That wasn’t much of a fight the Idaho State Bengals put up Saturday, in a 70-24 loss to the Montana Grizzlies, but you know they are chasing history. I just learned that in 2008 the Bengals gave up a Big Sky-record 494 points. They’ve given up 432 already this season, and have games left against [...]

Where do I begin? For starters, North Dakota speedster Greg Hardin had a game and a half against a Grizzly defense that seemed ill-suited to stop him. The 170-pounder caught the winning touchdown with 12 seconds left in UND’s 40-34 victory over the Montana Grizzlies, Saturday, but by halftime he’d set a school record. The old single-game [...]

The Alerus Center is just starting to fill up for Saturday’s football game between the Montana Grizzlies and University of North Dakota. It’s a first for the Big Sky Conference, which just welcomed UND into the fold this season, but not for the two teams. This will be their 20th meeting, and there are more [...]

The Montana Grizzlies’ 40-17 win at Northern Colorado Saturday, complete with bone-chilling winds and crazy plays, smacked of the trip I made to Greeley, Colo., in 2008. On that trip, Chase Reynolds had his first 100-yard game and the Griz won 41-20. OK, it was a good 25 degrees warmer in 2008, but you get [...]

Mick Delaney almost saw two school records in his first game as the Montana Grizzlies’ head football coach. In their 35-24 win over South Dakota Saturday (check out the related video), the Griz gained a school-record 34 first downs while running 98 plays – one short of the 99 they ran against South Dakota State [...]

Here’s my story on the Grizzly tight ends that ran in Wednesday’s Missoulian. It includes, but is not limited to, Greg Hardy, so don’t be fooled by the online headline. Though he certainly deserves to lead things off. The fact that Hardy comes from an 8-man football program isn’t lost on a guy from a [...]

Before I get to the things I wish I’d written about the Cat-Griz game – and there’s plenty – here’s my prediction for the all-Big Sky Conference football team. It’ll be released Tuesday, and I have to say: I am laughably bad at these things. But I suppose that’s part of the fun, and I [...]

If Saturday’s 32-7 win by the Montana Grizzlies over D-II Western Oregon wasn’t always pretty, at least it had plenty to write about. Not that I got to everything. For instance: a) Brody McKnight hit a record six field goals for the Griz, but he’ll be the first to tell you he needed help. Both [...]

Time and opportunity ran out on now-No. 21 Eastern Washington Saturday in its 17-14 loss to No. 10 Montana, and it won’t get any easier for the Eagles, who have No. 4 Montana State this Saturday. As noted earlier, it was a bizarre game full of big plays that threatened to turn the tide either [...]

There was a lot to like about the Montana Grizzlies’ 37-23 victory over Cal Poly Saturday, from Jabin Sambrano’s 96-yard return of the opening kickoff to Dan Moore’s win-clinching touchdown, his second of the game. Bill Speltz mused that sophomore quarterback Jordan Johnson quite possibly “arrived” with his play in the second half Saturday. We [...]