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"Along the lines that it seems like just yesterday, here we go. That's right it's game week for Montana football, with the inaugural blog, daily program, coach's show and road trip.
Hi everybody Mick Holien here as the Grizzlies start the countdown for the nearly 800-mile trip to Laramie where they meet the Cowboys for the first time since 1997.
I'm kicking off year 30 of University of Montana play-by-play and can you already tell, I'm excited.
But make no mistake, venturing to War Memorial Stadium, the nation's highest elevated Division 1 facility, promises to be quite an early season barometer of a Grizzly team looking to build on a double-digit win season and their return to the post season after just a one year hiatus.
Wyoming returns 17 starters, nine of them on defense, but sees three-time FCS titlist coach Craig Bohl taking the helm after his amazing run at North Dakota State University.
It promises to be a sellout at Jonah Field where the Cowboys averaged a tad less than 25,000 last season.
The two schools were perennial foes from 1951-1963, with the majority of the matchups contested in Billings. The Cowboys have never lost to Montana in 13 previous meetings.
A member of the Mountain West Conference, Wyoming finished 5-7 last year with one of the victories coming over Northern Colorado (15-7).
But the Cowboys won just 16 league games in Dave Christianson's five-year tenure, bringing about the rift that saw Bohl make the move from the dynasty he headed at NDSU.
Knowing it was a start from scratch, season Bohl has told his 24 seniors they are prime to get this program on track, and will receive rings after the program registers its inaugural league title.
He has brought his pro-style offense so successful in the Dakotas but returns a just a single starter on the offensive line where tackle Jake Jones leads the way with 24 starts.
The remainder of prospective starters in the offensive trenches have just 23 starts among them.
Bookended by the Snowy Range to the west and the Laramie Range to the east, War Memorial Stadium, which features a Field Turf surface, rests at 7,220 feet yet Money Magazine tabbed Laramie as one of the top retirement locations in the country.
In the midst of an 8-4 season in 1997 Montana lost to Wyoming 28-13.
And away we go"
"Along the lines that it seems like just yesterday, here we go. That's right it's game week for Montana football, with the inaugural blog, daily program, coach's show and road trip.
Hi everybody Mick Holien here as the Grizzlies start the countdown for the nearly 800-mile trip to Laramie where they meet the Cowboys for the first time since 1997.
I'm kicking off year 30 of University of Montana play-by-play and can you already tell, I'm excited.
But make no mistake, venturing to War Memorial Stadium, the nation's highest elevated Division 1 facility, promises to be quite an early season barometer of a Grizzly team looking to build on a double-digit win season and their return to the post season after just a one year hiatus.
Wyoming returns 17 starters, nine of them on defense, but sees three-time FCS titlist coach Craig Bohl taking the helm after his amazing run at North Dakota State University.
It promises to be a sellout at Jonah Field where the Cowboys averaged a tad less than 25,000 last season.
The two schools were perennial foes from 1951-1963, with the majority of the matchups contested in Billings. The Cowboys have never lost to Montana in 13 previous meetings.
A member of the Mountain West Conference, Wyoming finished 5-7 last year with one of the victories coming over Northern Colorado (15-7).
But the Cowboys won just 16 league games in Dave Christianson's five-year tenure, bringing about the rift that saw Bohl make the move from the dynasty he headed at NDSU.
Knowing it was a start from scratch, season Bohl has told his 24 seniors they are prime to get this program on track, and will receive rings after the program registers its inaugural league title.
He has brought his pro-style offense so successful in the Dakotas but returns a just a single starter on the offensive line where tackle Jake Jones leads the way with 24 starts.
The remainder of prospective starters in the offensive trenches have just 23 starts among them.
Bookended by the Snowy Range to the west and the Laramie Range to the east, War Memorial Stadium, which features a Field Turf surface, rests at 7,220 feet yet Money Magazine tabbed Laramie as one of the top retirement locations in the country.
In the midst of an 8-4 season in 1997 Montana lost to Wyoming 28-13.
And away we go"
