Portland State at Northern Colorado

[JALMOND]

Ugh, I hate these early games. Kickoff scheduled for 12 noon MST from Nottingham Field in Greeley, CO. Portland State heads to play the strong Northern Colorado team. The Bears play their last game of the year and hope to get their first win of the year. The Vikings still have one more game left next week and still harbor some hope of a playoff shot. The Vikings will start Connor Kavanaugh at quarterback where he has started every game so far for the Vikings. The Bears counter with Seth Lobato at quarterback. By their recent play, the Bears are not the same team as the start, showing improvement every week. However, that has not translated into any wins so far. Weather should be perfect with partly cloudy skies and temps near 60 at kickoff.

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TV: no TV

[EWURanger]

Watching now.

TD UNC on opening drive.

[JALMOND]

UNC---Hurley 9 yd TD run PAT good

12:30 left 1st

UNC 7
PSU 0

[EWURanger]

UNC dude trapped that. Big Sky refs at work again.

[JALMOND]

UNC---missed 39yd FG

UNC 7
PSU 0

[JALMOND]

UNC stopped PSU on downs

1:56 left 1st

UNC 7
PSU 0

UNC ball UNC 23

[EWURanger]

Kind of a snoozer so far.

[JALMOND]

Not much happening.

PSU ball PSU 10

6:24 left 2nd

UNC 7
PSU 0

[JALMOND]

PSU---Monahan 15 yd TD catch from Kavanaugh PAT good

54 secs left 2nd

PSU 7
UNC 7

[JALMOND]

Halftime

PSU 7
UNC 7

[JALMOND]

PSU---Brown 51 yd FG good

PSU 10
UNC 7

[JALMOND]

UNC---Gunn 13 yd TD catch from Lobato PAT good

6:52 left 3rd

UNC 14
PSU 10

[JALMOND]

PSU---Brown 46 yd FG good

2:26 left 3rd

UNC 14
PSU 13

[JALMOND]

PSU---Brown 30 yd FG good

12:09 left 4th

PSU 16
UNC 14

[JALMOND]

PSU---Shead 70 yd INT return TD PAT good

3:54 left 4th

PSU 23
UNC 14

[JALMOND]

UNC---Kaman FG good

2:28 left 4th

PSU 23
UNC 17

[JALMOND]

Final

Portland State 23
Northern Colorado 17

Bears had TD nullified with an illegal block call with 6 secs left.

[EWURanger]

Close one.

[BigSkyBears]

Horrible season for UNC. Not sure how we're going to recruit better football players with a shitty record like 0-11.

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Horrible season for UNC. Not sure how we're going to recruit better football players with a shitty record like 0-11.

Shitty record!? It's a perfect record!

[EWURanger]

Horrible season for UNC. Not sure how we're going to recruit better football players with a shitty record like 0-11.

The shitty thing for UNC is that they got a lot better as the season went on. So many close games just coming up short. I think if UNC and ISU played today, UNC wins by a couple TD's.

Tough to go 0-11.....but when you have a Division II on your schedule, you HAVE to win that game.

[JALMOND]

Horrible season for UNC. Not sure how we're going to recruit better football players with a shitty record like 0-11.

A couple of those early games you played could have a different outcome if they were played now, with the improvement your team has shown. Success in the Big Sky starts with a good quarterback and you have a great up and coming one in Lobato. Those last two drives were really impressive that he led you guys on. I'm really impressed with your quarterback.

[Gil Dobie]

Guess UNC got their perfect record, NDSU didn't.

Amazing how far UNC fell after leaving DII. The other former conference members are doing much better, NDSU, UND, USD and SDSU.

[free7694]

Guess UNC got their perfect record, NDSU didn't.

Amazing how far UNC fell after leaving DII. The other former conference members are doing much better, NDSU, UND, USD and SDSU.

You see, we let a guy (Scott Downing) coach our team for 5 years who was about as qualified to be the head coach of a Division I football team as as, well, anyone that has played NCAA Football on Xbox. Actually, the going theory for a while was that Downing's staff was using an Xbox in the coaches' box to call plays, but I digress.

Thanks to the Downing years, our senior class this year consisted of guys, aside from Patrick Walker, that ranged in talent from mediocre to absolutely abysmal. There was, however, a lot of talent in our freshman and sophomore classes this season and Earnest Collins pulled a class as an incoming coach that was better than anything that Downing managed.

I really think we'll improve under Collins, and quickly. A .500 record should be very doable in 2012.

[Mvemjsunpx]

Guess UNC got their perfect record, NDSU didn't.

Amazing how far UNC fell after leaving DII. The other former conference members are doing much better, NDSU, UND, USD and SDSU.

You see, we let a guy (Scott Downing) coach our team for 5 years who was about as qualified to be the head coach of a Division I football team as as, well, anyone that has played NCAA Football on Xbox. Actually, the going theory for a while was that Downing's staff was using an Xbox in the coaches' box to call plays, but I digress.

Thanks to the Downing years, our senior class this year consisted of guys, aside from Patrick Walker, that ranged in talent from mediocre to absolutely abysmal. There was, however, a lot of talent in our freshman and sophomore classes this season and Earnest Collins pulled a class as an incoming coach that was better than anything that Downing managed.

I really think we'll improve under Collins, and quickly. A .500 record should be very doable in 2012.

The Jace Davis suspension didn't help, either.