Football Preview

A SPECIAL PRODUCTION Thursday, August 30, 2018

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EWU’s Swoop and WSU’s Butch T. Cougar have fun with popcorn at the Village Centre Cinemas in Airway Heights.

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3 John Blanchette takes a look at the best football movies and picks his all-Big Screen squad.

6-7 WSU’s Peyton Pelluer, EWU’s Jay-Tee Tiuli and Idaho’s Kaden Elliss don’t go easy on opposing offenses.

15 Former Shadle Park standout Brett Rypien is ready for his season year at Boise State.

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26-27 Team-by-team college football schedules 28 Team-by-team NFL schedules

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All the right movies

freak shooting his bladder with clean urine, the starting quarterback getting a DUI, the backup quarterback being expelled for having the coach’s daughter take a test, sexual assault and alcohol rehab. But the coach wins enough to save his job. That sounds about right.

14. Diner (1982). Not a football movie? You do realize the entire thing turns on the Baltimore Colts trivia quiz Steve Guttenberg gives his fiancée to prove her worth as a wife. By the way, what were the original Colts colors?

13. The Blind Side (2009).

Coaches should hate football movies more than anybody else.

For every do-gooder-builder-of-men Denzel Washington in “Remember the Titans,” there’s five Jon Voights, Craig T. Nelsons or G.D. Spradlins. “Rudy” turned Dan Devine into a schmuck. And poor Hugh Freeze. Not only did he cheat and get outed for keeping escort services thriving while coaching Ole Miss, he has to wear this movie making him look like a buffoon in his high school days while Sandra Bullock called him from the stands to question his game plan.

12. All the Right Moves

(1983). So why didn’t Nickerson have Rifleman keep the ball? Or take the safety? For that matter, why did Norman Dale want to use Jimmy Chitwood as a decoy on the last play in “Hoosiers?”

Who vets these Hollywood game plans?

11. The Slaughter Rule (2002). Six-man football in Montana played by kids cut from their high school varsity, coached by a societal discard who sells newspapers fresh off the press in the bars. The whole what-it-means-to-be-a-man thing actually gets some multi-dimensional treatment, which is why it had to be an indie movie. Between this and Mike Webster in “Concussion,” David Morse plays the two most tortured souls in cinema football.

10. Knute Rockne, All American (1940). “Rock, sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go out there with all they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper. I don’t know where I’ll be then, Rock, but... I dare you not to think of Leslie Nielsen finishing that thought with, ‘But I won’t smell too good, that’s for sure.’ “ 9. Leatherheads (2008).

It’s “His Girl Friday” meets Coen

Brothers lite. But George Clooney’s comedy about the 1925 Duluth Bulldogs speaks to at least one thing the modern fan is feeling when his character says, “Goddamn rules are ruining this game.”

8. Invincible (2006). Vince Papale went from season ticket holder to special teams kamikaze.

In Philly, no less. So, yeah, it’s “Rocky” without the pet turtles or “Eye of the Tiger.” Or the seven numbing sequels.

7. Jerry Maguire (1996).

OK, not a football movie. Tom Cruise could have been a movie agent, a sub-prime bandito or a Mafia hit man with a crisis of conscience. But Rod Tidwell remains the most compelling football character written for the big-budget screen – and I dig that about him. Also a Drew Bledsoe cameo for you Cougs.

6. North Dallas Forty (1979). It would have been nice if Don Meredith had agreed to star in the role that was based on him. Or almost anybody other than Mac Davis, really. Pad up, Joe Bob. 5. Big Fan (2009). OK, they didn’t have to have him living with his mother. Patton Oswalt’s Paul from Staten Island is pitiful enough. Especially when he’s scripting his calls to sports talk radio. We know this guy. Too many of us have been this guy.

4. Brian’s Song (1971).

Yeah, it’s getting a little dusty in here. Shut up.

3. Friday Night Lights (2004). It succeeded as a book, a movie and a TV series in virtually equal measures. Take that, Bill Shakespeare.

2. The Longest Yard (1974). Accept no substitutes, especially if Adam Sandler’s involved. Burt Reynolds remains the most authentic Hollywood quarterback, and not just for the two tight spirals he delivers to Ray Nitschke’s nethers.

1. Horse Feathers (1932).

The Marx Brothers explore cheating in ways the SEC never imagined, resorting to kidnapping and chariots to propel Huxley College over the ringers of rival Darwin. Groucho: “Go to college, meet all the beautiful girls, get yourself a coed.” Chico: “Hah! I got a coed.

Last week for $18, I got a coed with two pair of pants.”

Talk about football under siege.

WR: Rod Tidwell “Jerry Maguire”

WR: David Wooderson “Dazed and Confused”

Returner: Forrest Gump “Forrest Gump”

Ed Lawrence (John Goodman), “Everybody’s All-American,” “There’s no such thing as a late hit!”

Linebackers Luther “Shark” Lavay (Lawrence Taylor), “Any Given Sunday.” Saws QB Willie Beaman’s Suburban in half.

Becky “Ice Box” O’Shea (Shawna Waldron), “Little Giants.” Icebox doesn’t like boys, except that one.

Charles Jefferson (Forest Whitaker), “Fast Times at Ridgemont High.” Needs two tickets to Earth, Wind and Fire.

Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler), “The Waterboy.”

“That’s what I call high quality H2O.” Cornerbacks Stefen Djordjevic (Tom Cruise), “All the Right Moves.”

He didn’t quit, you quit.

Trumaine (Wesley Snipes), “Wildcats.” Best skill: hot-wiring cars.

Safeties Earl Wilkinson (Michael Jace), “The Replacements.” Released from prison by the governor to play.

Petey Jones (Donald Faison),

‘Rudy’ doesn’t get to suit up in this best-of football list

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Too many headlines about concussions. Plummeting participation numbers.

Snowflaky rules changes. And don’t get started on the anthem business.

The football establishment has mobilized and its message is clear: football is under siege.

Except it’s not. But I know what should be.

Football movies.

C’mon, they’re the cliché combo meal: you pick an entrée (the moral price of winning at all costs, the plucky and ragtag underdogs, the old-pro-hanging-on vs. the hotshot rookie), a side (the despicable coach, the evil owner with agenda, the often-disapproving love interest) and a drink (the football-obsessed town, the party-hearty players and adoring females, the goofball-loser-fat-guy comic relief).

These days, the Marvel franchise movies are the Eagles and Alabama of Hollywood; football flicks are the Browns and UTEP. And yet if you’re channel-surfing and waiting for the pizza guy or Uber Eats to bring that late-night grub, you’re all but praying to hit on a football movie – one you’ve seen, preferably in progress. Lame as they might be the first time around, many of them have an oddly high re-watchability factor.

Which is good, because right now “Varsity Blues” is in the rotation

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Burt Reynolds (with ball) portrayed the most authentic Hollywood quarterback in “The Longest Yard.” on cable more often than “Shawshank.”

So naturally you want to know my Top 25 – and, no, not Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Washington...

First some caveats: My idea of a football movie is pretty elastic. I almost included the filmed-in-Seattle “Twice in a Lifetime” if only because Gene Hackman character is a season-ticket holder and at one point says, “This town would be nothing without the Seahawks.”

Which was true enough in 1985 when the movie was made, and only slightly less now.

No “Rudy.” Ever. Joe Montana hated it and so do I. Leave it to Notre Dame to allow itself to be used to make a celluloid version of a participation trophy.

I can’t come up with 25. You’ll have to settle for 15. But I’ll give you a JV team: The Express, Varsity Blues, Heaven Can Wait, Any Given Sunday, Remember the Titans, Draft Day, Paper Lion, Everybody’s All-American, The Replacements, Gridiron Gang, Little Giants (Steve Emtman cameo for you Huskies), On to the rankings: 15. The Program (1993).

Let’s see, in one season the ESU Timberwolves deal with a steroid

The Hollywood All-Stars

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Offense Quarterback Uncle Rico (Jon Gries), “Napoleon Dynamite.” He’d have taken state, no doubt.

Running back Julian Washington (LL Cool J), “Any Given Sunday.” Really did punch Jamie Foxx in the face.

Wide receivers Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), “Jerry Maguire.” Show him the money.

David Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey), “Dazed and Confused.” He made all-district; Richard McGrath didn’t.

Phil Elliott (Nick Nolte), “North Dallas Forty.” Too bad he confused brains with luck.

Tight end Roberta Muldoon (John Lithgow), “The World According to Garp.” In the NFL, she was known as Robert.

Tackles Louie Lastik (Ethan Suplee),

“Remember the Titans.” Rats out roommate for leopard bikini briefs.

Bud-Lite Kaminski (Abraham Benrubi), “The Program.” “Great pass, man – wish I’d seen it.”

Guards Billy Bob (Ron Lester), “Varsity Blues.” They scanned his cat and he was good to go.

Manumana (Peter Navy Tuiasosopo), “Necessary Roughness.” His name means “runt of the litter.”

O.W. Shaddock (John Matuszak), “North Dallas Forty.”

He calls it a game, we call it a business.

Defense Defensive line Steve Lattimer (Andrew Bryniarski), “The Program.” Just keep the NCAA drug testers away from him.

T.J. Lambert (Brian Dennehy), “Semi-Tough,” He was born semi-mean.

“Remember the Titans.” Bad hands, moved to defense.

Special teams Kicker Lucy Draper (Kathy Ireland), “Necessary Roughness.” Welcome to foot-BALL. Returner Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), “Forrest Gump.” Remember to close the stadium gates.

Coach Coach Conrad, “Dazed and Confused.” You’re in need of a serious attitude adjustment, young man.

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SHOWTIMES Sept. 1 at Wyoming, 12:30 p.m.

Sept. 8 vs. San Jose State, 8 p.m.

Sept. 15 vs. Eastern Washington, 5 p.m.

Sept. 21 at (15) USC, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 29 vs. Utah, TBD Oct. 6 at Oregon State, TBD Oct. 20 vs. (24) Oregon, TBD Oct. 27 at (13) Stanford, TBD

Nov. 3 vs. California, TBD Nov. 10 at Colorado, TBD Nov. 17 vs. Arizona, TBD Nov. 23 vs. (6) Washington, 5:30 p.m.

STARRING OFFENSE (PROJECTED)

Quarterback Gardner Minshew, Sr. ... 6-2, 220 Running back James Williams, Jr........6-0, 205 Wide receivers Tay Martin, So. ................6-3, 185 Jamire Calvin, So. ......... 5-10, 160 Renard Bell, So. ..............5-8, 162 Dezmon Patmon, Jr...... 6-4, 220 Tackles Andre Dillard, Sr. ........... 6-5, 310 Abraham Lucas, Fr. ...... 6-7, 320 Guards Liam Ryan, So. .............. 6-5, 295 Robert Valencia, Sr.......6-6, 300 Center Fred Mauigoa, Jr........... 6-3, 305 DEFENSE End Nnamdi Oguayo, Jr. ..... 6-3, 252 Nose tackle Taylor Comfort, Sr. .......6-0, 280 Defensive tackle Nick Begg, Sr. ............... 6-5, 265 Linebackers Peyton Pelluer, Sr. ........6-0, 230 Jahad Woods, So.......... 6-0, 225 Willie Taylor III, Fr......... 6-4, 235 Nickel Hunter Dale, Sr.............. 5-10, 195 Cornerbacks Darrien Molton, Sr. ....... 5-10, 190 Sean Harper Jr., Sr......... 6-2, 190 Safeties Jalen Thompson, Jr. ......6-0, 190 Skyler Thomas, So. .........5-9, 185 SPECIAL TEAMS Kicker Jack Crane, So. .............. 6-2, 190 Punter Oscar Draguicevich, So. ... 5-11, 180 Kick returner Travell Harris, Fr. ........... 5-9, 180 Punt returner Jamire Calvin, So. ......... 5-10, 160

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PREDICTIONS PAC-12 NORTH

1. ...............................Washington 2. ................................... Stanford 3. .................................... Oregon 4. ............ Washington State 5. ............................................ Cal 6. .......................... Oregon State SOUTH

1. ............................................ USC 2. ..................................... Arizona 3. ......................................... Utah 4. ........................................UCLA 5. ..................................Colorado 6. .......................... Arizona State

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Washington State coach Mike Leach is tasked with replacing key players and staff members from last season’s team.

SCRIPT FLIPPED Question marks surround new-look Cougars

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As offseasons go, there isn’t a college football team that experienced a more turbulent one than Washington State – and thus you won’t find a group more eager to get into a real game setting than the Cougars.

“Everybody’s looking forward to having a game,” coach Mike Leach said. “That’s the thing, in college you have a long camp and so then everybody’s looking forward to playing somebody else.”

After a wildly successful 2017 campaign that saw them go 7-0 at Martin Stadium, stage an upset of No. 5 USC and clinch their third consecutive postseason berth, the Cougars, just 19 days after the Holiday Bowl, were rocked by the suicide of quarterback Tyler Hilinski. His memory is sure to give strength to players and coaches at different points, but all of them are still carrying heavy hearts going into the upcoming season.

Leach was tasked with replacing 60 percent of his coaching staff, not to mention an All-American lineman on either side of the ball and a record-setting quarterback.

And in July, WSU was thrust into the national spotlight when Leach posted a doctored video of a Barack Obama speech from his Twitter account, stirring up controversy in both the athletic and political arenas.

But football’s back now and it couldn’t have come any sooner for the Cougars.

CAST Offense: Simply put, there’s a heap of talent to replace. Luke Falk finished his college career with the distinction of being the only Pac-12/10 quarterback to have thrown for more than 14,000 yards, but don’t downplay the help he got from his accomplices – namely All-American left guard Cody O’Connell, All-Pac-12 right tackle Cole Madison, Swiss Army knife running back Jamal Morrow and sticky-handed receiver Tavares Martin Jr. Naturally, QB is the position getting most of the buzz this preseason and the Cougars will likely replace Falk, a four-year starter who knew every detail of Leach’s Air Raid offense, with Gardner Minshew, a graduate transfer from East Carolina who’s officially been in the system for a month. But Minshew was one of the best passers available on the transfer market when the Cougars snagged the one-time Alabama commit, and he’s no stranger to high-volume passing offenses, having thrown the ball 219 times in his final four games at ECU last season.

Spoiler alert Most sports betting services seem to think four Pac-12 players have decent odds of winning the 2018 Heisman Trophy. The Cougars may need to show some urgency through their first six games because they’ll see all four in the final six. First off, Oregon and rising quarterback Justin Herbert at home on Oct. 20, followed by Stanford and star running back Bryce Love in Palo Alto on Oct. 27. Three weeks later, Arizona and dual-threat quarterback Khalil Tate make their visit and one week after that, Washington and steady signal-caller Jake Browning will be in Pullman for the Apple Cup. – Theo Lawson

Minshew isn’t working with a bare cupboard, either. WSU’s receiving corps loses two talented outside threats, Martin Jr. and Isaiah Johnson-Mack, but some think it could still be the deepest unit in school history. By the end of his true freshman campaign, “X” receiver Tay Martin wasn’t too far behind Martin Jr., an All-Pac-12 player in 2016, and inside receivers Kyle Sweet and Renard Bell each contributed more than 500 receiving yards last year.

It shows how well the Cougars have recruited the running back position that fifthyear senior Keith Harrington – a former starter – may wind up being the third man on the depth chart this season. WSU returns shifty junior James Williams and the most intriguing tailback on the roster could be true freshman Max Borghi, who decided on the Cougars despite picking up heavy interest from Stanford.

Blending in three new starters on the offensive line could be a season-long endeavor, but at least WSU knows what it has in established left tackle Andre Dillard – a future NFL Draft pick – and center Fred Mauigoa, who started in all 13 games last year.

Defense: There was a good chance WSU would return at least one of its top two defensive stalwarts from 2017, though it seemed far more likely that would be Hercules Mata’afa, a junior defensive tackle who still had one season of eligibility left, rather than Peyton Pelluer, a fifth-year senior linebacker who was supposed to finish up with the Cougars last year.

But Pelluer’s back after receiving an extension-of-clock waiver from the NCAA and Mata’afa’s gone after leaving for the NFL a

year early. No surprise, then, that the Cougars’ defensive line finds itself hurting significantly more than the linebackers.

Behind Mata’afa and nose tackle Daniel Ekuale, now with the Cleveland Browns, WSU generated some of the strongest passrush in the Pac-12 last season. Without both – and possibly also Nnamdi Oguayo, a quick defensive end who hasn’t practiced most of the preseason – it’s hard to imagine the defensive line can replicate its numbers from 2017. Defensive tackle Nick Begg will be the most experienced starter on the D-line, with just 14 game appearances under his belt, while nose tackle Taylor Comfort – a former walk-on – and D-end Will Rodgers III enter the picture without any career starts.

Pelluer is the veteran leader – or super veteran leader, if you will – of an otherwise young, but also experienced, linebacker unit. The sixth-year senior from Sammamish, Washington, and two other linebackers went down with long-term injuries last season, giving way to then-redshirt freshmen Jahad Woods, Justus Rogers and Dillon Sherman. All three of them are back in 2018.

The Cougars have star power in the defensive backfield with returning strong safety Jalen Thompson, whose instincts are every bit as impressive as his hitting. Cornerback Sean Harper Jr. has been one of the best performers – on offense or defense – during preseason camp and the lanky senior could be poised for a breakout season.

Special teams: If there’s a position more concerning than D-line at this point, it might be kicker. As of last week, the Cougars hadn’t decided on one and the top two options, Jack Crane and Blake Mazza, went just 7 of 13 on field goals in the team’s last two public scrimmages. The good news is both have strong legs if they can manage to straighten out their kicks. Transfers Oscar Draguicevich III and Oliver Graybar are in a similar battle for the punting job.

CREW Coaching: It felt as though Leach spent as much of his offseason recruiting assistant coaches as he did players. The defensive coordinator (Tracy Claeys) is new. So are the offensive line coach (Mason Miller), the outside receivers coach (Steve Spurrier Jr.), the outside linebackers coach (Matt Brock), the safeties coach (Kendrick Shaver) and the cornerbacks coach (Darcel McBath). Oh right, the strength coach, too (Tyson Brown). Leach has never dealt with this much turnover in a single offseason – not at WSU at least – but he hasn’t whiffed on too many hires in his time with the Cougars, and it’s not unlikely that at least a few of the new guys will be better than the ones they replaced.

