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Cats on the prowl: MSU not overlooking Illinois State

For Montana State coach Brent Vigen, the mystery isn’t how Illinois State won four straight road playoff games to advance to Monday’s Division I Football Championship against his Bobcats.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 HOURS, 13 MINUTES AGO

FCS Playoffs: Checking off that to-do list

Paul Brott has been a mainstay on a Montana State defensive line that had to retool some after last year’s FCS title game appearance.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 DAY, 4 HOURS AGO

Full Count: Pretty much the same thing over and over

Most people would celebrate their team’s 13-2 season, as they should, but man did the Bobcats knock some shine off that record.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 3 DAYS, 17 HOURS AGO

Bigfork's Jantzen wins heavyweight at Bob Kinney

The Bigfork wrestling teams went their separate ways the weekend of Dec. 12-13, with one Viking climbing atop the podium at Superior’s Bob Kinney Classic.
BIGFORK EAGLE | UPDATED 1 WEEK AGO

Back-to-back Cats

BOZEMAN — Montana State made history Saturday, winning the Super Brawl with a superb finish that pushed the Bobcats into another FCS title game.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 DAY, 13 HOURS AGO

Dowler twins flip starring roles again

BOZEMAN — For three years the casual Big Sky Conference football fan knew about Taco Dowler, the Billings West star turned Montana State speedster.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 3 DAYS AGO

Super Brawl: Something has to give

The “Super Brawl” fast approaches, marking the second meeting of intrastate rivals Montana and Montana State in four weeks, and you wonder if it might go different.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 5 DAYS AGO

Super Brawl Capsule

MSU is 3-0 at home in the semifinals and hasn’t lost at home to a Big Sky opponent in Brent Vigen’s tenure (22-0)
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 5 DAYS AGO

Tough to keep up

Any college football team would be happy with 200 rushing yards in a single game; on Friday night against Stephen F. Austin, the MSU Bobcats did that in a half.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 6 DAYS AGO

Full Count: Of Bobcats, Grizzlies and butterflies

The beautiful Great Divide Trophy is not at stake Saturday when the Grizzlies and Bobcats battle in what we’re now calling “The Super Brawl” in Bozeman.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 1 WEEK, 6 DAYS AGO

It has happened, just not like this

It turns out the Grizzlies and Bobcats have played each other twice the same season before.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS AGO

Uncharted waters: Griz roll past South Dakota as semi at MSU looms

MISSOULA — Get ready for Brawl II.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 2 DAYS AGO

Mostly lateral, very little hook

MISSOULA — Of all of Michael Wortham’s scintillating plays on a record-setting Saturday, perhaps the best was the hook-and-lateral on third-and-20 late in Montana’s 52-20 FCS quarterfinal win over South Dakota.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 3 DAYS AGO

Cats, Griz capsules: FCS Quarterfinals

When the Lumberjacks have the ball: Former Griz Sam Vidlak is the Southland offensive player of year, and has thrown for 2,447 yards and 21 touchdowns with six interceptions.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 5 DAYS AGO

Vidlak: Great numbers, vanilla comments

You can say two things about Stephen F. Austin quarterback Sam Vidlak, the former Griz QB turned Southland Conference player of the year: Awesome stats; vanilla quotes.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 2 WEEKS, 5 DAYS AGO

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