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Montana-Western Bulldogs (1-0, 1-0 Frontier) at #1 Eastern Washington Eagles (1-0, 0-0 BSC)

Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 • 6:05 p.m. PST
Roos Field (8,600) • Cheney, WA

In college football, you can't look back. And you can't look forward too much either.

Coming off a monumental victory, the top-ranked Eastern Washington University football team remains at home to face Montana Western on Saturday (Aug. 30) on Youth Football Day at Roos Field. Kickoff is 6:05 p.m. Pacific time versus the Bulldogs, a member of the NAIA and the Frontier Conference.

Down 21-14, Eastern out-scored No. 17 Sam Houston State 42-14 in the final 36 1/2 minutes to register a 56-35 win last Saturday in a matchup between two NCAA Football Championship Subdivision powerhouses. The "FCS Showcase" televised by ESPN.

The Bulldogs also played last week, and opened with a 38-6 league win over Montana Tech. The Bulldogs led at halftime 35-0 and out-gained the Orediggers 334-214 in total offense and won the turnover battle 4-0. A year ago, Montana Western was 4-6 with all of its games league counters.

Although a showdown with Pac-12 opponent Washington on Sept. 6 is ahead for the Eagles, they can't afford to look past this week's game. Eastern is 8-0 all-time versus Montana Western, and the Eagles have won their last five games versus lower-division foes dating back to 21-14 loss in 2006 to Central Washington.

"It's 11 college football players against 11 college football players and we are all looking to accomplish special things in a season and in every game," said Eastern head coach Beau Baldwin. "They are going to look at it no different than the way we looked at Oregon State a year ago and will look at Washington in two weeks. At the end of the day, its players fighting and scrapping, and they are there for a reason just like our players. They can football, and they looked very strong in their opening win on both sides of the ball. I don't care who you play, it's always going to be a challenge."

Grizalltheway wrote:Holy shit, is this game actually happening? What an embarrassment.

kalm wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Holy shit, is this game actually happening? What an embarrassment.

No shit. They certainly ain't no Oklahoma Panhandle.

Ivytalk wrote:This one should be a real slobberknocker. Can I get tickets on StubHub?

Grizalltheway wrote:

kalm wrote:
No shit. They certainly ain't no Oklahoma Panhandle.

I'm no fan of us playing games like that, but at least they were DII, not an NAIA team that hasn't even won its conference in...

Grizalltheway wrote:Holy ****, is this game actually happening? What an embarrassment.

EWURanger wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Holy ****, is this game actually happening? What an embarrassment.

I'm with ya...pretty bad. I've been a huge fan of our AD's schuduling the past couple of years, but this one is kinda...WTF, over?

AZGrizFan wrote:Was this the byproduct of moving the SHSU game up a week?

kalm wrote:Not our best performance, and our D needs to improve quickly.

Nice to see another sellout though. This never use to happen before school was in session…and against a lower division opponent.

Expansion needed.