Spartan squad up in Bozeman.

My Dad coached 2A football out in small town Oregon back in the mid to late 70's, they ran 8 man football and maybe suited 25-30 kids for a game. When a few kids got hurt, it showed on the field.

Sounds like target practice before the game!

That being said, the new unit has now had several weeks to gel together. Best performance so far @ Idaho, but need their A+ game Saturday night. Coombs and his defensive captains are going to be putting in a ton of hours this week.

Check out this Mercer @ Western Carolina game from last week...down to the wire and Mercer escaped with a win, wow.

Weber @ Montana State:


Montana State @ Northern Colorado:


Montana State @ Cal Poly:


Idaho State @ Montana State:


Montana State @ Northern Arizona:


South Dakota State @ Montana State:

Explaining to my Dad the state of the season and we're both concluding that If we don't beat Idaho tomorrow, we don't make the playoffs. That damn Mercer result is killing us.

Of note, it's two Big Sky teams with two losses that are still in the Top 10.

Definitely something Shelton and Plough need to scheme up a bit more. Obviously, it's a QB preservation thing right, and a RFr. QB at that.

Yeah, but their special teams actually played well...and they got 2 picks and a fumble recovery to end the first half...all that and Davis still only lost by 1 point.