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After searching far and wide to find his next quarterback, a longtime coach boldly hands the keys over to an outsider who’s looking to make a name for himself in a conference that’s done it for so many signal-callers before him.

If Gardner Minshew can make the Air Raid go, Mike Leach and the Washington State Cougars may be able to buck the odds and qualify for their fifth bowl game in six years.

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FOOTBALL FLICKS THAT CAN’T BE MISSED With more than enough football movies to eat up an entire summer’s worth of time, here’s a look at the top five favorite football films from some area college coaches and players.

WSU Mike Leach (COACH)

1. Friday Night Lights 2. Remember the Titans 3. North Dallas Forty 4. Any Given Sunday 5. The Longest Yard (original) Dillon Sherman (LINEBACKER)

1. Friday Night Lights 2. The Longest Yard (original) 3. The Longest Yard (remake) 4. Rudy 5. Remember the Titans

EWU Aaron Best (COACH)

1. Varsity Blues 2. The Program 3. Remember the Titans 4. Friday Night Lights 5. We Are Marshall Gage Gubrud (QUARTERBACK)

1. Friday Night Lights 2. Remember the Titans 3. The Longest Yard 4. Gridiron Gang 5. Rudy

Idaho Paul Petrino (COACH)

1. Remember the Titans 2. Brian's Song 3. Friday Night Lights 4. North Dallas Forty 5. The Longest Yard Colton Richardson (QUARTERBACK)

1. Remember the Titans 2. The Blind Side 3. Gridiron Gang 4. We Are Marshall 5. When the Game Stands Tall

Whitworth Rod Sandberg (COACH)

1. The Longest Yard (original) 2. Remember the Titans 3. Facing the Giants 4. Woodlawn 5. Brian's Song Tyler Adamson (LEFT TACKLE)

1. Remember the Titans 2. Necessary Roughness 3. The Replacements 4. Friday Night Lights 5. The Blind Side

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Washington State linebacker Peyton Pelluer pauses between drills during practice on August 3 at Martin Stadium in Pullman.

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WSU’s Pelluer a leader on and off the field

(Pelluer) understands it, kind of gets everybody lined up. Also a real instinctual guy.”

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PULLMAN – The pain sensors in Peyton Pelluer’s left foot started sending off warning signals one week earlier, as the Washington State Cougars were gradually chipping away at a 21point deficit against Boise State at Martin Stadium.

It’s not in Pelluer’s nature to let pain keep him down, so the middle linebacker didn’t make much of the discomfort.

He went to the sideline, wrangled a few painkillers from the nearest athletic trainer and let the medley of Ibuprofen and adrenaline carry him through the rest of a 47-44 triple-overtime victory. Pelluer was struggling, but you wouldn’t have known as he mowed down the Broncos for 14 tackles and came up with the pick-six that cut the Cougars’ deficit to seven points with under six minutes left in the fourth quarter.

He admits now, “We had no idea what was heading my way.”

That interception return for a touchdown could’ve been the defining snapshot of Pelluer’s senior season: the veteran linebacker lurking in pass coverage, lunging forward to intercept Montell Cozart’s shovel pass and galloping 36 yards in the opposite direction – his long brown

Washington State coach Mike Leach On linebacker Peyton Pelluer’s leadership qualities

locks dancing on his shoulders every step of the way – to send Martin Stadium into late-night euphoria.

Instead, it was the prequel to another jolting Martin Stadium moment – one that yielded a much less positive result for Pelluer and the Cougars. Seven days later in the first quarter of the Pac-12 Conference opener against Oregon State, the linebacker hustled into the backfield to pressure Jake Luton, leaping at the Beavers quarterback, who threw short for a 1-yard loss to bring up fourth down.

A textbook play, had it not been the one that finally severed Pelluer’s navicular bone, ending his season and, in that moment, potentially his remarkable college career.

That tingling foot pain he’d felt a week earlier? It was now throbbing at Pelluer, placing him in more agony each time he tried to stand up. Walking was out of question, so who knew how long it would be before Pelluer could get back to playing the aggressive, passion-driven brand of football that had made him one of the best linebackers in the Pac-12?

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Maybe a more pertinent question at the time: Who knew if he’d get the chance to?

A day later, medical scans allowed Pelluer to view the graphic details of his broken foot. Doctors compared the fractured bone to a paper clip, explaining that the more it bent, the more likely it was to snap.

In other words, the break was inevitable.

“It looked like a solar system,” he said.

“There was bone spurs everywhere. There was literally one bone spur that was just loose in space in my ankle. Which is pretty gnarly.”

From the fourth floor of the Cougar Football Complex, Pelluer is comfortable speaking openly and candidly about his injury – perhaps because he knows how much more debilitating it could’ve been.

The only reason Pelluer was eligible for a rare sixth season is because the injury was sustained just three weeks into his senior year.

Plus, WSU’s athletic training staff had been thorough in charting a foot injury he’d sus-

Injury didn’t stop EWU’s Tiuli from learning

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Idaho linebacker Kaden Elliss has 220 tackles in three seasons.

Most Versatile Vandal Elliss puts his name all over the stat sheet

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In his time with the Idaho Vandals, Kaden Elliss has accumulated relationships that will color and focus his final season. He’s not simply a talented kid anymore, doing his own thing. He has a brother, Christian, starting with him for the Vandals and, most notably, a bride, former Idaho basketball player Brooke Reilly.

In ways probably not yet fully clear, they will be with him on this last ride. So when he says his goals are “No regrets. Do everything I can to have the best year possible,” they are part of the deal.

Elliss is the immensely talented linebacker whose role with the Vandals has expanded to the point he plays a half-dozen positions on both sides of the ball, plus special teams. The degree to which he is committed to going out in a blaze of glory could have a big impact on Idaho’s return to the Football Championship Subdivision and the Big Sky Conference.

“He has such great explosion.

He’s so fast. He has a change of direction that makes him hard to block. He throws 300-pound offensive linemen around like they’re 150 pounds,” said Vandals coach Paul Petrino.

After playing at a rangy 6-3, 225 pounds a year ago, Elliss has grown to about 240 pounds.

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The first time Eastern Washington defensive line coach Eti Ena laid eyes on prized nose tackle Jay-Tee Tiuli, he noticed the obvious: A 6-foot-4, 320pound frame with an impressive motor.

Over the past four years, Tiuli, a preseason All-American, has bullied centers, guards and ballcarriers with his ferocity, size and off-the-ball speed. He’s establishing himself as one of the finest interior defensive linemen at the FCS level.

Tiuli has lost 35 pounds since last winter, he said, and is coming off the snap quicker than ever, a year after after using a medical redshirt due to a season-ending shoulder injury.

“Definitely more explosive,” said Tiuli, who prepped at Federal Way High with current EWU safety D’londo Tucker and former defensive end Albert Havili, who is currently an undrafted rookie on the Buffao Bills’ preseason roster.

But Ena, also EWU’s associate head coach, believes Tiuli thrives in an aspect few people see.

“He’s smart, and I think he’s underestimated there,” Ena said.

“He knows what’s going on in the game. He understands his techniques. He’s sharp.”

As Tiuli watched from the sideline last season, he said he made it a point to still absorb everything being taught.

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EWU nose tackle Jay-Tee Tiuli comes off a shoulder injury that sidelined him part of last season.

“I wanted to improve my football IQ. Just take it to the next level,” Tiuli said. “I always to work on speed and be faster, stronger and more explosive. But football IQ is big, too.”

A leaner, sharper and quicker Tiuli could be nightmarish for Big Sky Conference foes.

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SHOWTIMES Sept. 1: vs. (9) Auburn (in Atlanta), 12:30 p.m.

Sept. 8: vs. North Dakota, 2 p.m.

Sept. 15: at Utah, 7 p.m.

Sept. 22: vs. Arizona State, TBD

Sept. 29: vs. BYU, TBD Oct. 6: at UCLA, TBD Oct. 13: at (24) Oregon, TBD Oct. 20: vs. Colorado, TBD

Oct. 27: at California, TBD Nov. 3: vs. (13) Stanford, TBD Nov. 17: vs. Oregon State, TBD Nov. 23: at Washington State, 5:30 p.m.

STARRING OFFENSE (PROJECTED)

Quarterback Jake Browning, Sr.......... 6-2, 210 Running back Myles Gaskin, Sr............ 5-10, 193 Wide receivers Aaron Fuller, Jr. .............. 5-11, 186 Chico McClatcher, Jr. .....5-8, 176 Ty Jones, So. .................6-4, 209 Tight end Drew Sample, Sr. ............6-5, 251 Tackles Trey Adams, Sr. ............. 6-8, 316 Kaleb McGary, Sr. ......... 6-8, 324 Guards Luke Wattenberg, So. .. 6-5, 307 Matt James, Sr. .............6-5, 300 Center Nick Harris, Jr................. 6-1, 300 DEFENSE Tackles Jaylen Johnson, Sr........ 6-3, 294 Greg Gaines, Sr. ..............6-2, 313 Levi Onwuzurike, So..... 6-3, 283 Linebackers Ryan Bowman, So. ....... 6-0, 263 Ben Burr-Kirven, Sr. ...... 6-0, 221 Tevis Bartlett, Sr. .......... 6-2, 238 Nickel Myles Bryant, Jr. .............5-8, 182 Cornerbacks Byron Murphy, So........... 5-11, 182 Jordan Miller, Sr................ 6-1, 181 Safeties Taylor Rapp, Jr............. 6-0, 200 JoJo McIntosh, Sr. ......... 6-1, 205 SPECIAL TEAMS Kicker Peyton Henry, Fr.............. 5-11, 191 Punter Joel Whitford, Jr........... 6-3, 224 Kick returner Salvon Ahmed, So. ......... 5-11, 195 Punt returner Aaron Fuller, Jr. .............. 5-11, 186

CREW Head coach Chris Petersen, fifth year (37-17) Offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan (first year) Defensive coordinators Jimmy Lake (first year) Pete Kwiatkowski (fifth year)

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PREDICTIONS PAC-12 NORTH

1. .........................Washington 2. ................................... Stanford 3. .................................... Oregon 4. .................. Washington State 5. ................................. California 6. .......................... Oregon State SOUTH

1. ............................................ USC 2. ..................................... Arizona 3. ......................................... Utah 4. ........................................UCLA 5. ..................................Colorado 6. .......................... Arizona State

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS

Led by coach Chris Petersen, the Washington Huskies are in the middle of the College Football Playoff discussion once again.

ROLE REPRISAL Huskies on top of the world after time off radar screen

By John Blanchette THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Even back in the bad, bad days of 0-12 – just a decade ago, can you believe it? – the Washington Huskies did their best to pass themselves off as a college football blueblood.

OK, purpleblood.

Now they don’t have to pretend. When the summer’s first polls came out, there they were at No. 6 in both, back rubbing elbows with the Wisconsins, Oklahomas, Miamis and Auburns – their highest pre-season ranking in more than 20 years. You don’t have to search far to find a pundit on TV or at happy hour who has them penciled in for one of the four College Football Playoff berths for the second time in three years.

So what would you call that?

The Best of Times.

No, not the Herm Edwards movie. Yes, the new Arizona State coach – sorry, CEO – did have a small role in the old Kurt Russell-Robin Williams flick about high school shame becoming mid-life glory. But Chris Petersen, at the moment, is living it.

The Huskies’ head coach has a brandname quarterback, though one not without critics. He has a home-run tailback. He has a defense that remains the stingy standard in the Pacific-12 Conference – in particular a secondary that seems immune to whatever blows can be inflicted by injury, graduation or NFL defection.

The only thing going against Petersen? He feels like he’s on the wrong side.

“I like to be on a different team than you guys are on,” he told reporters gathered at Pac-12 media day. “I’d rather prove you wrong than to prove you right. Now we’re working to prove you right rather than prove you wrong.”

CAST Offense: Jake Browning is about to become the Huskies’ first four-year starter at quarterback, and yet there’s a slice of the fan base that’s overeager to get a look at the talent – like Coeur d’Alene’s Colson Yankoff – that’s been stockpiled behind him. That’ll happen when your touchdown-pass count plummets from 43 in 2016 – when Browning was the Pac-12’s offensive player of the year – to just 19. It certainly didn’t sour Petersen on his quarterback.

“You’re not going to bait him into making bad decisions and bad plays,” said Petersen, although that’s exactly what seemed to happen in the loss at Stanford that kept UW out of the Pac-12 title game.

Jake Browning has guided the Huskies to 29 wins in his three years under center.

You might chalk up some of the stumbles to the injuries that shredded UW’s receiving corps and Browning trying to assume a greater burden for making the offense go. He’ll still have to get along without Dante Pettis, but a healthy Chico McClatcher returns and Ty Jones is a budding star – though losing tight end Hunter Bryant is a blow.

But what will help Browning most of all is a stellar senior year from Myles Gaskin – though can it get much more stellar than the three consecutive 1,300-yard seasons he’s already put up? That’ll depend on how the Huskies develop in the line between fouryear starting tackles Trey Adams and Kaleb McGary.

Defense: No matter whom the Huskies lose from their secondary to the NFL – and before last season it was three second-round picks – they seem to just get better, and deeper. So well stocked are they that three gifted freshmen – Julius Irvin, Kyler Gordon and Dominique Hampton – could struggle to see

the field.

Safeties JoJo McIntosh and Taylor Rapp begin their third season starting alongside each other, with corners Byron Murphy and Jordan Miller back after missing big hunks of 2017 with injuries. Myles Bryant is an important figure, too; UW’s nickel package is a big reason the Huskies have led the conference in fewest yards per play allowed three years running.

Their biggest challenge is replacing Pac-12 defensive player of the year Vita Vea, but Greg Gaines has made 33 starts up front and linebackers Tevis Bartlett and Ben Burr-Kirven have all-conference pedigrees. On the wish list: a breakout year for Benning Potoa’e on the outside.

Special teams: Here’s where it gets a little sketchy. The Huskies were the Pac-12’s worst field=goal team last year and now they’re turning the problem over to untested freshman Peyton Henry. Meanwhile, Pettis – who returned an NCAA-record nine punts for touchdowns in his career – has moved on to the NFL. Some new magician will have to be in charge of pulling rabbits out of hats.

CREW Coaching: Chris Petersen doesn’t just recruit “our kinda guys,” as has been his motto. He apparently is one. In a recent – and anonymous – CBS survey of college football coaches, the Huskies’ leader tied with Stanford’s David Shaw for the most votes in the category of “Which of your peers do you believe is completely clean and by-the-book in running his team?”

He’s done some shuffling among his assistant directors. This year, the Huskies have a new man calling the defensive plays in Jimmy Lake, who was elevated to co-coordinator with Pete Kwiatkowski in the off-season and given a salary boost to $1.1 million to keep him aboard after several schools – Alabama, Florida State and Texas A&M among them – showed interest. There’s also a new play-caller on offense in Bush Hamdan, who returns after a year in the NFL to replace Jonathan Smith, now the head coach at Oregon State.

Spoiler alert The Huskies can’t be accused again of a squishy non-conference schedule, but is it too much, too soon? Their Sept. 1 opener at Auburn is already being seen as a referendum – and not just on the Huskies’ national title hopes, but on the entire Pac-12, which is still swabbing off the egg of a 1-8 bowl performance last winter.

“I know everybody wants to put it all about this one thing – the Pac-12 is either good or not on one game,” Petersen said. “That’s totally unrealistic.”

And totally happening.

– John Blanchette

THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW ⏐ THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 ⏐ SPECIAL 9

When Jim Owens won back-to-back Rose Bowls nearly 60 years ago, it didn’t seem that it could get much better on Montlake. Then along came Don James and a bowl trip every year – capped by a shared national championship in 1991. Then came the roller coaster, and the crash.

Now the Washington Huskies seem to have found both a long-term solution – in the steady hand of coach Chris Petersen – with the immediate gratification of Saturday success. If Jake Browning returns to sophomore form and the defense is as good as advertised, the best of times could get even better.

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SHOWTIMES Sept. 1: vs. Central Wash., 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 8: at Northern Arizona, 4 p.m.

Sept. 15: at Washington State, 5 p.m.

Sept. 22: vs. Cal Poly, 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 29: at Montana State, noon Oct. 6: vs. Southern Utah, 12:05 p.m.

Oct. 13: at Weber State, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27: vs. Idaho, 12:05 p.m.

Nov. 3: at Northern Colorado, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10: vs UC Davis, 1:05 p.m.

Nov. 16: at Portland State, 7:05 p.m.

STARRING OFFENSE (PROJECTED)

Quarterback Gage Gubrud, Sr. .......... 6-2, 205 Running back Antoine Custer, Sr. ........ 5-9, 190 Wide receivers Terence Grady, Sr.........6-5, 200 Andrew Boston, Fr. ....... 6-3, 190 Nsimba Webster, Sr. ..... 5-9, 190 Tight end Henderson Belk, Sr. ...... 6-4, 255 Tackles Chris Schlichting, Jr......6-5, 300 Kaleb Levao, Sr.............. 6-4, 310 Guards Tristen Taylor, Jr............ 6-6, 315 Jack Hunter, Sr.............. 6-4, 295 Center Spencer Blackburn, Sr.. 6-2, 285 DEFENSE Tackles Jay-Tee Tiuli, Sr. ........... 6-4, 320 Dylan Ledbetter, Sr. ..... 6-4, 250 Ends Keenan Williams, Sr...... 6-3, 265 Jim Townsend, Jr. ........ 6-4, 265 Linebackers Ketner Kupp, Sr. ........... 6-0, 225 Kurt Calhoun, Sr............ 6-2, 235 Rover Cole Karstetter, Sr. ........5-11, 205 Cornerbacks Josh Lewis, Sr. ...............6-0, 190 Nzuzi Webster, Sr......... 5-10, 180 Safeties Mitch Fettig, Sr. ........... 6-0, 200 Tysen Prunty, Jr............. 6-1, 205 SPECIAL TEAMS Kicker/Punter Roldan Alcobendas, Sr................... 6-0, 180

Long snapper Curtis Billen, Sr................6-2, 215 Kick returner Dre'Sonte Dorton, Jr. ... 5-10, 185 Punt returner Zach Eagle, Sr. ................5-8, 175

CREW Head coach Aaron Best, second year (7-4) Offensive coordinator Bodie Reeder (second year) Defensive coordinator Jeff Schmedding (fourth year)

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PREDICTIONS 1. ........ Eastern Washington 2. .............................Weber State 3. ....................Northern Arizona 4. .................................. Montana 5. ........................................Idaho 6. .................................. UC Davis 7. ......................... Southern Utah 8. ...................Sacramento State 9. ........................ Montana State 10. .................................. Cal Poly 11. .................. Northern Colorado 12. ..............................Idaho State 13. .........................Portland State Predictions by Ryan Colllingwood

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Eastern Washington quarterback Gage Gubrud is hoping to cement his legacy with a trip back to the FCS national title game.

