

August 26, 2016August 27, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet2015 Record: 2-9 (1-7) Key Returners: Jordan Robinson, Nate Ketteringham, Isiah Hennie, Manoah Pearson Key Losses: Shane Harrison, Brad Cornish Last year is probably a year the Hornets would like to forget, finishing the season at 2-9, with one of their wins coming against a Division II team. Many of the Hornets losses weren’t even close contests. Needless to say,... Read More

2016 Big Sky Preview: Portland State

August 24, 2016August 27, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet2015 Record: 9-3 (6-2) Key Returners: Davond Dade, Xavier Coleman, Jonathan Gonzales, Alex Kuresa Key Losses: David Jones, Thomas Carter III, Patrick Onwuasor Portland State found themselves at the top of the food chain very temporarily last season. They shocked the college football world when they opened the season in a very soggy Pullman, Washington and knocked off Mike Leach’s... Read More

2016 Big Sky Preview: Northern Arizona

August 22, 2016August 7, 2016 Brad Reed

Tweet2015 Record: 7-4 (5-3) Key Returners: Case Cookus, Emmanual Butler Key Departures: Casey Jahn, Dejzon Walker, RJ Rickert, Alex Holmes The Lumberjacks are coming off of a pretty good season, finishing the year at 7-4 and just missing the FCS playoffs. A crushing season ending loss to conference champion Southern Utah ended their chance at a playoff spot. There’s a... Read More