This is going to be a shoot out. 7-7 Ew-MT 4 minutes into first.

14-10 EW after first quarter.

21-10 EWU with 11:55 to go in the 2nd Q. Big plays and very entertaining.

Two targeting flags on Montana on two consecutive plays. First one was pure targeting and a dangerous hit and they overruled it. Horrible! Second one overruled also. Dirty football by Montana!

second one was by Hauck. After the hit, you can see him pushing and kneeing the guy. Very dirty in the backfield.

Man, I dislike Montana more than EWU!

21-20 EWU at the half. This game is a war!

On that final play you can see the defender twisting Barrette’s ankle. I remember them doing that when we beat them up there in 2018. 1 penalty called on EWU, 0 on Montana

Montana announcers are real homers. I wish they would bring in non-partisan announcers. MT benefiting from the officials calls. Maybe the rowdy crowd influencing the yellow flags?

And Villanova advances. I don’t see them getting past the next round.

I think these are ESPN announcers. The color guy keeps calling him Barrier, which no Big Sky announcer would say.

2 TDS off punts killing EWU

And a missed trip by Hauck on the scramble

MT D playing tough in the third.

Wow...Montana plays dirty! Robby Hauck...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!

EWU special teams are not good...

I'm kinda hoping Montana can pull this off. Frankly just kinda tired of the constant Barriere talk from the conference

44-28 MT end of the third.

MT looking like the better team. Barriere appears to be nursing a sore rib cage.

Yeah, except MT getting away with a lot of elbows and questionable dirty plays.

Like I said, my true preference would be for both teams to lose. I'm just tired of Barriere specifically.

EWU should be worried about hitting Barriere's pitch count limit. :razz:

I think they'll pull him once he gets close to 100!

If my math is right, EWU has run 105 plays. Griz less than 50

Well, Barriere "only" got to 80 pitches. :lol:

WTF was Best doing going for two with 5 seconds left, down 16?! Give me a break. The only possible reason I could see for doing that is to run all the graduating seniors out there for one final play?

Didnt see that coming. EW has like 600 yards of offense to 368 but MT defense gets the game ball based on big plays when they needed it.

This MT team beats J street if they get the opportunity.

57 points on only 368 yards. How the heck does that happen?

Sounds like special teams were key in this one. EWU is atrocious in the kicking game, and say what you will about Hauck, but he demands all three phases of his football teams are played at a high level. I remember Marc Mariani about a decade ago, the kid was leading the country in return yards, and you don't do that without having great scheme and real effort on blocking. Think the kid got drafted.

pick six, blocked punt got TD, short punt returned to the 5. That’s 21 points on 5 yards!

That will definitely do it.