ACTION FLICK High-flying Eagles eyeing return to Frisco, Texas

By Ryan Collingwood THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Eastern Washington has no intention of letting the FCS Playoff Committee dictate its postseason fate.

The enigmatic, injury-plagued Eagles of 2017 did, leading to what was widely considered a playoff snub when 7-4 wasn’t enough to crack the 24-team field.

An outright Big Sky Conference title is the guarantee ticket, something that’s eluded EWU two of the past three seasons.

Now the conference’s preseason favorite, the eighth-ranked Eagles head into Year 2 of the Aaron Best regime with a “Leave no doubt” credo, spearheaded by one of the top quarterbacks in the country in All-American Gage Gubrud.

CAST Offense: For the third straight year, Gubrud, a two-time Walter Payton Award finalist, is the trigger man for one of the most potent offenses in the country.

All the former walk-on from McMinnville, Ore., has done is register nearly 10,000 total yards (8,568 passing, 887 rushing) and break a slew of scoring records in just 23 games, 17 of which he’s won.

With the return of nine starters and a veteran offensive line – All-Big Sky Conference center Spencer Blackburn anchors a unit that collectively has nearly 100 career starts – his numbers could be even gaudier this fall.

But that could depend on the development of a group of receivers who lacked a consistent, downfield threat in 2017, a commodity EWU had in previous years.

The Eagles return Nsimba Webster (693 yards in 2017) along with Terence Grady, Zach Eagle and half-dozen other options with game experience. Grady, a 6-foot-5 target, was expected to be a viable deep threat last season, but sat out most of the year with an injury. Andrew Boston, a 6foot-3 redshirt freshman, is also expected to give the group a boost.

Gubrud said he aims to cut down on turnovers, having thrown a total of 26 interceptions the last two seasons.

“A lot of times when you’re forcing things and trying to make a play, you make a poor decision,” Gubrud said. “Or you weren’t super sure what the defense was doing and you weren’t comfortable with the route concept. It’s about being better aware of everything going on, and I think I’ve improved in that area.”

When EWU elects to keep the ball on the ground, it has proven options in speedy backs Antoine Custer and Sam McPherson.

The two combined for more than 1,200

time on the field.

As a result, it yields more yards and Spoiler alert points. Ranking 115th in total defense (465 yards allowed per game) last season wasn’t A three-game gauntlet in October good by any measure, though. may decide if Eastern Washington In recent years, EWU has atoned for ends its short postseason drought. yielding mass yardage by forcing turnovers.

Locking up with defending Big Sky It didn’t do much of that last season, either, co-champions Southern Utah (home) coming up with just 13 takeaways. and Weber State (away) on Senior safety Mitch Fettig led the team in consecutive Saturdays will be a tough tackles (92) last season and was named to task, followed by a bye week and a the All-Big Sky Conference team. Josh Lehome contest against former FBS wis, a three-year starting corner, will also be member Idaho, which is also expected key in the Eagles’ base 4-2-5 defense. to finish in the upper tier of the Big But perhaps the biggest boon to the EaSky. gles’ defense is the return of Jay-Tee Tiuli, a If EWU wins at least two games in 6-foot-4, 320-pound nose tackle. Tiuli that stretch – especially the road earned All-Big Sky first-team honors in 2016 contest at Weber State, a preseason before using a medical redshirt in 2017. His top 10 team – it should be in good replacement last season, Dylan Ledbetter, shape. now moves over to defensive tackle, giving If not, it could be sweating out EWU’s defensive front an imposing duo. another FCS playoff selection show.

On the edge of the Eagles’ defensive line – Ryan Collingwood are senior Keenan Williams and junior Jim Townsend, who redshirted in 2017 after earning time the previous two years.

“As a defense we’ve always said we wantrushing yards last season, with Custer, an All-Big Sky Conference pick, churning out ed to be the best in the Big Sky and one of the 776 yards with 10 touchdowns. Gubrud, best in the nation. That’s our goal,” Wilwho often calls his own number in the Ea- liams said. “We have a lot of depth and we’re gles’ zone-read offense, has averaged more going to be good this year.” than 440 yards rushing the past two seaSpecial teams: Roldan Alcobendas is sons. adding punting to his kicking duties this Best and offensive coordinator Bodie season, replacing Jordan Dascalo, the EaReeder have committed to an improved gles’ lone All-Big Sky Conference pick last running game since taking over last year. season.

The Eagles ran the ball 5 percent more in EWU ranked seventh in the country in 2017 than in 2016. punt-return coverage last season, and that Gubrud said he’ll do whatever it takes if had much to do with Dascalo’s booming leads to a trip to Frisco, Texas. kicks. Alcobendas has been reliable in the “I just want to win a national title. If that kicking game, averaging 60 yards a kickoff. means I have to throw for 5,000 yards again, He’s also hit 20 of 31 field goal attempts and or run the ball, or let (Custer and McPher- 141 of 146 of his PATs. son) work, I’m good with that.” Gubrud Dre’Sonte Dorton, one the top kickoff resaid. “And I think you’ll see more of a mix- turn men at the FCS level last season, looks ture this year depending on the games.” to build off his 27.7-yard average. Zach EaBlackburn, who will be a four-year star- gle is back to return punts. ter, said he has gained a bigger appreciation for the postseason having missed it as a CREW freshman and junior.

Coaching: Considering the talent EWU “Now we know the difference between a graduated when Best was given the keys to semifinal team and one that doesn’t make the program in January 2017, coupled with the playoffs, and the work it takes to get the Eagles’ brawny schedule last season, a there. How just a play or two can change 7-4 record and No. 22 ranking in the final everything,” Blackburn said. coaches poll wasn’t a disaster. But as Best Defense: With the return of eight star- has said, missing the playoffs was an anomaters and more than a dozen others with sub- ly he doesn’t want to repeat. Beau Baldwin stantial experience, defensive coordinator is a tough act to follow, but Best and offensJeff Schmedding’s defense believes it has ive coordinator Bodie Reeder still put out an the means to shore up its 2017 deficiencies. offense that ranked in the top 10 in yards, The Eagles return almost their entire de- and did so by adding new wrinkles to the fensive backfield, both of their starting line- playbook, namely an increase in rushing.

“We’ve been able to (make the playoffs) backers in Ketner Kupp and and Kurt Calhoun, and five defensive linemen who for quite some time, and (missing the playoffs) was rare when you talk about the earned starts.

With a quick-strike offense that ranks last nine years,” Best said. “Our duty is to among the lowest in time of possession, find ourselves a (postseason) game, and find EWU’s defense inherently spends more some luck along the way.”

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When a young, hotshot quarterback and his band of NFL-level wide receivers came a play short of a 2016 trip to Frisco, Texas – a north Dallas suburb home to the FCS national title game – major change ensued for the Eastern Washington football program. Coaches left. Stars moved on.

Now one of the most experienced teams in the country, the Eagles look to return to the Lone Star State led by a senior QB eager to prove he’s still one of the best arms in the country.

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SHOWTIMES Sept. 1: at Fresno State, 7 p.m.

Sept. 8: vs. Western New Mexico, 2 p.m.

Sept. 22: at UC Davis, 7 p.m.

Sept. 29: vs. Portland State, 2 p.m.

Oct. 6: at Idaho State, 2:35 p.m.

Oct. 13: at Montana State, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20: vs. Southern Utah, 2 p.m.

Oct. 27: at Eastern Wash, 12:05 p.m.

Nov. 3: vs. North Dakota, 2 p.m.

Nov. 10: vs. Montana, 3:30 p.m.

Nov. 17: at Florida, TBD

STARRING OFFENSE (PROJECTED)

Quarterback *Mason Petrino, Jr. ........... 6-0, 195 *Colton Richardson, So. .. 6-4, 254 Running back Isaiah Saunders, Sr. ........ 5-10, 234 Fullback Luke Hyde, Jr. .................. 6-2, 249 Wide receivers Jeff Cotton, Jr. .................6-2, 204 Cutrell Haywood, Fr. .......6-0, 203 David Ungerer, Sr. .............5-10, 171 Tight end Connor Whitney, Fr.........6-3, 200 Offensive tackles Irving Schuster, Sr. ........... 6-6, 301 Logan Floyd, Fr................ 6-4, 289 Offensive guards Noah Johnson, Jr............ 6-4, 300 *Conner Vrba, So. ............. 6-1, 304 *Matt Faupusa, Fr. ..............6-1, 314 Center Sean Tulette, Jr..................6-3, 271 DEFENSE Ends Kaden Elliss, Sr.................6-3, 240 Ben Taliulu, Sr. ................. 6-2, 253 Tackles *Cameron Townsend, Jr.......................6-2, 282

*D.J. Henderson, Sr........... 6-1, 268 Rahsaan Crawford, So. ......................... 5-10, 331

Linebackers Ty Graham, Jr.................... 6-0, 217 Christian Elliss, So............ 6-3, 220 Ed Hall, Sr. ......................... 6-0, 214 Cornerbacks Lloyd Hightower, Jr........... 5-11, 186 Dorian Clark Sr.................. 6-0, 185 Safeties Denzal Brantley, Jr. ........ 6-0, 204 Jalen Hoover, So................ 5-11, 185 SPECIAL TEAMS Kicker *Cade Coffey, Fr. ................. 6-1, 191 *Noah Croninger, Jr.......... 6-3, 210 Punter Cade Coffey, Fr.................... 6-1, 191 Long snapper *Alex Boatman, Sr. ......... 6-0, 260 *Cameron Lang, Fr. ........... 6-0, 211 Kick returner Denzal Brantley, Jr. ........ 6-0, 204 Punt returner David Ungerer, Sr. .............5-10, 171 *-TOO CLOSE TO CALL

CREW Head coach Paul Petrino, sixth year (19-41) Offensive coordinator Kris Cinkovich, sixth year Defensive coordinator Mike Breske, fourth year

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PREDICTIONS 1. ......................................... Idaho 2. .................. Eastern Washington 3. ..................................... Montana 4. ...............................Weber State 5. ........................... Montana State 6. ........................... Southern Utah 7. .......................Sacramento State 8. ...................... Northern Arizona 9. ..................................... UC Davis 10. ...........................Portland State 11. ..................................Idaho State 12. .................... Northern Colorado 13. ...................................... Cal Poly Predictions by Peter Harriman

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Idaho hopes senior wide receiver David Ungerer will be a consistent target for whoever takes the snaps for the Vandals.

BIG SKY SEQUEL Vandals not expecting sympathy in move to FCS

By Peter Harriman THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Life being what it is, the University of Idaho isn’t going to get sympathy because the Vandals were forced to abandon the Football Bowl Subdivision after 22 years, and return to the Football Championship Subdivision and the Big Sky Conference when the Sun Belt Conference canceled their membership in 2017.

Rather, for their new Big Sky colleagues, the recently FBS Vandals are a good skin to hang on the wall.

But Idaho isn’t automatically a victim.

While institutional memory among players 18 to 23 years old probably doesn’t run too deep, UI coach Paul Petrino was an assistant during part of the Vandals’ heyday when they won six Big Sky titles between 1982 and 1992. Can he re-create that aura around the program? Propose a theme for the inaugural year back in the Big Sky? “We ran this league two decades ago.

We’re back. Nothing’s changed.”

To fulfill it, though, may require taking on Big Sky foes like a Sun Belt team.

CAST Offense: “We have to be able to run the ball in the fourth quarter. That’s how you protect a lead,” Petrino said.

The responsibility rests with senior Isaiah Saunders, redshirt freshman Roshaun Johnson, redshirt junior Jack Bamis, and potentially a newcomer, freshman Tyrese Walker.

Saunders was Idaho’s second-leading rusher last year with 506 yards, averaging four yards a carry. He, Johnson and Bamis give Idaho horsepower on counter plays between the tackles that are a feature of its ground game.

The offensive line returns three starters, led by Noah Johnson, a STATS FCS and Phil Steele’s Preseason All-America guard. Johnson is coming off a pair of shoulder surgeries but is expected to be ready for the opening game against Fresno State on Sept. 1. Sean Tulette, a starter at quick tackle, has also been working at center this year, and senior Irving Schuster started three games last season at strong tackle. The line was too often beaten by Sun Belt defenses. But it comes back a year older and more skilled.

Petrino complimented its ability to get combination blocks on run defenders in preseason live action. Also, in his estimation, the line gets a bit of a break now.

“The biggest talent difference between the Sun Belt and the Big Sky is the defensive line,” he said. “The Big Sky is good, but there are bigger guys on the defensive line in the Sun Belt.”

A pair of quarterbacks with disparate talents will play for the Vandals, at least early.

Junior Mason Petrino and sophomore Col-

Spoiler alert When it looks at Montana State, Idaho might almost see itself. The Vandals until this year were a Football Bowl Subdivision team, and the Bobcats have 11 FBS transfers. Idaho is fast, but the former FBS Bobcats have seen that kind of speed.

MSU was 5-6 last year but returns 14 starters and expects to reap the benefits of a two-year rebuilding project. The Bobcats were dealt a setback when junior quarterback and preseason second-team All-America Chris Murray was forced to sit out 2018 to concentrate on academics.

However, by the time the Vandals face the Bobcats Oct. 13 in Bozeman, Murray’s replacement, Travis Jonsen, one of the FBS transfers who began his career at Oregon, could be up to speed.

– Peter Harriman

ton Richardson came into preseason camp looking like they traded 20 pounds – to the benefit of each.

Extending pass plays by moving laterally and being a credible running threat are Petrino’s strong suits, and Richardson excels in quick drops and powerful throws to small targets in the short and intermediate passing game.

If any Idaho player brings national attention to the Palouse this season, it will almost certainly be iron-man linebacker/receiver Kaden Elliss. The 6-3, 240-pound senior, a preseason STATS FCS and Phil Steele AllAmerica, is the face of Idaho’s philosophy to get difference makers in games on both offense and defense. As a tight end, slot receiver and wideout, Elliss caught seven passes for 156 yards and two touchdowns last season in a role that expanded as the weeks unfolded. Now he is joined by freshman Connor Whitney. As tall as Elliss but 40 pounds lighter, Whitney was never overwhelmed in preseason camp by playing both tight end and linebacker, and in scrimmages Idaho ran plays where both were on the field as pass receivers at the same time.

Other young receivers poised for a breakout year are redshirt freshmen Cutrell Haywood and D.J. Lee, sophomore Brandon Luckett, and juniors Jeff Cotton and Josh Ellingson, who doubles as the Vandals’ holder.

Proven senior leadership comes from David Ungerer. The Pullman High product caught 39 passes for 432 yards and six touchdowns a year ago, including a highlight twotouchdown game against Missouri.

Defense: The Vandals need to replace a pair of star performers in the front seven.

Defensive tackle Aikeem Coleman and linebacker Tony Lashley were all-Sun Belt firstteam picks in 2017. Both graduated, although

Lashley is playing a year as a graduate transfer at Boise State.

“Replacing Aikeem is the biggest thing, his production against the run,” Petrino said.

Senior Ben Taliulu and junior Cameron Townsend were standouts on the defensive line in spring ball. Redshirt junior Aaron Boatright caught Petrino’s eye this fall and steady senior D.J. Henderson has recovered from off-season surgery to anchor the middle of Idaho’s defensive front.

Linebacker was the strength of Idaho’s defense last year. Led by Kaden Elliss, who made 15 solo tackles for loss in 2017, and AllSun Belt honorable mention senior Ed Hall, who led Idaho with three interceptions, the Vandals will be solid again.

“We don’t have quite the depth we had a year ago, so we need to stay healthy,” Petrino says.

Redshirt sophomore Charles Akanno, junior Ty Graham and sophomore Christian Elliss will have key roles, with Elliss moving to middle linebacker to replace Lashley.

There is returning talent throughout the secondary as well for the Vandals. Senior Dorian Clark and junior Lloyd Hightower return at cornerback. Sophomore Jalen Hoover started 10 games at safety in 2017 and made two interceptions. Redshirt junior Denzal Brantley moved from running back to safety last year. He played only two games before suffering a season-ending injury but made eight tackles. He was also hurt last spring. When he’s on the field, though, he’s a hitter.

“He comes down with a force,” Petrino said. “He could have a great year.”

Special teams: Phil Steele Preseason All-America Cade Coffey, a redshirt sophomore, returns as Idaho’s outstanding kicker and punter. He won’t have to kick off this year. Noah Croninger, a redshirt junior who is good enough that Petrino wants to get him playing time, will handle kickoffs.

CREW Coaching: Going into his sixth season as Idaho’s head coach, Petrino is dipping into his past. He was an assistant with the Vandals from 1992-94, when Idaho won a Big Sky championship and made three FCS playoff appearances. Career coaching highlights include the 2016 campaign when the Vandals went 9-4 and won the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, and changing the Vandals’ culture in the classroom. From an Academic Progress Rate that left Idaho ineligible for the postseason in 2014, the Vandals’ APR has climbed steadily. Idaho posted a 2.91 grade point average last semester, the second-highest in team history.

