I think Poly and Idaho are a wash for me right now. Poly has the unknown factor with the new staff and numerous transfers coming into the program and I'm just not a believer in Idaho's new staff. I know they lost a lot of players with Eck's departure, but the drop off was evident. We'll see how they do with another season of prep under their belts

I think PSU will be improved with Fisk, but a new coaching staff only goes so far without the resources to back the program and PSU has shown at an organizational level that they don't really care and that puts a cap on what success they may have. Aggies still win by a healthy margin.

EWU and NAU should be close, but giving it to the Jacks on home field advantage.

Idaho State, Montana, and Montana State should all win big

Weber wins over Northern Colorado

that's a tough loss if he isn't playing. He was really coming into his own last year.

I am glad that the staff and team were able to settle to QB battle this early though. Get Cleeland as many reps with the 1s as possible now. Build that chemistry so we hit the ground running against PSU.

yeah, Pinnick gave us a lot of exciting plays when he chose to run the ball, but there were too many times that held onto the ball waaay too long resulting in big losses. He was a freshman so some poor decision were to be expected, but that is something that I hope is cleaned up this year with Cleeland under center.

from what I remember of his recruiting tape is that he's definitely mobile for his size and he has a cannon for an arm. I would expect more deep shots this season compared to Pinnick.

If Plough and the team are backing him then I'm sure the correct guy was chosen. Looking forward to seeing him play live.

Thanks for the update/insight.

I know others have mentioned that Ceeland looked like he had a leg up on the others at previous practices and the team's Instagram page featured him heavily over the other QBs in a recent post (though I don't necessarily think that is a serious indication of who will be starting).

Hopefully the special teams strategy is looking different from last season now that we have a dedicated guy to lead that group. Woefully bad last year.

I noticed that too. Those were the only 2 missing from what I could tell, but strange that it was both Idaho recruits.

the only info I had was the practice schedule... So somewhere between 9 and 11

Also it looks like they are actively working on updating the roster now. It's not complete yet, but it is updating.

Anyone planning on going to the scrimmage tomorrow?

I'm not going to say it's the biggest issue or anything, but we shouldn't be the lone Big Sky team not able to get a simple task like this done on time for fall camp.

I don't know man. I looked through all of the Big Sky rosters and we are quite literally the only program to not have our roster updated to include the freshmen yet. Some of the other teams don't have roster pictures up yet, but the talk of some folks thinking we can go FBS sounds cheap when we can't even update our rosters online in a timely fashion.

I think 5 is pretty dang good considering that we will have a new QB at the helm. We were getting quite a bit of love from some of the Montana State guys who had us ranked as high as 3rd from what I saw.

With fall camp started, hopefully the roster gets updated soon. I know website maintenance was already discussed, but strange for us to be starting our first practices and our new players aren't even on the listed 2026 roster... just the couple freshman who got to campus early.

nice find, it's official now

Just as we don't know what PSU will look like under Fisk, jumping up from D2 to arguably the strongest conference in FBS is no small task to take on. We have a very talented roster and Plough will have the boys ready. If our goal is getting by the quarterfinals at the end of this season, we start with a pounding of the Vikings.

I'm not worried at all about Plough picking the right guy for the job. He's an elite QB evaluator, so whoever he picks I know will be up for leading the team.

I'd assume that Plough would like to nail down his starter sooner rather than later so he can get as many reps with the 1s as possible. It'll definitely be a different looking offense when compared to last season. Kollock and Cleeland can both run, but are gunslingers at heart from what their tape shows.