This season, Petrino will be in the spotlight for another reason. As he leads the Vandals through the transition from FBS to FCS football, Petrino will be closely watched by schools on the cusp of the Division I subdivisions. A successful campaign by Idaho might prompt others to contemplate a similar move.

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In a conference where it was always a misfit, Idaho made its fellow Sun Belt members take notice in 2016 when the Vandals finished 9-4 and won the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

But they couldn’t convince the Sun Belt they belonged.

In leaving the past behind, Idaho sets itself up for even greater success than a bowl win.

If they make all the right moves here, the Vandals could play for a FCS title.

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Washington State linebacker Peyton Pelluer has totaled 254 tackles in 39 career games with the Cougars. He’s also grabbed a pair of interceptions.

PELLUER Continued from 7 tained during his redshirt season (2013), which allowed the Cougars to prove that Pelluer had two years of denied opportunity, rather than just one.

“At the end of the day, I knew it was the NCAA, and you really never know with them, but I had a clean track record, there was no reason for them not to give it to me,” he said. “It was pretty cutand-dried. so I’d say I was about 95 percent sure.”

Pelluer credits WSU’s athletic trainers and compliance staff for strengthening his case, which was presented to the NCAA in an extension-of-clock waiver and approved on Jan. 25.

“Really, my hat’s off to them,” he said. “I owe them a lot, for sure.”

During the rehabilitation process, Pelluer watched muscle mass basically fall off his left leg – “it was so demoralizing,” he said – but he and WSU’s other walking wounded put in long hours at “Muscle Beach,” a quadrant of the practice field where, according to Pelluer, “injured guys go and just get swole.”

Eventually two other senior linebackers, Isaac Dotson, who missed four games with a concussion, and Nate DeRider, who was shelved for the rest of the year with a torn ACL, joined Pelluer for the body-sculpting sessions at “Muscle Beach.”

“We were just going to town every day,” Pelluer said, laughing. “It was just meathead sessions.”

The rehabilitation period also served as Pelluer’s early, unexpected foray into the coaching world. His father Scott, a former

Pelluer brings down Minnesota running back Rodney Smith during the Holiday Bowl in December 2016.

WSU linebacker who spent five years in the NFL, was a college assistant for 18 years at Boise State, Northern Arizona, Arizona and Washington. Pelluer is pursuing a master’s degree in education this year, in part because he realizes how many parallels there are between teaching and coaching.

“It’s just a different side of the same coin,” he reasons.

While Pelluer was healing his bum foot, he got the equivalent of an unpaid coaching internship and an opportunity to shadow

ELLISS Continued from 7 “I pushed my body hard this offseason to be bigger, faster, stronger overall. I’m going to be ready to go all out,” Elliss said.

Elliss and his wife dated since he was a sophomore. They got married this summer.

“Now, I’m doing things for more than myself. As soon as I said ‘I do,’ things changed inside. She’s my biggest motivator.”

Almost in parallel with that, Idaho’s outstanding middle linebacker Tony Lashley decided late this spring to graduate from Idaho to play his final season at Boise State.

“I love the kid to death. He had to do what’s best for him and his family,” Elliss said.

But Lashley’s move opened up a position that Christian Elliss, a sophomore, has stepped up to fill in preseason camp.

“This is the most fun I’ve ever had on a football field,” Kaden Elliss said about starting with his brother. “He’s the most passionate, the most competitive person. We talk a lot on the field.”

Petrino said it’s more Christian talking and Kaden making plays, perhaps because the fire Elliss ignited in his younger brother when they were growing up still burns hot.

“I was awful to him. I was a mean older brother,” Elliss admitted. “I made him one of the most competitive people I’ve ever

the Cougars’ defensive coaches on game day from the press box.

And when he wasn’t chiseling his biceps and triceps on “Muscle Beach,” Pelluer was observing his younger teammates, offering his wisdom and answering their questions.

He clearly established some credibility, because to this day, they’re still asking.

“It was just fun being that guy that guys could come to,” Pelluer said.

But the real fun came during home games. Pelluer listened

met. I had matured much faster, but when I came home from college after my first year, he had grown. His biceps were huge. He was ready to compete with me. We still go at it very hard. Chess, Pokémon, he and I have to be on separate teams. We go at each other.”

Elliss will have a prominent role with Idaho’s offense as a tight end and wide receiver.

But he envisions himself as primarily a defensive player. In his time with the Vandals he has played at both outside and middle linebacker. It has made him a complete defender, he says.

“Inside linebacker really helped me learn to tackle. Playing Sam helped me with coverage. Playing Buck helped me with rushing.”

He’s happy to play wherever the Vandals need him, but Elliss says he has an affinity for Buck linebacker, because of the opportunity to rush the quarterback.

“Buck. Buck. It’s been calling my name for three years now,” he said.

However, Petrino plans to make opponents’ offenses hunt for Elliss.

“We’re going to move him around. Not line him up in one spot,” Petrino said. “He’ll play both to the field and the boundary side, and on some sets he’ll play inside. In passing situations, we’re going to try to get him on the other team’s worst lineman.”

The Vandals can use him in so many places all over the field not only because Elliss is so physically talented, but because he’s such

through a headset as graduate assistants frantically relayed messages from the press box to defensive coaches on the sideline, communicating pre-snap adjustments, personnel changes, formational notes, etc.

“So if the offense was busting out a new play that we didn’t see the week before in film, we had to come up with kind of quick adjustments and help out (defensive coordinator) (Alex) Grinch and the defensive staff on the field – kind of overcome that stuff,” Pelluer said. “So it was just

a quick learner, according to Petrino.

“You show him something one time, let him practice it a couple of times, and he knows it,” he said.

His football knowledge is not only expansive but detailed. In reading opposing players’ tells, Elliss harkens back to his own experience as a high school quarterback.

“Whenever I was going to pass, I would lick my fingers and touch a towel,” Elliss said.

It’s the sort of thing he looks for now in opponents.

Elliss also observes that in moving from the Sun Belt Conference to the Big Sky, the Vandals will be transitioning from a league that used a lot of one-back sets and run-pass options to a conference that can be characterized as largely a passing league.

The Vandals have beaten two Big Sky teams during Elliss’ tenure, Sacramento State last year and Montana State in 2016, although they had to sneak by the Bobcats 20-17.

“That was a tough game,” Elliss acknowledged.

But he believes Idaho is well positioned to compete in the Big Sky, and with a brother and a bride helping him in various ways to wring the utmost from his final season of college football, Elliss is confident enough to name without hesitation what he wants to be the last drop of his Vandals career: “National championship.”

fun. It was just quick, thinking on your feet and all the coaches working together. It was a fun atmosphere.”

Pelluer would be going into the right line of work if he eventually pursues a coaching career, Mike Leach believes.

“He loves football, he’s dedicated and he’s a big film guy,” the WSU coach said. “Understands it, kind of gets everybody lined up. Also a real instinctual guy.”

Added Leach: “Literally grew up in football with his fathers and uncles and all those guys having played. He’s one of those guys that all the intangibles, he knows those. And I happen to believe if you’ve got a guy like that, that rubs off on the others.”

But Pelluer, who’s on track to finish his career with more than 300 tackles – it would place him in WSU’s top 10 all-time – hopes the helmet-to-headset transition doesn’t come too soon. He’s a two-time All-Pac-12 honorable mention choice and was fourth in the conference with 93 tackles last season. While Pelluer doesn’t have the top-end speed that NFL scouts seek, he’s a strong, fundamental tackler who has a dogged work ethic that could become a major advantage if he’s able to get his foot in the door of a pro camp.

For now, though, it’s all about year No. 6 in Pullman – a special opportunity that almost didn’t exist for WSU’s (super) senior linebacker.

“I mean honestly, it was just a blessing that it happened when it did,” Pelluer said, “because the next week, if it happened then, I wouldn’t have gotten this next year.”

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TIULI Continued from 7 77 tackles and 8.5 sacks, while often being double-teamed. The 2016 AllBig Sky Conference first-team selection is also the lone FCS nominee on the 50-player Polynesian College Football Player watchlist.

After struggling against the run last season and having trouble applying consistent pressure, the return of Tiuli is timely. Dylan Ledbetter, who stepped up in Tiuli’s absence last season, has now shifted to defensive tackle alongside the Eagles’ most imposing figure.

“Every year there’s going to be a defensive tackle that can be dominant in games, and I think he is one of those types of players,” Ena said. “We have to put him in position and keep him in position to help him maximize what he does.”

Defensive end Keenan Willians recalled a time when Tiuli lined up against a smaller long snapper in a Big Sky Conference game. “(Tiuli) lines up in the nose, and all of a sudden a snap goes high. Because they’re worried about blocking him,” Williams said. “He changes our defense a lot when he’s playing.”

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS

Tide, Tigers, Huskies and Wolverines

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Brett Rypien has thrown for 9,876 yards in three seasons at Boise State.

LETTING IT RYP Shadle Park grad has made most of opportunities

By B.J. Rains IDAHO PRESS-TRIBUNE

BOISE – Brett Rypien may not have been here, sitting on a chair inside the recruiting lounge of the Blaymaier Football Complex talking about preparing for his final season at Boise State.

In fact, he probably wouldn’t have been here.

Had former quarterback Ryan Finley not suffered a season-ending ankle injury in the third game of the 2015 season against Idaho State, Rypien’s career at Boise State would look a lot different.

Rypien may have been here. He just wouldn’t be in the same spot.

“We’ve thought about that,” Brett’s father, Tim Rypien, said. “And fortunately it worked out for both guys.”

One of the two figured to eventually transfer. And it just as easily could have been Rypien. A true freshman at the time, he almost surely would have redshirted in 2015 had Finley not got hurt. And Rypien might have had to sit behind him for two more years until Finley ran out of eligibility.

Sure, he could have beat out Finley at some point, but the more likely scenarios would have been either Rypien only playing his junior and senior seasons or electing to transfer elsewhere.

“I’m sure Brett would have gone someplace or Ryan would have gone someplace,” Tim Rypien said. “I think that’s what would have happened. One of the two. They were both quality kids and maybe it was going to be Brett leaving.

Sometimes that happens in today’s game unfortunately with kids who want to play, and you can’t blame them.”

After a record-shattering career at Shadle Park High, Rypien enrolled early for spring practices in 2015 in hopes of putting himself in position to win the starting job that fall as a true freshman. He arrived with huge expectations and comparisons to Kellen Moore after breaking all of the former Boise State quarterback’s high school passing records in the state of Washington.

But Finley, a redshirt sophomore in 2015, outperformed Rypien and earned the starting nod that fall.

“There was no expectation he’d start, to tell you the truth, because he was just learning the system and if it wasn’t for Ryan getting hurt, he probably wasn’t going to play, to be honest,” Tim Rypien said.

Whether Rypien ever would have ended up playing for Boise State is a scenario everybody involved is thankful they don’t have to ponder. Had Finley stayed healthy and played well that fall, he likely would have had the leg up for the starting spot again in 2016. Would Rypien have wanted to stick around for three years as the backup to only have two years left to play?

It would seem more likely that Rypien may have elected to transfer. The other four schools among the five he visited prior to committing to Boise State were Oregon State, Arizona State, Washington and Washington State, and one of them surely would have welcomed him a year later.

“That definitely could have been the case,” Brett Rypien said. “I don’t really think about that too often, but that definitely could have happened.”

But the tables quickly turned. After thinking Finley would have the game experience to keep the job the following year, it was Rypien who instead used his freshman year to grab the starting spot for good.

After entering in the second half against Idaho State when news got back to Boise State’s coaches that Finley was done for the year, Rypien seized the opportunity and didn’t look back. In his first career start the following week in a Friday night nationally televised game at Virginia, he passed for 321 yards and three touchdowns.

“It was a crazy, crazy fall,” Rypien said.

“Going from thinking I was going to sit basically three years and then get thrown into the fire in the third game and have to make my first start on the road against a Power Five school. I learned a lot from that first year. It was crazy.”

Rypien finished as the Mountain West Freshman of the Year and the All-Mountain West First Team quarterback. He led the Mountain West in passing yards (3,353), completions (273) and attempts (429) and was second in completion percentage (63.6) and touchdown passes (20) despite not playing in the first two games.

Barely nine months after arriving on campus, Rypien went from redshirting to the best quarterback in the Mountain West.

“It wasn’t the ideal situation for anybody, but Brett was ready,” said former Boise State offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Eliah Drinkwitz.

“Brett had prepared every day for that moment and took the reps in practice seriously, and when the opportunity presented itself, he took advantage of it.”

Drinkwitz, who now holds the same positions at North Carolina State, said he knew that Rypien was ready when they decided to move forward with him at quarterback.

“There’s a lot of people that aren’t prepared for those opportunities because they sulk or pout, and Brett didn’t do that at all,” Drinkwitz said. “He was a rock. There’s no wonder he’s going to be one of the best quarterbacks in Boise State history.”

Finley, meanwhile, rehabbed his broken ankle and engaged in another battle with Rypien for the starting spot during spring practice in 2016. When coaches informed Finley shortly after the spring game that Rypien would remain the starter that fall, it was Finley who instead elected to transfer and play elsewhere.

“I think it was the best thing that could have happened to a lot of people,” Drinkwitz said. “You can’t always see that right there in that situation, and I remember putting Brett in the game in the second half vs. Idaho State, and I remember talking to Ryan and his parents in tears in the locker room after the game. At that moment, I don’t think anybody saw that as the best thing that could have happened to either guy, but it sure has turned out that way.”

Since Finley was injured during his redshirt season in 2014 and only played in parts of three games due to injury in 2015, he was able to apply for a medical redshirt to get back the year of eligibility. Since he also graduated that spring in three years, he was able to transfer somewhere and play immediately that fall with three years of eligibility remaining.

Drinkwitz had left for N.C. State in January, and he reached out to Finley in April once he announced publicly that he was planning to transfer. Finley eventually decided to transfer to N.C. State, and has been the starting quarterback there the past two seasons. He passed for 3,059 yards and 18 touchdowns in 2016, and 3,518 yards and 17 touchdowns in 2017.

Rypien started the past two seasons for Boise State, helping the Broncos to a Mountain West Championship as a junior with a win over Fresno State in the title game last December.

“Ryan and I had the chance to play golf a few times and he’s a great kid and I still stay in touch with his dad, but it was a real hard deal because nobody wants to see that happen and nobody wants to get a job from an injury standpoint,” Tim Rypien said. “And I know that was super hard on Ryan, but thank goodness it has worked out for both of them.”

Rypien has remained in touch with Finley and has followed his progress from a far. Finley, also a senior this fall, is projected by some to be a first-round draft pick in next year’s NFL Draft.

“I’m not surprised with the success he’s had,” Rypien said. “He taught me a lot throughout my first six or seven months here. I knew he was going to be a great player. If he was going to be playing here he would have done really well as well. I’m not surprised, and I’m really happy for him.”

Even if Finley had stayed healthy and Rypien stayed anyway, he still wouldn’t have been in this spot. He wouldn’t be talking about his fourth year as the starter, with hopes of cementing himself as one of the best quarterbacks ever to play at Boise State and goals of a trip to a New Year’s Six bowl game this winter.

But that’s where Rypien is, saddled with huge expectations both from those inside and out of the Boise State football program, as he looks to make the most of his final year in Boise.

It’s exactly the place he wants to be.

“I definitely don’t take it for granted, being able to play here has been a blessing and something that I never would have imagined as a young kid,” Rypien said.

“It’s something I’m going to miss for the rest of my life, being able to play quarterback here. It’s been really the best four years of my life.”

horse, look for a brandname team ranked somewhere in the teens of the preseason poll. Maybe one with a talented quarterback who still has some uncertainty attached to him.

And with that, predictions for the 2018 college football season:

(North) over Utah (South).

The Huskies win their second Pac-12 title in three seasons, but the opener against Auburn could determine playoff hopes.

• Southeastern Conference: Alabama (West) over Georgia (East). This time, only the SEC champion makes the playoff.

The College Football Playoff has yet to produce a real surprise team.

In four seasons, nine schools have reached the semifinals – and even the teams that came from outside the AP preseason Top 25 were traditional powers.

Top 25 Heisman Trophy The lowest-ranked Three teams in the AP The favorites are runteam in the preseason me- preseason poll that will ning backs Bryce Love of dia poll to make the CFP not finish the season Stanford and Jonathan was Oklahoma in 2015. ranked: No. 16 TCU, No. 20 Taylor of Wisconsin, but The Sooners were 19th to Virginia Tech, No. 25 LSU. the Heisman has become a start the season, mostly beThree teams not in the quarterback’s award. Fifcause they were coming AP preseason poll that will teen of the last 18 winners off a disappointing season finish the season ranked: have been QBs. Feels like a (8-5) and few knew how Boston College, Memphis, season where a not-so-obgood Baker Mayfield Utah. vious player makes a run. would be.

Top five vote-getters: Conference Clemson made the 1. Justin Herbert, QB, playoff that same year afOregon winners ter starting the season 2. Jonathan Taylor, RB, • American Athletic ranked No. 12. The Tigers Conference: Memphis Wisconsin. went 10-3 the season be- (West) 3. Will Grier, QB, West over Temple fore, but Deshaun Watson (East). The last two teams Virginia. was a sophomore coming to win the American lost 4. Shea Patterson, QB, off a knee injury, there was their coaches soon after. Michigan. major turnover on defense So where’s Mike Norvell 5. A.J. Dillon, RB, Bosand exactly what Dabo going? ton College.

Swinney was building at • Atlantic Coast ConferNew Year’s Clemson had not yet been ence: Clemson (Atlantic) Six/College fully revealed. over Miami (Coastal). The Washington was No. 14 Tigers are stacked and Football Playoff going into the 2016 season freshman quarterback Cotton Bowl: Alabama before going on a playoff Trevor Lawrence could (1) vs. Washington (4). run. The Huskies were al- give the offense an explosOrange Bowl: Michigan so coming off mediocre iveness it was missing last (2) vs. Clemson (3). season (7-6), but there was year.

Sugar Bowl: Georgia definitely a sense Chris Pe• Big Ten: Michigan (SEC) vs. Oklahoma (Big tersen’s team was ready to (East) over Wisconsin 12) take a significant step for- (West). Jim Harbaugh fiRose Bowl: Wisconsin ward in year two of his ten- nally quiets his critics.

(Big Ten) vs Oregon ure. Turns out it was even • Big 12: Oklahoma (No. (Pac-12) bigger than expected.

1) over (West Virginia No. Fiesta Bowl: Boise State Last year, Georgia went 2). The Big 12 is the most (Group of Five) vs. Ohio from No. 15 to the CFP. likely Power Five confer- State (at-large) The Bulldogs were 8-5 the ence to provide an unexPeach Bowl: West Virgiseason before, Kirby pected champion. There is nia (at-large) vs. Miami Smart’s first in Athens. little separation among the (at-large) The Bulldogs had an ex- top six or seven teams but National perienced team in17` that when in doubt, pick the was favored to win the Sooners.

Championship SEC East, and ended up • Mountain West: Boise Clemson and Alabama being the second-best State (Mountain) over San make it four straight seateam in the country.

Diego State (West). Could sons meeting in the So what does this small be the Broncos’ best post- playoff. The Tigers even sample tell us? If you want Chris Petersen team. the series at two and win to pick a playoff dark • Pac-12: Washington another national title.

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SHOWTIMES Sept. 1: vs. La Verne, 1 p.m.

Sept. 15: vs. Chapman, 1 p.m.

Sept. 29: vs. Linfield, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6: at George Fox, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 13: vs. Pacific Lutheran, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20: at Puget Sound, 1 p.m.

Oct. 27: vs. Pacific (Ore.), 1 p.m.

Nov. 3: vs. Lewis & Clark, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10: at Willamette, 1:30 p.m.

STARRING OFFENSE (PROJECTED)

Quarterback Leif Ericksen, Sr. ..........6-4, 216 Running back Mason Elms, Sr.............5-8, 164 Wide receivers Bryce Powers, Sr. ....... 6-0, 190 Brett Moser, Sr. ...........5-10, 168 Garrett McKay, Sr. ....... 5-9, 175 Taylor Hall, Jr. ............ 6-2, 207 Tackles Tyler Adamson, Sr. .....6-5, 292 Kurt Blackman, Jr. ..... 6-4, 302 Guards Icher Pule-Annes, Jr. ..6-3, 262 Jacob Hubbard, Sr.......6-1, 260 Center Dylan McGillen, Jr. ...... 5-11, 222 DEFENSE Ends Chad Wilburg, Sr. ...... 6-3, 230 Andrew McCoy, Jr. ......6-1, 230 Tackles Mason Miksch, So. ...... 5-11, 264 Jack McLeod, Jr. ..........6-0, 271 Linebackers Gunnar Swannack, Jr...6-0, 200 Jaylen Gonzales, So.... 5-10, 213 Kale Wong, Jr. .............. 6-1, 197 Cornerbacks Jayden Jira, Sr. ...........5-10, 166 Bryce Hornbeck, So...... 5-7 172 Safeties Zach Hillman, Jr. ........ 6-0, 202 Shai Pulawa, Sr. ........... 5-11, 193 SPECIAL TEAMS Kicker Kevin Ramsey, So. ........5-11, 155 Punter Kevin Ramsey, So. ........5-11, 155 Kick returner Brett Moser, Sr. ...........5-10, 168 Punt returner Garrett McKay, Sr. ....... 5-9, 175

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Whitworth quarterbacks Leif Ericksen and Connor Johnson are battling for the chance to replace Ian Kolste.

CASTING CALL Ericksen, Johnson battling for Pirates’ leading role

By Jim Allen THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

The cast of characters is changing at Whitworth.

However, the entertainment factor will remain high at the Pine Bowl, where the Pirates will host six games while continuing coach Rod Sandberg’s spread offense.

“You play to your strengths,” said Sandberg, who goes into his fifth year expecting to contend for a high finish in the Northwest Conference and a spot in the NCAA Division III playoffs.

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Spoiler alert For a perennial winner like Whitworth, there’s one major goal: making the NCAA Division III playoffs.

The only sure path is to win the Northwest Conference title, and to do that, the Pirates need to get past national power Linfield.

That’s easier said than done.

“We’ve never really played our best game against them,” offensive coordinator Adam Stanfield said – but the Pirates have a great shot this year on Sept. 29 at the Pine Bowl.

Not only is Whitworth at home, but the Pirates enjoy a bye the week before. Even better, Linfield graduated its entire starting front seven on defense.

Whitworth's most recent win against the Wildcats was a 10-6 victory in Spokane in 2007.

– Jim Allen

Offense: Some of the faces are new, but Whitworth will have the same identity despite losing seven offensive starters from last year’s team that went 8-2 and finished second in the conference.

That identity starts up front, with Division III All-American candidate Tyler Adamson, who protects the blind side so well that “it frees you up to double-team in has been in the program for a year and he’s our pass protection,” said offensive coordi- more of a pocket passer. Connor is more of a Brett Favre back there, extending plays.” nator Alan Stanfield.

No matter who starts at QB, both are exAnd despite all the newer faces, the Pirates will continue to run their spread of- pected to see plenty of playing time behind a fense that usually employs four wide re- strong line and backed by a talented pair of backs in junior Mason Elms and sophomore ceivers.

“The core of our offense is spreading out Tariq Ellis. Both averaged better than 7 yards per carry last year and combined for the field,” Stanfield said.

Leading the way will be fifth-year senior 1,098 yards and 10 TDs. “Mason and Tariq are both home-run hitGarrett McKay of Tacoma, who has 182 career catches for 2,097 yards and 13 touch- ters,” said Stanfield, noting that both backs had multiple carries that went for 50 yards downs.

“He’s a special kid,” Stanfield said of or longer.

On the line, three-time All-NWC firstMcKay, who tore his ACL as a freshman in teamer Adamson gives the Pirates a big ad2014 but hasn’t looked back.

Senior Brett Moser, from Moses Lake, has vantage.

“He’s on an island a lot of the time, but we plenty of game experience, with 75 catches in 29 games. Also expected to see plenty of feel like he doesn’t need a lot of help,” Stanplaying time are Nick McGill, Bryce Powers, field said of the 6-foot-4, 270-pounder.

“That frees you up in pass protection, and Taylor Kolste and Taylor Hall.

Junior Anthony Ruiz, the only true tight it’s like having a veteran quarterback out end on the roster, should see more playing there.”

Senior Jacob Hubbard, who started at time as the Pirates hope to employ slightly center last year, is moving to guard. more power sets.

Junior Dylan McGillen, a Gonzaga Prep The biggest question is at quarterback, but coach Rod Sandberg is confident in both product, is expected to start at center. Junof his top choices, junior Leif Ericksen and iors Kurt Blackman and Icher Pule-Anness are favored to start at right tackle and left sophomore Connor Johnson.

“They have different skill sets and we’re guard, respectively. going to need them both,” Sandberg said.

Defense: If defensive success begins Ericksen, a junior from Kalispell, Monta- with a deep, talented front four, the Pirates na, was the top backup last year to record- are on track for a big year. setting Ian Kolste, passing for 418 yards with “Things have been absolutely awesome,” a 59.3 percent completion rate. said first-year defensive coordinator Adam Johnson, a sophomore from Snohomish, Shamion, who will employ a 4-3 scheme that Washington, has a strong arm and is a gifted will include a few tweaks from last year’s derunner, but lacks college experience. fene.

“Both are competitors, and that’s what “Everyone’s hungry to get better,” Shayou can go to war with,” Sandberg said. “Leif mion said.

That would an extension of last year, when the Pirates closed with five straight wins thanks in part to an ever-improving defense that gave up just 10 touchdowns in that span.

“We feel pretty confident but we still have lots of steps to take,” said senior defensive end Chad Wilburg, whose 51 tackles last year included a team-high five sacks.

Along with fellow end Charlie Ball, Wilburg was excited to hear that Shamion plans to “bring the fight to the offense instead of having it come to us.”

“I just want to go out and tackle some people,” Wilburg said.

The Pirates also have depth at the ends with Andrew McCoy and Tom Wilkie.

“Tackle is a bit more wide-open,” said Sandberg, who so far is without injured returnees P-Jay Solomon and Weston Kroes.

However, Jack McLeod, Mason Miksch and RudyJay Keopuhiwa are in the mix to see action.

Whitworth returns outside linebacker Kale Wong, an all-conference contender whom Shamion calls “super hard-working, and competes in everything he does.”

Sophomore Jaylen Gonzales is poised to “become quite a player” at middle linebacker, said Shamion, who also sees Lakeside High School product Gunnar Swannack competing for major playing time, along with Ian Black.

The secondary is highlighted by senior strong safety Shai Pulawa (52 tackles and two picks last year) and the shifting of outside linebacker Zach Hillman to free safety.

Cornerback is a major question mark, but Shamion will count on returnees Jayden Jira, Bryce Hornbeck and a large group of promising freshmen.

Special teams: Place-kicking duties are up for grabs, with sophomore Kevin Ramsey competing with Mt. Spokane product Cody McDonald and Nathan RaPue. Ramsey has the inside track at punter, while McKay is expected to handle punt returns. Moser and Brayden Corona are the top candidates to return kicks.

CREW Coaching: Sandberg returns for his fifth year after posting a 31-10 record over the past four years; so does Stanfield, responsible for the NWC’s top offense last year.

First-year assistant John Custer will handle tight ends and long snappers, but the biggest change comes on the other side of the ball.

Former University of Idaho linebacker Adam Shamion, who spent the past nine years as an assistant at Post Falls High School, is the Pirates’ new defensive coordinator.

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THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW • THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 • SPECIAL 17

The inspiring tale of a small-school football team counting on its stellar left tackle and his mates to help protect two new quarterbacks as they embark on what they hope will be a championship journey.

Behind the wizardry of offensive guru and coach Rod Sandberg, the Whitworth Pirates have won 25 games over the past three seasons – one of the best stretches in school history – and are poised once again to challenge perennial Northwest Conference power Linfield.

SPECIAL 18 • THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 • THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW

The end of summer was blurred by the smoke-filled haze of wildfires afar, but the promise of cooler, clearer weather brings the unmistakable buzz of Friday night football. Across our region, young men – and a few women – don helmet and pads yet again in a tradition as steeped in Americana as any other. Just say the phrase “high school football” and it evokes a certain set of discernible collective memories. The communal aspect of the game and the weekly spectacle is the fabric of communities across the country and connects generations. Hard work. Dedication. Solidarity. Respect.

These values are the foundation upon which high school football teams are forged and athletes’ lives shaped.

“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose,” is more than a mantra concocted by Hollywood. It’s a way of life.

THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW • THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 • SPECIAL 19

GSL 4A

CV RELOADS WITH NEW QB UNDER CENTER Gabbert takes reins of Bears’ offense

By Dave Nichols THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

What do you do to follow up a third-place-in-state finish? How about turn your offense over to a legitimate Division I prospect with a big arm?

Oh, and he’s only a junior.

Central Valley has a program that most others should envy. Not many schools can replace the Greater Spokane League 4A Offensive MVP with a player the caliber of Matt Gabbert.

For all the good things that Grant Hannan did for the Bears last year, including leading them to a 10-2 record, GSL title and the state semifinals, the promise of Gabbert’s cannon for an arm has all the scouts drooling.

“He’s pretty talented in a lot of ways,” CV coach Ryan Butner said. “He can run. He obviously has a phenomenal arm. And at 6foot-5, 220 he’s a pretty prototypically-sized quarterback for the next level.”

Butner said Gabbert’s ready for Friday nights.

“He’s grasped our offense. He’s known it since he was a freshman,” he said. “This will be his first opportunity to really run it full-go now.”

Gabbert missed much of his sophomore year with a broken collarbone but he was given a clean bill of health in November.

He even suited up for the last two games of the season, seeing brief action against Skyline in the playoffs.

“He’s been champing at the bit since he was cleared at the end of last year to play,” Butner said.

“He’s excited to be back. And he’s proven that he’s ready to go.”

Butner said Gabbert used the time off the field to work on strength and conditioning, and the natural growth process saw him gain two inches of height and muscle mass.

“It’s probably difficult for a guy coming off an injury, this was his second injury, but he was excited,” Butner said. “He went from 185 to 220 this year. He’s matured everywhere and that will definitely help him as well.”

Gabbert’s anxious to grab the keys to the car.

“I definitely have big shoes to fill,” he said, acknowledging Hannan’s achievements last season.

“But it goes along with the part.

It’s nice having everyone around me wishing me well and being really supportive.”

He said everyone is aware the success of last season, but they also want to forge their own identity.

“It’s different coming from last year,” Gabbert said. “Guys leave but you have great guys coming in, stepping up and filling their spots right now. Coming up with these guys for three years, it’s like going out and having fun in the back yard.”

Hannan was a prolific runner and used the passing game to keep defenses off-balance, but Gabbert is more of a classic drop-back passer. The new QB said the coaches are trying to keep things simple to start with, especially considering the inconsistent practice schedule due to the poor air quality the last two weeks of August.

“We’re trying to keep things mostly the same,” Gabbert said.

“Trying to make the right reads and make good throws and rely on our line and running backs.”

The offensive line is anchored by two three-year starters: firstteam all-league Wyatt Wickham and Michael Vose.

Returning running back Hunter Chodorowski joked that there have been at least a few changes to the system to take advantage of Gabbert’s skill set.

“I think we’ll make the adjustment (to him),” he said. “This year we’ll have a lot more of a deep threat so that will open up the run game a lot more.

“It gives a lot of confidence knowing if you need to rely on the deep ball he can sling it, and if we need to get that two yards that I’m there for it.”

Chodorowski admitted that there are expectations for this edition of the Bears.

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Gonzaga Prep quarterback Connor Halonen earned first-team All-GSL honors last season while leading the Bullpups to the playoffs.

STEPPING UP

Halonen, Hill want more after falling short of state titles last year

By Dave Nichols THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

There’s a eerie familiarity between two of the top teams in the Greater Spokane League.

Both programs are steeped in tradition.

Both come off bitter losses in last year’s state tournaments. Both enter play ranked in the top-10 in the state. Both lost a ton of talent to graduation. And both have returning starting quarterbacks stepping into more of a leadership role after the departure not only of tremendous football talent, but also of a vocal presence in the huddle.

Gonzaga Prep and Mt. Spokane, favored to contend for the GSL 4A and 3A titles respectively, enter play from a position of strength but still with a lot to prove.

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Missing the big guy Gonzaga Prep starts life without Devin Culp. The 6-foot-5, 250-pounder was obvious anytime he took the field last season, game or practice. He was larger than life, physically standing out among his teenaged peers. Big, strong and fast, he virtually screamed “Division I talent” and was a threat to go to the house any time he touched the ball.

He was a living security blanket.

Culp is now at the University of Washington on the depth chart at tight end in the next chapter of his football career, surrounded by more like-sized athletes than he saw at the high school level.

So where does Prep (9-3, 4-1 in 2017) go from there?

“I was asked that question years ago about Travis Long or Bishop Sankey,” Gonzaga Prep coach Dave McKenna said about two other legendary Bullpups that went on to D-I schools and the NFL. “I don’t look at kids as being replaceable. I think every kid is unique in his own way.

But there’s other kids that bring other gifts to the table.”

One of those kids is McKenna’s returning quarterback, Connor Halonen.

Halonen was the All-GSL 4A first-team quarterback, leading Prep’s run-heavy offense as if he were born to it. Wiry, elusive and quick, Halonen learned to read defenses and make lightning-quick decisions in the multiple-option system McKenna employs.

The coach praised his star’s development while trying to contend for a state title.

“Athletically he is special. Last year was the first year he played quarterback in our system, so there was a lot of just learning taking place,” McKenna said. “Getting the calls in, getting the snap count, and reading. People think we just hand it off or whatever. That’s the way we throw it.

“So he’s got to take his reads like a guy throwing a ball would take a read. He’s got to do the same thing. He’s been through that now. He’s got to improve and get better, but that’s going to come natural.”

Maybe what doesn’t come natural for the soft-spoken Halonen is being more vocal on the field.

“The leadership role – where he’s the senior leader and as a quarterback in the huddle – he’s got to make the call, he’s got to be that leader on the field, that coach on the field sometimes,” said McKenna. “So he’s got to know more now than just a quarterback. He’s got to know what the other backs are doing and help the guys out if they need it.”

Halonen recognizes his new

Mt. Spokane’s Brady Hill was named the GSL 3A offensive MVP last season. responsibilities.

“I have to be a lot more vocal this year,” he admitted. “Last year, the big 6-foot-5 guy made sure to talk and made sure everyone was where they needed to be.

Made sure everyone knew what they were doing. This year, coming into my senior year, I am the quarterback. I feel like I have to be a lot more vocal than I was last year.”

Halonen said last year, as is custom, the offense was designed around the strengths of the seniors. Now, that’s him.

“The tone of the team feels a little bit different,” he said. “I know it’s another team that’s built around the seniors like it always is, but it feels a little bit different in my shoes.”

On the field, Halonen has been working on becoming a better pocket passer.

“Last season I was more focused on the run option on my two options,” he said.

“Even though that came with good success I feel like if I can become more balanced and focus on the throwing a little more that will help our offense.”

With the exodus of so much talent and entrance of a lot of new faces, Halonen said building confidence with his teammates is key.

“Our big team goal is trusting each other,” he said. “This year is a lot different because we lost so many players that were replaced by younger underclassmen, so we’re just getting to know them and figure out what they’re like. So I think building trust as soon as possible is one of the big goals.”

McKenna thinks Halonen is up to the task.

“He’s matured all summer long,” he said. “He’s more comfortable just being around the offense. Being in the locker room. He’s knows that he’s got to be that leader and be more vocal. He’s competitive as all get-out. So he’ll take that now to the leadership role of our team.”

Gonzaga Prep was ranked seventh by the Seattle Times in its preseason top 10.

Both McKenna and Halonen appreciate the respect the program has earned.

“That’s one of those things that’s great to hear. It’s a confidence booster for sure,” Halonen said. “But I think if we just do what we need to do instead of worrying about what they want us to do I think that will help us the most in the long run.”

“It’s a compliment to the kids – and the program,” McKenna said. “The guys that came before Devin, the guys that are coming after him.

“It’s humbling at the same time. There’s

a lot of great teams out there. Our kids have worked hard. Those rankings are wonderful, to be recognized, but they don’t mean anything. You have to go out and play football. We have a long, long way to go.”

One more play Mt. Spokane has won the GSL 3A title the past four seasons, establishing the program as one of the tops in the area.

It’s a distinction coach Terry Cloer and his team doesn’t take lightly.

“It’s our expectation that we’re going to win it every year,” he said. “We’re not arrogant. We’re not cocky about it. We’re going to put in the work and we’re going to focus on each week and get better each week and try and peak at the right time at the end of the year and make a run.

Last year the Wildcats (8-3, 3-0) lost a close one in the first round of state, keeping them from a rematch in the quarters with a team they’d already beaten. On the road. With a backup quarterback.

“We feel like last year, if we make one play against Rainier Beach that we could have been playing for a state championship (instead of them). I feel like we’re at a high level and we’re bringing back the tradition every year and we have a shot to be one of the last teams in the state still playing.”

Senior Quentin Ayers said the Rainier Beach game has stuck with him and his teammates.

“Especially for the guys from last year that played quite a bit,” he admitted. “Just kind of the energy that is there. It fuels the fire. If we get moving we’re a tough team to beat.”

Returning GSL 3A offensive MVP and senior quarterback Brady Hill concurs.

“It does (sting),” he said. “I’ve been thinking about it a lot. Starting the season, really just dreading it still. Even today. I still think about it.

“But our guys are really buying in and they’ve been working hard. I think it’s going to be way different this year. We can make a really deep run.”

Cloer expects even bigger things out of Hill this season.

“Anytime you can return a quarterback it’s a luxury that you love to have,” he said.

“We did our two-minute drill and had our first defense out there and he took a pass drop and nothing was there so he scrambled and took it to the house about See QUARTERBACKS, 21

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DYNAMIC DUO GSL 3A

Shadle Park’s Atkins, Doyle create offensive spark

By Dave Nichols THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

The Greater Spokane League 3A seems to be a bit more open this season than in the recent past.

“Last year I told myself the same thing and Mt. Spokane kicked our butt,” Shadle Park coach Jim Mace said at practice in the school gym last week due to poor air quality over the region.

“They’re on the pedestal.”

While Mt. Spokane seems poised for another strong season, the somewhat overlooked Shadle Park team boasts 30 returning lettermen and 11 starters, including its allleague combo of quarterback Carson Doyle and junior wide receiver Xavier Atkins.

That has team leaders envisioning a chance to compete for the top of the pack.

“It’s definitely the goal – to win 3A,” Doyle said.

“I’m willing to bet we’ll be first this year,” Atkins added.

“I think that this year will definitely be different than the games we’ve played (against Mt. Spokane) the past couple of years,” Atkins said. “They’ve come out on top last year and a few years before that, but I hope they aren’t coming into this game thinking that they’re just going to beat us and wipe the floor with us, because that’s not going to happen.”

Doyle, a four-year starter, said the idea that Shadle Park doesn’t get as much attention as Mt. Spokane provides the Highlanders with a little extra motivation.

“A lot of teams overlook us and think that we’re a smaller team or whatever,” Doyle continued. “We just have to come out and do what we can do.”

Mace admitted that he and his coaching staff have to be creative with their motivation tactics to get their players to see Mt. Spokane eye to eye.

“That’s one of the things we train for all the time,” he explained. “One of the things we talk about with the kids is they might be better athletes with their size and weight, and bigger than us, so how do we beat that?

It’s hard work.

“I feel like the kids know there’s an opportunity.”

With just four teams in 3A, it makes for a long preseason and places so much emphasis on those three league games.

“It’s a weird way the season sets up,” Mace admitted. “You play all these games that technically don’t count against your record. It’s only what you do (in league) that we’ve really bought into.

“If we’re not winning and being competi-

tive (outside of league), by the time we get to Mt. Spokane our confidence will be shot.”

But as has become the norm for the Highlanders, it always comes back to the Wildcats.

“They’re always our focus,” Mace explained. “Even our play design. ‘How does it work against this team? Great.’ But will it work against Mt. Spokane?”

As for his own team, Mace lost the school’s all-time leading rusher, Xavier Wicks, but benefits from having his starting quarterback and favorite receiver back.

Mace admits there were times last season where he’d wonder about a play call and would just feed it to Wicks, knowing there would be positive yardage. He doesn’t have a 35-carry-per-game back on the roster this season, so he’s looking to spread the work load out more, including having his QB do a little more running.

Doyle isn’t the prototypical high school quarterback. Listed at 5-foot-10 and 170, he’s more compact and stockier than a lot of players who will takes snaps under center this season.

“Carson might not look like a great athlete at first but he’s sneaky fast, great first step on the field,” Mace explained. “This year I just said to him, ‘I’m going to call some plays for you to specifically run to get you going.’ He seemed to be excited.

“I think he’d like throw for 300 (yards) versus run for 300, but he wants to win.”

When Doyle is throwing, it will most likely be headed toward Atkins, who says the pair have built a rapport over the past couple of years.

“It definitely comes through practice,” Atkins explained. “My freshman year, when I caught my first passes from Carson, it was a lot different from my freshman quarterback.

He was obviously at a completely different level.

“I’ve caught probably thousands of passes from (Doyle) so now it’s natural.”

And even though both players were allleague last year, Atkins said there is always room for improvement.

“We just push each other to keep working to be better than we are already,” he said.

“We don’t have the mindset that we think we’re better than everybody else, but we’re going to push to be the best out of anybody.”

Mace said that drive is part of what makes Atkins a special player.

“He’s probably the one kid on our team that the potential to be a Division I athlete,” Mace said. “We’re working with him to fine tune things. Last year he’d run past a kid and ‘high-point’ naturally. But sometimes he’s not as good mechanically. So we’re trying to dial him in on that, and he’s responded pretty well.”

One of the big things Mace likes about his quarterback is his natural leadership abilities. Doyle is more soft-spoken, but does the little things to get the most out of his team-

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Shadle Park quarterback Carson Doyle, left, jokes with wide receiver Xavier Atkins. mates.

“Throughout the summer and springtime – even now – he finds ways to get the guys to go out to Merkel (Sports Fields) or somewhere and do 7-on-7 on his own accord – and he’s been doing that since he was a sophomore. That says something about him,” Mace said.

“He’s one of the first guys in the weight room and he’s always helping the younger guys get better,” he continued. “If he can get the team behind him and working together we’ll be a better functioning unit. He’s been really good at that.”

Doyle, whose dad and uncle are assistant coaches and whose freshman brother Logan will join him on varsity, acknowledged that as a senior and returning starter he will need to step up as a captain on the field.

“Last year I had somewhat of a leadership role, but this year it’ll be more,” he said. “I’m quiet, but I have a good connection with our players. I can get on them when I need to, and give out compliments when they need them.”

Sharing the load in the backfield will be Klouse Albers, who also placed fourth at state in wrestling last season. The senior was all-league last year as a utility back, spelling Wicks on occasion, and will be featured more in the upcoming campaign.

Mace thinks of Albers as something of a secret weapon.

“Pound-for-pound, he’s an incredible athlete,” the coach said. “He’s all over the place.

“We had a rule last year on offense: When he’s off the field nothing good happens.

When he’s on it, it does.”

Mace acknowledged that with all the returning players, his squad has a chance to make some noise.

“I think that this is a big year for us and the program in general,” he said. “We have kids that can get the job done, and have gotten the job done (in the past). We feel like we’re ahead and fine-tuning. But it’s the playbook, and it’s understanding everything.

“We had a great summer. We feel like the kids are ready to go.”

North Central (2-7, 1-2): Sean Garvey moves up from assistant to head coach for the 2018 season. The Indians lost 16 starters to graduation, including most of their offensive line, so Garvey hopes the new players jell quickly. They’ll be blocking for senior QB Carter Delp and junior RB Kade Garvey, who will also play linebacker. Leading the defense is all-league first team DB junior Ian Hicks, junior LB Evan Bertolf-Linn and senior D-lineman Tyler Orvik. “We’re a young team on the average but we have some experienced juniors who we’ll lean on,” Garvey said. A key newcomer is senior WR/DB Justyn Stultz, a transfer from Texas.

Rogers (2-7, 0-3): The Pirates will start six players on both sides of the ball. On offense, Rogers boasts depth and experience at the RB position with honorable mention all-league senior Tre Phillips and at tight end with first-team all-league senior Kadyn Bland. Sophomore QB Casey Jeske takes over with an older but inexperienced OL. Defensively, the Pirates improved their secondary and have most of their front seven returning, including linemen Nathaniel Tran and Duante DeMarce. Rogers will look to manage the clock and keep possession of the football, trying to shorten games and limit the possessions of opposing offenses. “We want to be an old-school football team and be physical for four quarters,” said first-year coach David Chambless.

GSL 4A Continued from 19 “There’s a little bit of pressure, but I know we’ll do well with the people that we have this year.

Everyone here has stepped up for the seniors that left last year.”

Butner said that Chodorowski – an honorable mention allleague back last season – is the type of football player every coach wants on their team.

“He had an incredible offseason,” Butner explained. “I was so proud of him and what he did this summer. He doubled-up his workouts. He’d go in and work out before the team would go in, then he’d do a team workout.

“I think he’s willing to put some of the load on his back in order to get back where we were last year.”

Chodorowski will play defensive end as well as carry the ball.

“We have some depth, but he’s a stud,” Butner said. “He’s a senior, he’s 215 pounds, and he can do it. He can handle the load. He can play both ways. He’s a superphysical kid. Loves football. And I think he can handle it.”

“I felt like I was a little bit of a leader last year on the field and off the field,” Chodorowski said about entering his season season.

“Once this year started I feel like I’ve stepped up a little more than last year.”

Butner is pretty sure Gabbert can handle his part of the equation as well with his size, strength, accuracy and personality – think surfer cool, with the longish wavy locks to go along with it.

“He’s loose,” the coach said of his quarterback. “He works when he has to work, but he’s laid back and I think the kids feed off of that a little bit. It’s a great thing to have.

“He’s never hard on himself.

We don’t worry about him carrying it from play to the next. I think that’s part of his personality showing.”

“There’s definitely pressure,” Gabbert admitted, “but it’s a good type of pressure. You always have in the back of your mind to have more drive, do more and become a better player and teammate.”

Gabbert wasn’t sure if he’ll keep the flow for the school year,

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Central Valley quarterback Matt Gabbert missed part of last season with a broken collarbone. though.

“I don’t really know right now,” he admitted. “I’m debating on it. I might trim it down, I might keep it long.”

Either way, defenses around the GSL will be more concerned with his arm and legs, rather than his golden mane.

Butner said that he was aware of preseason media rankings placing his team fourth in state, but he doesn’t think that affects his team.

“I don’t think we put any pressure on ourselves,” he said. “We try to push our team as hard as we can and then we put a product on the field on Friday and we give them the confidence to be able to play good teams.”

Butner explained that all the players in the program buy into the team atmosphere he and his coaching staff are trying to instill, so that sophomores and juniors that play JV are ready to step in and contribute as seniors – and not get frustrated by the lack of playing time along the way.

“That’s something that’s lost I think sometimes is if (underclass-

men) don’t get that instant gratification of playing varsity right away a lot of times kids will quit,” Butner said. “Our kids show something that they’re willing to stick with our program and then they come in as seniors after two years on JV and are huge impact guys for us.”

It’s all part of a bigger philosophy that Butner says comes not only from the football team, but encompasses all the sports programs at the school.

“It’s definitely something we’re trying to build here,” he said.

“Trying to be a part of something that’s bigger than you.

“It’s always something that we preach – to wear the jersey on a Friday night, on game day, and be proud of that. Whether you’re playing 85 snaps a game or you’re getting in two or three at the end, be proud that you play for a team that you work your tail off at practice for and that you’re part of a group that will take care of you.”

Ferris (2-7, 0-5): The Saxons come off a disappointing season, but second-year coach Tom Yea-

rout thinks things are looking up.

He said speed and athleticism at numerous positions will be a strength. “We have to find consistency with our offensive line and be able to effectively finish drives and possessions,” Yearout said. “In order to be competitive, we must take care of the football and win the special teams phase each game.” Senior honorable mention all-league CB/WR Brock Bozett and DE Chris Homen are back to lead the defense, while senior RB Nate Schlosser will be relied upon heavily on offense. Homen is potential all-league in three sports, qualifying for state in wrestling and 110-meter hurdles last year.

Lewis and Clark (4-6, 2-3): Ninth-year coach Dave Hughes is excited about his team and believes the Tigers can be very competitive in the GSL. He has 11 starters and 25 lettermen back for the new campaign, including six allleague honorable mentions: QB Michael Flaherty, RB Keani Guthmueller, WR Xavier Guillory, OL Xander Werkman, DL Cur-

tis Bell and DL Dustin Burns.

Guillory is a potential Division I athlete, with offers from several schools already, and started on the basketball team that finished third in state last year. Flaherty is a “great student, leader and person,” according to Hughes, and is a three-sport athlete as well. “Our offensive line is primarily seniors and are physical, big and strong,” Hughes said. “On defense, our strength is our D-line with three returning starting seniors.”

Mead (5-6, 2-3): DL Nathan Puletasi will have his choice of where he wants to continue his football career. He’s had at least five scholarship offers already and according to one GSL coach, “You can’t block him with just one person.” Joining Puletasi on defense is first-team all-league DB Cam Crawford, also a state-caliber wrestler. Fourth-year coach Benji Sonnichsen noted this year’s senior class is the first cycle of players who have been in the program since they were freshmen. “We are physically stronger and our team unity is the best it has been in four seasons,” he said.

“We have 23 seniors that understand our program expectations and have prepared to win.” Senior Ryan Chan is the quarterback, with Crawford and Isaiah Saldana handling the running duties.

Hard-working TE Ben Voightlaender and WR Michael Workman will be favorite targets of Chan in the passing game.

University (6-4, 2-3): The Titans lost three first-team allleague selections and 23 lettermen to graduation, but third-year coach Adam Daniel has a whopping 48 players returning to varsity. Back to lead the offense is QB Gavin Wolcott, who completed more than 75 percent of his passes last season. Joining Wolcott in the backfield are honorable mention all-league Isaac Matt and Chris Taylor, both of whom will do double duty in the defensive backfield as well. Kye Duplessis will be the deep threat as Daniel hopes to take advantage of overall team speed. One area U-Hi looks to rebuild is the line, as all-league OL Campbell Barrington is off to BYU. “We must develop our offensive and defensive lines to replace a host of graduates,” Daniel said.

THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW • THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 • SPECIAL 21

EAGLES THINK ‘NEXT MAN UP’ GNL 2A

By Steve Christilaw FOR THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

It means something to be a West Valley football player.

The Eagles graduated 19 players off a team that posted a 22-3 record over the past two years – a ton of talent for any program. A year ago they took the program to the state semifinals before losing their only game.

A few years ago, coach Craig Whitney said, West Valley had six road games on its schedule for the season. Five of those road games was the opponents’ Homecoming game.

“Everybody wanted to play us for their Homecoming game,” he laughed. “For those games, the halftime is always longer than usual and it always meant an extralate night getting home.”

The Eagles look to maintain that program luster in a new season, but with a new cast of characters.

“We have to hope that our young guys will get up to speed with the varsity game quickly,” Whitney said. “We had some great competition every day in practice last year at a lot of positions.”

Whitney isn’t talking about a rebuilding season, but it will test his program’s philosophy of “next man up.”

Gone are team leaders Connor Whitney and Collin Sather, both All-Great Northern League receivers and defensive backs who were as versatile as they were talented.

Whitney, now a tight end for the University of Idaho, was the league’s defensive most valuable player.

Stepping into a bigger leadership role is junior quarterback Matt Allen, who threw for more than 300 yards and two touchdowns against Hockinson in last year’s semifinal battle. Allen shared time at quarterback with All-Great Northern League quarterback Blake Transue a year ago.

“Having Connor and Collin, and having Blake Transue there, too, took a lot of the pressure off and gave Matt a chance to grow into his role,” Whitney said. “He’s worked hard in the off-season and he came in bigger and faster than he was a year ago.

“The question now is who is he going to be throwing the ball to. We’re going to find out.”

While the secondary was a strength a year ago and the team returns a pair of starters in Hunter Tiffany and Alyjouah Rollins, the Eagles will likely rely on a solid core of linebackers this year.

“I think that’s going to be the strength of our defense,” Whitney said. “We’ve got some good, athletic kids there this year.”

Preseason pickers expect them to meet the test. The Seattle Times’ preseason high school football poll has the Eagles ranked No. 4 in Class 2A heading into their opener with North Central. Hockinson, the team that handed West Valley its only loss a year ago after a 12-0 start, is ranked No. 1. Tumwater is ranked No. 2 followed by Arch-

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West Valley quarterback Matt Allen threw for nearly 300 yards in the Eagles’ state semifinal loss to Hockinson last season. bishop Murphy. Selah, which lost to West Valley in a quarterfinal game a year ago, is ranked No. 5.

Meanwhile, four out of five GNL coaches made Pullman the preseason favorite to win the league, with the Greyhounds’ second-year coach, David Cofer, abstaining from any picks.

“We sat down and went over all the teams in our league, what kids they have back and who they have coming in,” Whitney said. “You’re going to have to be ready to play every week. It’s always been that way.”

Pullman (6-4, 3-1): Second-year coach David Cofer lost all-state tight end Jared Holstad and all-league two-way players Jeb Byers and Dietrik Mueller, but returns 17 lettermen, including senior quarterback Konner Kinkade and standout receivers junior Isaiah Strong and senior Jake Wells. Strong and Wells were both allleague defense as well. Senior James Pitzer and junior Henry Perkins will be counted upon to carry the load at running back.

Clarkston (6-4, 1-3): The Bantams lost four All-GNL players off last year’s

squad: running back Nate Savolainen and offensive lineman Brendan Reed from the first team and defensive line stalwarts Dawltin Phillips and CJ Hein, who were second-team selections. Savolainen set the single-season rushing record a year ago and the team will need to find both his replacement and replace key players on the offensive and defensive line. “Our team returns much of its skill positions,” coach Brycen Bye said. “We have a good nucleus of seniors and juniors with experience.”

Junior quarterback Kaeden Frazier will be improved with a season under his belt and two-way starter Tru Allen was a first-team All-GNL pick as a defensive back and a second-team selection as a wide receiver.

Cheney (0-8, 0-4): The Blackhawks will be improved over last year’s squad.

Coach Bobby Byrd loses a pair of first-team All-GNL performers in defensive lineman Logan Kendall and running back Charles Johnson, and must find a replacement for quarterback Cole Hinrichs. Junior Alex Long looks to take over under center and linebacker Mekhai Goodloe looks to improve on a junior season that saw him

tabbed second-team All-GNL. Defensive end Jacob McGourin is receiving offers from Division I programs and the coach expects big things from him in his senior season. “We have a good mix of veteran seniors and hungry underclassmen who have really worked hard this off-season,” Byrd said. “They are excited and have bought into being a team.”

East Valley (4-5, 2-2): Former North Central coach Tom Griggs begins his first season with the Knights, who need to rebound from losing All-American receiver Rodrick Fisher to Washington State, where he is poised to take a spot in the Cougars’ receiving rotation, and his dad, Adam Fisher, who stepped down as head coach in order to watch his son play college football.

Griggs has 10 starters and 21 lettermen returning. East Valley boasts strong offensive and defensive lines but lacks Friday night experience at many positions, especially on offense, where senior Casey Noack will try to step into big shoes. “To be competitive,” Griggs suggested, “we will (need to) be able to run the ball effectively and play stingy defense.”

Colville aiming for deep postseason run NORTHEAST A

Indians can do more than just run

By Ryan Collingwood THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

For the better part of Randy Cornwell’s 21 years as Colville’s head football coach, the traditionrich Indians have employed the yard-churning, clock-eating double-wing offense.

Four years ago, however, Cornwell began to open the playbook for quarterback Ben Knight, who often went to the air while leading Colville to the Class A state title game.

Knight’s now a junior at NAIA Eastern Oregon, but his younger brother, John Knight, has been throwing it all over the field for the Indians, who return 14 starters from last season’s Northeast A League championship team.

“We’ve diversified a bit,” joked Cornwell, whose team is the prohibitive preseason NEA favorite. “(John) Knight can really throw it, though. He throws a nice ball.”

The younger Knight, a 6-foot-2,

190-pound senior and state champion wrestler, passed for 1,500 yards and 15 touchdowns last season for run-first Colville, which outscored its league opponents 245-39 during the 2017 regular season.

Jakob Larson, another one of the league’s top playmakers, returns at running back after rushing for nearly nearly, 1,000 yards last fall. Fellow all-NEA selections Michael Fitzsimmons (OL/ LB), Chase Kanamu (WR/DB), Jacob Newsom (OL/DL) and Lucas Michaelson (K) also return for Colville.

The Indians (9-2, 7-0 in 2017) may have cruised during the regular season but fell to league rival Newport 21-7 in the state quarterfinals. Colville won the regular season game 28-14.

“It fueled our offseason workouts,” Cornwell said of the loss.

“This is a hungry, driven group that works for everything they get.”

QUARTERBACKS Continued from 19 70 yards. He’s a special athlete, for sure.”

Hill said starting at quarterback from the time he was a sophomore comes with a challenge of being a leader to older players. He said having the “senior” title to his name will help carry weight for him.

“It feels way better,” he admitted.

“Being an underclassman is tough but the guys have rallied around (me) no matter what age.”

Hill said his favorite thing about his team is its togetherness.

Deer Park (6-4, 3-4): The Stags return five starters on both sides of the ball from a team that finished 5-4 last season, including two-way all-NEA lineman Aiden Shroyer and quarterback Lucas Keller.

“We’ll be a young football team that has seniors at some key positions to lead us,” said Keith Stamps, Deer Park’s 14-year head coach. “In order to be competitive in this league, the returning starters and new players need to develop in all three phases.”

Freeman (7-4, 5-2): Longtime head coach Jim Wood stepped down last winter. Former Rogers High head coach Ben Cochran steps in, inheriting a program that returns just four starters.

Seniors Dakota Steiger (OL/ DL) and Jackson Whitaker (DB/ TE) will be looked to help carry the young Scotties, who made the playoffs last season.

“The team unity this year and football intelligence is our strength and our weakness is youth,” Cochran said.

Lakeside (6-3, 4-3): The Eagles lost the majority of their let-

“I love the brotherhood aspect of this team,” he said. “We’ve all come together.

We’ve all been hanging out. We’ve been friends since we were little. I love that.

Coming together as friends and brothers.”

Cloer praised Ayers, who will play safety and linebacker, as “another coach on the field.”

“Last year he started the first game for us at quarterback – Brady was out sick early on in the year. He beat Peninsula on the road as a quarterback. He played slot for us. He played wide receiver, running back.

“We call him ‘Slash.’ He probably doesn’t even know who Kordell Stewart

termen from last year’s 6-3 squad, but they do return a dangerous duo.

All-NEA quarterback and linebacker Kasen Hunsaker and allleague receiver and state 100-meter spring champion Micah Holmes will look to keep Lakeside’s offense moving.

“We will have a very talented senior group with the majority of them being skill players,” Lakeside coach Devin Bauer said. “We will have a young line that will need to find its identity and learn quickly. This group is very hungry and is setting its goals high.”

Medical Lake (0-9, 0-7): First-year coach Jeremy Bahr takes over a struggling Medical Lake program that went winless again last season. He reports growing numbers, enthusiasm and athleticism.

“Our offense will be guided by either Aiden Lyrla or Carter Pivonka at QB. Both players are unique in their skill set; it will be fun to see their development,” Bahr said.

Newport (10-2, 6-1): The Grizzlies made their deepest run in program history by advancing

is but we call him ‘Slash’ because he’s all over the place. He’s just a headsy player.

He understands the game.”

Ayers loves the challenge.

“I like doing it because it gets me on the field,” he said. “But it can be a little overwhelming and I have to put a little more thought into it. I gotta remember this, this and that. But it’s fun.”

The Wildcats are ranked ninth in state 3A to start the season. Like Prep, that recognition for the program speaks volumes.

“I look at it,” Cloer admitted. “I’m a little bit of a geek about that stuff. I’m a west-side guy so I like to see who’s over there, and just kind of see the possible

to the state semifinals, knocking off league champ Colville in the process.

Now Newport must overcome the graduation of 12 seniors, including the league’s most electrifying player, quarterback Kao Pancho.

The Grizzlies return 10 starters, including standout running back Danny Bradbury, receiver Tug Smith and two-way lineman Jacob Tanner.

“Our strength is a lack of depth, so to be successful it will require us to be mentally tough,” Newport coach Dave Pomante said. “We look forward to this challenge and maximizing our ability.”

Riverside (5-5, 2-5): Thirdyear head coach Buddy Wood returns 12 starters from a Rams team that finished 5-5 in 2017.

Quarterback and all-NEA defensive back TJ Trepanier will be looked to spearhead Riverside, along with Sammy DesRoches, an all-NEA linebacker.

“We are a young team with a lot of enthusiasm,” Wood said. “We only have six seniors, but they are strong leaders on and off the field.”

matchups down the road. I look at them, but I don’t put too much into them.

“You love having the respect, but it’s obviously something that’s earned and we’ll see what happens,” Cloer said.

Cloer said the real motivation comes internally.

“You get that culture established that the kids have bought into from day one, and your leaders know how things work and how things happen. You have to reestablish it every year some, and you have to put the time in because you don’t want to get complacent.

“We talk about a standard of excellence around here, and then we try to have that every year.”

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Senior running back Silas Perreiah has been the key piece in the Northwest Christian offense since his freshman season.

Perreiah expected to lead Crusaders NORTHEAST 2B

Liberty loaded again out of South division

By Justin Reed THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Northwest Christian has had a simple recipe for success in past seasons: hand the ball to running back Silas Perreiah and watch him run. The senior running back has been the focal point of the Crusader offense each of his three seasons – and no doubt will be again this year.

“His game speaks for itself with his rushing yards and his touchdowns – he is a workhorse,” firstyear head coach Brian Gardner said.

That won’t change this year, even with a revamped offense scheme.

“We kind of changed up this year offensive-wise, but it has been a pretty smooth transition,” Gardner said. “We have all these junior and senior returns and the communication piece has been huge.”

Perreiah will be running behind a strong offensive line which retained four of five starters. The fullback is also unchanged meaning Perreiah is in line for another big season.

“I would put [Perreiah’s] work ethic up against anybody,” Gardner said. “He grinds, he works hard in practice everyday and doesn’t let off. He is a football junkie. He wants to learn everything he can to be a better player on the field. He has it all.”

The senior is being scouted by several college teams, most no-

SCHEDULES Aug. 30 Colton vs. Sunnyside Christian, 6 p.m.

West Valley vs. North Central at Albi, 7 p.m.

Aug. 31 Northport vs. Wellpinit, 3 p.m.

Damien vs. Mt. Spokane at Whitworth, 4 p.m.

Lewiston vs. Shadle Park at Albi, 5:30 p.m.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline vs. Cusick, 7 p.m.

Chewelah vs. Omak, 7 p.m.

Columbia vs. Selkirk, 7 p.m.

Colville vs. Cheney, 7 p.m.

Davenport vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, 7 p.m.

Deer Park vs. East Valley, 7 p.m.

Freeman vs. Timberlake, 7 p.m.

Gonzaga Prep vs. Coeur d’Alene, 7 p.m.

Lakeside vs. Pullman, 7 p.m.

Lewis and Clark vs. Lake City, 7 p.m.

Mead vs. Post Falls, 7 p.m.

Moscow vs. Clarkston, 7 p.m.

Newport vs. Bonners Ferry, 7 p.m.

Northwest Christian vs. Reardan, 7 p.m.

Orofino vs. Asotin, 7 p.m.

Priest River vs. Riverside, 7 p.m.

Selkirk vs. Columbia, 7 p.m.

Springdale vs. Fettle Falls, 7 p.m.

St. John-Endicott vs. Pomeroy, 7 p.m.

Tonasket vs. Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m.

University vs. Sandpoint, 7 p.m.

Chewelah vs. Omak, 7:30 p.m.

Moses Lake vs. Ferris at Albi, 8 p.m.

Sept. 1 Liberty vs. Napavine, 10 a.m.

Bellevue vs. Central Valley, 1 p.m.

Colfax vs. Wahkiakum, 1 p.m.

Lakeland vs. Rogers at Albi, 1 p.m.

Garfield-Palouse vs. Touchet, 2 p.m.

Sept. 6 Cheney vs. Rogers at Albi, 7 p.m.

Sept. 7 Pullman vs. North Central at Albi, 8 p.m.

Columbia vs. Wellpinit, 3 p.m.

Pomeroy vs. Touchet, 3 p.m.

Pullman vs. North Central at Albi, 5 p.m.

Coeur d’Alene vs. Mead at EWU, 6 p.m.

Asotin vs. McCall-Donnelly, 7 p.m.

Clarkston vs. Grangeville, 7 p.m.

Colfax vs. Freeman, 7 p.m.

East Valley vs. Lakeland, 7 p.m.

Ferris vs. Lake City, 7 p.m.

Kellogg vs. Orofino, 7 p.m.

Liberty vs. Chewelah, 7 p.m.

Lind-Ritzville/Sprague vs. Northwest Christaian, 7 p.m.

Mead vs. Coeur d’Alene, 7 p.m.

Medical Lake vs. Okanogan, 7 p.m.

Mt. Spokane vs. Moses Lake, 7 p.m.

Northwest Christian vs. Lind-Ritzville/

tably by Washington State, Eastern Washington and Idaho.

“He doesn’t have anything in stone yet. I think coaches want to see how he is going to do his senior year,” Gardner said. “He is a big, strong kid who runs hard and will run by you or through you.”

“He doesn’t have anything set yet, but whoever does is going to have a gem, that is for sure.”

The Crusaders will have a new quarterback under center this year after Brett MacKenzie graduated.

Senior Jake Gray, the point guard for the NWC basketball team, tried out for football for the first time in high school and earned the starting job.

“He has been looking real good.

Hard worker, smart,” Gardner said. “We’re really excited about him.”

Senior Reed Loranger is a 6foot-2 wide receiver, another basketball player who also is new this year after trying out for the first time.

Even though both players are new to the sport, senior leadership can’t be taken for granted however you can get it.

“I don’t think I have ever had this much senior leadership on a team before,” Gardner, said. “It just makes everything run so much smoother.”

Gardner spent the last three seasons as the defensive coordinator for the Crusaders, but before that he was the head coach at North Central for six years.

Northeast 2B North Chewelah (2-7 in 1A): The Cougars drop down this season, changing the dynamics in both leagues. First-year coach Cameron Gump has his work cut out for him. “Dropping down to a new

Sprague, 7 p.m.

Odessa vs. Cusick, 7 p.m.

Omak vs. Lakeside, 7 p.m.

Priest River vs. Newport, 7 p.m.

Raymond (AB) vs. Sandpoint, 7 p.m.

Reardan vs. Davenport, 7 p.m.

Riverside vs. Bonners Ferry, 7 p.m.

Selkirk vs. Entiat, 7 p.m.

Shadle Park vs. West Valley , 7 p.m.

St. Maries vs. Deer Park, 7 p.m.

Sunnyside Christian vs. Garfield-Palouse, 7 p.m.

Timberlake vs. Moscow, 7 p.m.

University vs. Post Falls, 7 p.m.

Wenatchee vs. Lewiston, 7 p.m.

Wilbur-Creston vs. Springdale, 7 p.m.

Davis vs. Lewis and Clark at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 8 Central Valley vs. Garfield, 1 p.m.

Colville vs. Meridian, 1 p.m.

Tacoma Baptist vs. Almira/Coulee-Hartline, 2 p.m.

St. Ignatius vs. Gonzaga Prep, 6 p.m.

Sept. 13 Touchet vs. Sunnyside Christian, 7 p.m.

Sept. 14 Bridgeport vs. Wellpinit, 3 p.m.

Curlew vs. Columbia, 3 p.m.

Entiat vs. Almira/Coulee-Hartline, 3 p.m.

Northport vs. Springdale, 6 p.m.

Shadle Park vs. Cheney at EWU, 6 p.m.

Asotin vs. DeSales, 7 p.m.

Chewelah vs. Colville, 7 p.m.

Colton vs. Pomeroy, 7 p.m.

Davenport vs. Colfax, 7 p.m.

Deer Park vs. Newport, 7 p.m.

Eisenhower vs. Coeur d’Alene, 7 p.m.

Freeman vs. Riverside, 7 p.m.

Gonzaga Prep vs. University, 7 p.m.

Lake City vs. Lakeland, 7 p.m.

Lewis and Clark vs. Central Valley, 7 p.m.

Lewiston vs. Clarkston, 7 p.m.

Medical Lake vs. Lakeside, 7 p.m.

Moscow vs. Pullman, 7 p.m.

Moses Lake vs. Post Falls, 7 p.m.

North Central vs. East Valley , 7 p.m.

Northwest Christian vs. Tri-Cities Prep, 7 p.m.

Odessa vs. Waterville-Mansfield, 7 p.m.

Rogers vs. Timberlake, 7 p.m.

Sandpoint vs. Mt. Spokane at Albi, 7 p.m.

Selkirk vs. Cusick, 7 p.m.

St. Maries vs. Priest River, 7 p.m.

Thompson Falls (MT) vs. Bonners Ferry, 7 p.m.

West Valley vs. Othello, 7 p.m.

Wilbur-Creston vs.

Lind-Ritzville/ Sprague, 7 p.m.

Mead vs. Ferris at Albi, 8 p.m.

Sandpoint vs. Mt. Spokane at Albi, 8 p.m.

Sept. 20 University vs. Rogers at Albi, 7 p.m.

Sept. 21 Cusick vs. Columbia, 3 p.m.

North Central vs. Mead at Albi, 5 p.m.

league this year has created a lot of buzz around the whole community,” Gump said. “A new coaching staff – along with a new offense – has created a lot of excitement that has been lacking in previous years.” Gump expects his team to be faster and boast some strong underclassmen. He’ll get senior leadership from Slot/LB Kaden Mackowiak and WR/C John Larson, along with linemen Wade Baker and Robbie Hopkins.

Sophomore transfer Slot/LB Bowen Middlesworth could make an immediate impact on both sides of the ball.

Wilbur-Creston (4-6): The Wildcats have good size, strength, athleticism and experience up front and could boast their best offensive line since moving up to 11man football in 2014. All five starters return, plus Cole Rosman comes back from missing last season due to injury. “This is the third year in the system for the kids,” said seventh-year coach Darin Reppe. “A lot of teaching and learning took place last year and now the kids know what is expected out of them.” Senior leadership will come from QB/LB Ethen Tesch, RB/DL Aaron McDowell and WR/LB Jake Mattox.

Northeast 2B South Colfax (6-4): Coach Mike Morgan returns for his 21st season at the helm. He returns four starters and 15 lettermen, including both-ways all-league lineman Augie Allenbach. The Bulldogs should be strong up front and at receiver, with seniors Gabe Ahmann and Dakota Hall on the outside.

Who will be doing the throwing will be a work in progress, with junior Gunnar Aune and sophomore Layne Gingerich battling for

Cheney vs. Cashmere, 7 p.m.

Columbia vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, 7 p.m.

East Valley vs. Lake City, 7 p.m.

Eastmont vs. West Valley , 7 p.m.

Heppner vs. Colfax, 7 p.m.

Highland vs. Coeur d’Alene, 7 p.m.

Kellogg vs. Asotin, 7 p.m.

Lakeside vs. Colville, 7 p.m.

Liberty vs. Northwest Christian, 7 p.m.

Manson vs. Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m.

Moscow vs. Bonners Ferry, 7 p.m.

Mt. Spokane vs. Central Valley, 7 p.m.

Newport vs. Freeman, 7 p.m.

Odessa vs. Pateros, 7 p.m.

Orofino vs. Clarkston, 7 p.m.

Pomeroy vs. Garfield-Palouse, 7 p.m.

Post Falls vs. Lakeland, 7 p.m.

Reardan vs. Chewelah, 7 p.m.

Riverside vs. Deer Park, 7 p.m.

Sandpoint vs. Lewiston, 7 p.m.

Shadle Park vs. Gonzaga Prep, 7 p.m.

St. John-Endicott vs. Sunnyside Christian, 7 p.m.

Timberlake vs. St. Maries, 7 p.m.

Wellpinit vs. Entiat, 7 p.m.

Ferris vs. Lewis and Clark at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Sept.22 Pullman vs. Black Hills, noon Grangeville vs. Priest River, 4 p.m.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline vs. Yakama Tribal, 7 p.m.

Sept. 27 Ferris vs. Shadle Park at Albi, 4:45 p.m.

Gonzaga Prep vs. Mt. Spokane at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 28 Springdale vs. Columbia, 3 p.m.

St. John-Endicott vs. Touchet, 3 p.m.

Rogers vs. Lewis and Clark at Albi, 5 p.m.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline vs. Bridgeport, 7 p.m.

Asotin vs. Reardan, 7 p.m.

Bonners Ferry vs. St. Maries, 7 p.m.

Cascade vs. Cheney, 7 p.m.

Chewelah vs. Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m.

Colville vs. Deer Park, 7 p.m.

Davenport vs. Liberty, 7 p.m.

Freeman vs. Medical Lake, 7 p.m.

Grangeville vs. Kellogg, 7 p.m.

Kettle Falls vs. Lake Roosevelt, 7 p.m.

Lakeland vs. Timberlake, 7 p.m.

Lewiston vs. Moscow, 7 p.m.

Lind-Ritzville/Sprague vs. Colfax, 7 p.m.

Mead vs. University, 7 p.m.

Oroville vs. Northwest Christian, 7 p.m.

Priest River vs. Orofino, 7 p.m.

Pullman vs. East Valley , 7 p.m.

Riverside vs. Lakeside, 7 p.m.

Sandpoint vs. Lake City, 7 p.m.

Sunnyside Christian vs. Pomeroy, 7 p.m.

Wellpinit vs. Odessa, 7 p.m.

West Valley vs. Clarkston, 7 p.m.

Central Valley vs. North Central at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

playing time. “We have a tough non-league schedule which will hopefully prepare us for an even tougher league schedule,” Morgan said.

Liberty (13-1): The Lancers settled for second in state for the second year in a row. Will this be the year they break through?

Coach Mike Dewey, back for his seventh season with Liberty, lost seven starters – including all-state RB James Heer and OT Beau St. John, and three other first team all-league players. Back is allleague lineman Jon Denny, who goes 6-foot-7, 305 and has been offered at Idaho. “We have a few guys back, but we will be young in some spots,” Dewey said, including at QB where talented but untested junior Jake Carr takes over for all-league Alec Fletcher.

Lind-Ritzville/Sprague (4-6): The Broncos have 13 lettermen and 11 starters returning, with many of the upperclassmen as multiyear starters having played as freshmen and sophomores.

Coach Greg Whitmore, in his 13th season, will lean on QB Bryce Kelly and RBs Austin Thompson and Spencer Gering, with linemen Morgan Brausen, Spencer Miller and Garrett Frederick opening the holes.

Reardan (4-6): All-league RB/LB Tyler Sprecher is one of the most talented players in the league and will lead 14-year coach Eric Nikkola’s squad. The Indians return 15 lettermen and six starters, including linemen Ozius Harde, Colton Cotter and JW Merriott.

“The strength of our team will be our defense,” Nikkola said. “We have an experienced group of linebackers and defensive lineman. If we can keep our running backs healthy, we will be competitive.”

Oct.4 Rogers vs. Ferris at Albi, 4:45 p.m.

North Central vs. Lewis and Clark at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 5 Waterville-Mansfield vs. Wellpinit, 3 p.m.

Bonners Ferry vs. Kellogg, 7 p.m.

Central Valley vs. Gonzaga Prep, 7 p.m.

Chewelah vs. Springdale, 7 p.m.

Clarkston vs. Pullman, 7 p.m.

Coeur d’Alene vs. Lewiston, 7 p.m.

Colfax vs. Liberty, 7 p.m.

Columbia vs. Northport, 7 p.m.

Colville vs. Riverside, 7 p.m.

Deer Park vs. Lakeside, 7 p.m.

East Valley vs. Cheney, 7 p.m.

Kittitas/Thorp vs. Asotin, 7 p.m.

Lakeland vs. West Valley, 7 p.m.

Mead vs. Mt. Spokane at Albi, 7 p.m.

Medical Lake vs. Newport, 7 p.m.

Moscow vs. Sandpoint, 7 p.m.

Northwest Christian vs. Davenport, 7 p.m.

Odessa vs. Almira/Coulee-Hartline, 7 p.m.

Okanogan vs. Freeman, 7 p.m.

Pomeroy vs. St. John-Endicott, 7 p.m.

Post Falls vs. Lake City, 7 p.m.

Reardan vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, 7 p.m.

Shadle Park vs. University, 7 p.m.

Sunnyside Christian vs. Colton, 7 p.m.

Timberlake vs. Priest River, 7 p.m.

West Valley vs. Lakeland, 7 p.m.

Wilbur-Creston vs. Kettle Falls, 7 p.m.

Oct. 11 University vs. Lewis and Clark at Albi, 4:45 p.m.

Gonzaga Prep vs. Mead at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 12 Wellpinit vs. Yakama Tribal, 3 p.m.

Wilbur-Creston vs. Northwest Christian, 3 p.m.

Mt. Spokane vs. Rogers at Albi, 5 p.m.

Almira/Coulee-Hartline vs. Pateros, 7 p.m.

Cheney vs. Clarkston, 7 p.m.

Colfax vs. Asotin, 7 p.m.

Columbia vs. Republic, 7 p.m.

Ferris vs. Central Valley, 7 p.m.

Garfield-Palouse vs. Sunnyside Christian, 7 p.m.

Kettle Falls vs. Chewelah, 7 p.m.

Lake City vs. Coeur d’Alene, 7 p.m.

Lakeside vs. Freeman, 7 p.m.

Lewiston vs. Post Falls, 7 p.m.

Liberty vs. Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, 7 p.m.

Newport vs. Colville, 7 p.m.

Northwest Christian vs. Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m.

Odessa vs. Bridgeport, 7 p.m.

Omak vs. Reardan, 7 p.m.

Priest River vs. Bonners Ferry, 7 p.m.

Pullman vs. West Valley , 7 p.m.

Riverside vs. Medical Lake, 7 p.m.

Sandpoint vs. Lakeland, 7 p.m.

Springdale vs. Davenport, 7 p.m.

Timberlake vs. Kellogg, 7 p.m.

Touchet vs. Pomeroy, 7 p.m.

North Central vs. Shadle Park at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Oct.18 Lewis and Clark vs. Mead at Albi, 7 p.m.

Oct. 19 Selkirk vs. Columbia, 3 p.m.

Sunnyside Christian vs. Touchet, 3 p.m.

Rogers vs. Shadle Park at Albi, 5 p.m.

Kettle Falls vs. Springdale, 6 p.m.

Asotin vs. Liberty, 7 p.m.

Bonners Ferry vs. Timberlake, 7 p.m.

Central Valley vs. University, 7 p.m.

Clarkston vs. East Valley, 7 p.m.

Coeur d’Alene vs. Post Falls, 7 p.m.

Cusick vs. Northport, 7 p.m.

Davenport vs. Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m.

Entiat vs. Odessa, 7 p.m.

Ferris vs. Gonzaga Prep, 7 p.m.

Freeman vs. Deer Park, 7 p.m.

Kellogg vs. Priest River, 7 p.m.

Lake City vs. Lewiston, 7 p.m.

Lakeland vs. Moscow, 7 p.m.

Lethbridge (AB) vs. Sandpoint, 7 p.m.

Medical Lake vs. Colville, 7 p.m.

Newport vs. Riverside, 7 p.m.

Northwest Christian vs. Chewelah, 7 p.m.

Othello vs. Pullman, 7 p.m.

Pomeroy vs. Colton, 7 p.m.

Reardan vs. Colfax, 7 p.m.

Wellpinit vs. Almira/Coulee-Hartline, 7 p.m.

West Valley vs. Cheney, 7 p.m.

Mt. Spokane vs. North Central at Albi, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 26 Pateros vs. Wellpinit, 3 p.m.

Clarkston vs. Columbia River, 6 p.m.

Cheney vs. Pullman, 7 p.m.

Chewelah vs. Davenport, 7 p.m.

Columbia vs. Tekoa-Rosalia, 7 p.m.

Colville vs. Freeman, 7 p.m.

Deer Park vs. Medical Lake, 7 p.m.

East Valley vs. West Valley , 7 p.m.

Garfield-Palouse vs. Pomeroy, 7 p.m.

Kettle Falls vs. Northwest Christian, 7 p.m.

Lakeside vs. Newport, 7 p.m.

Liberty vs. Reardan, 7 p.m.

Lind-Ritzville/Sprague vs. Asotin, 7 p.m.

Mead vs. Central Valley, 7 p.m.

Riverside vs. Chelan, 7 p.m.

Springdale vs. Wilbur-Creston, 7 p.m.

Sunnyside Christian vs. St. John-Endicott, 7 p.m.

Waterville-Mansfield vs. Almira/CouleeHartline, 7 p.m.

Yakama Tribal vs. Odessa, 7 p.m.

Gonzaga Prep vs. Lewis and Clark at Albi, TBD North Central vs. Rogers at Albi, TBD Shadle Park vs. Mt. Spokane at Albi, TBD University vs. Ferris at Albi, TBD Nov. 1 Pomeroy vs. Sunnyside Christian, 6 p.m.

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Every week a homecoming for Sandpoint’s Knowles

By Jim Meehan THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

New Sandpoint football coach Ryan Knowles was busy after a recent practice placing decals on helmets.

“I’m going to go paint the field when I’m done,” he said.

His new job carries some additional chores that many prep coaches perform on a routine basis. Safe to say he didn’t have to paint the field during his 12 years as an assistant at Colgate.

Knowles doesn’t mind a bit. The chance to return home and become a firsttime head coach tipped the scales over continuing as an assistant at a successful FCS program.

“There weren’t many jobs I would have left for,” Knowles said. “I’d been (at Colgate) for 12 years and I just kind of wanted to be a head coach. When they called it was principal Tom Albertson and he was my freshman coach, and we were talking about the job and if I knew anybody. I’ve always been interested in coming home.”

Knowles was all-in after they found common ground on compensation and details important to the job and the program.

“I can fulfill all my (coaching) excitement here,” said Knowles, one of Sandpoint’s most decorated players who went on to start for four seasons at defensive end at Idaho. “I can raise my family where I grew up.”

Knowles’ wife, Megan, is a Ferris High grad. They have two children, daughter Aubrey and son Drew. Knowles’ staff includes his dad, John, who was a longtime Bulldogs assistant, another reason Knowles made the move.

“I dragged him out of retirement,” he said. “He’s coaching the defensive line.”

Knowles takes over a program that went 3-7 last year and won the 4A IEL before falling to Middleton 42-10 in the state playoffs. The Bulldogs appear to be slight favorites over Lakeland and Moscow as the three programs chase two state berths.

Sandpoint’s defensive should be stout up front with 2017 IEL defensive MVP Alex Stockton, All-IEL linebackers Tyler Lehman and Payton Cox, and lineman Karsen Fournier, whom Knowles called a “tremendous leader.”

The offense features with all-league running back Dillan Mitton, quarterback Jaxon Pettit and receivers Hun-

ter Elliott, Declan Plummer and Christian Niemela.

Offensive lineman Brandon Casey also will see time on the defensive front and Stockton will take snaps at tight end.

“I really think we’re a balanced crew,” Knowles said.

“We have skill at every position but we’re thin at some.

There’ll be some guys playing both ways.”

Lakeland: The Hawks graduated a ton of talent from the 2017 team that finished 3-7 and lost in the opening round of the state playoffs.

“We’ll probably start seven underclassmen offensively,” coach Tim Kiefer said. “We were at camp playing against Flathead and we had 11 juniors on the field on defense. We’re young.”

The Hawks return five All-IEL players in wide receiver Trey McArthur, linebacker Travis Derrick, defensive back Ezra Griggs, kicker Ammon Munyer and punter Collin Bell.

Derrick and Griggs will see time on offense at guard and running back, respectively. Griggs was on JV most of 2017 but made a splash late in the season. Munyer will play on the defensive line but Kiefer wasn’t sure if the sophomore will continue kicking.

Projected starting quarterback Brandon Furey’s targets will include the McArthur brothers, Trey and Isaac.

“How we start out, I don’t know,” Kiefer said. “But I can tell you we’re going to get better each week.”

Moscow: The Bears have an excellent opportunity to return to the state playoffs for the first time since coach Phil Helbling’s initial season in 2012. Moscow’s first string is solid but depth remains a concern.

“Something we’re really working on is handling adversity,” Helbling said. “It’s going to strike so how we handle it is really critical. If we can do that, I feel like we’ll be in good shape. We have good athletes and players. Our numbers (27 on varsity) are about the same (as recent seasons) so it’s keeping guys healthy.”

Bears to watch include running back-safety Derek Rauch-Edwards, WR-DB Jacob Gray, WR-DB Jacob Cardwell, WR-DB Brekken Mower, quarterback Chad Redinger and linemen AJ Fahey, Aaron Nickerson and Dimas Barajas.

By Justin Reed THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Two years removed from a state title, St. Maries and head coach Craig Tefft are looking to bounce back after a down year in 2017.

For that to happen, the current group of seniors will need to conjure some of the magic surrounding the team when they were sophomores.

“They seem to be a really hungry group of guys and I am excited to see how well they lead and how far they can take our team and the season this year,” Tefft said.

In order for the goal to be realized, the Lumberjacks will need to keep the injury bug away.

“With us being a small school, injuries are always a big concern,” Tefft said. “You lose a couple of guys and thing can get derailed pretty quick.”

Senior Caden Hall was one of the key players who went down with a season-ending injury last season. But he is now part of the

INLAND EMPIRE LEAGUE 5A

NEW-LOOK VIKS IN USUAL SPOT AS FRONT RUNNERS Post Falls must replace 20 seniors

By Jim Meehan THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

This has become an annual deal for Coeur d’Alene, replacing the exodus of all-league – and in some cases, all-state – players from the previous season.

It’s an even bigger challenge with 13 All-Inland Empire League selections from last year’s 5A state runner-up squad moving on, many to the college game.

“That’s a high number,” coach Shawn Amos said. “That was a very talented class.”

Count Amos among those curious to see how the new-look Vikings fare in 2018, but the veteran coach has extensive experience reloading rosters.

“We tell our kids we want everyone to say, ‘How do you replace all those kids?’” said Amos, who guided CdA to state titles in 2010, 2011 and 2013. “We have a number of kids waiting in the wings.”

The Vikings always do, and nothing has changed in terms of expectations. Coeur d’Alene remains the 5A IEL favorite with Lewiston considered the most likely challenger.

“Coeur d’Alene is the one on top until somebody knocks them off,” new Lake City coach Brian Fulp said. “The other teams, it’s going to be a dogfight. There’s nothing really guaranteed. We’re pretty young and Post Falls is relatively young, too.”

The Vikings have just four returning starters and one of those, All-IEL linebacker Garrett Hagel, will miss the first two games for an athletic code violation.

Kale Edwards, sidelined most of

last season while recovering from a broken leg, steps in for do-it-all quarterback Colson Yankoff, a freshman at Washington. Amos said the 6-foot-4, 215-pound Edwards is “strong, smart and a coach’s kid.” Edwards’ dad, Derek, coaches linebackers.

Shilo Morgan takes over at starting running back after gaining more than 800 yards last season.

The Viks will utilize roughly eight wide receivers that also will see time in the defensive secondary.

Two-way threats are common on Amos’ teams. He calls them “1.5 or 1.25 guys,” players who operate at one position while taking a lesser number of snaps at another. Amos expects seven players in the defensive line rotation and 11 in the mix at WR-DB. The Vikings have assembled another grueling nonleague schedule.

They’ll face Highland, which handed CdA a 14-8 loss in the title game, GSL power Gonzaga Prep and Mead.

“I feel like this group has been raised up in the program,” Amos said, “but we won’t know on a number of these guys until we see how they react. We’ll find out who can elevate real quick.”

Post Falls: The Trojans were hit hard by graduation after last season’s 8-2 campaign and trip to the playoffs. The two-deep will look completely different after the exit of 20 seniors, eight who made the All-5A IEL team.

“We’re obviously young,” coach Blaine Bennett said. “We’re still trying to find the right people to play the right positions. We’re kind of a work in progress but we have a lot of good kids and high expectations as always.”

Justin Gies and Terran Sharbrough anchor the offensive line.

Derek Pearse had a slight edge on

relman should be leaders. “We are pretty young but most of these guys were either starters or played quite a bit last year at the varsity level,” Kramer said. “If we can get the offensive line going we have a pretty deep backfield with different options.” Juniors Matt Morgan and Ashton Blumestrong core of senior leaders rea- neor look to anchor the lines on both dy to make a comeback. sides of the ball.

“He was one of the ones we lost Kellogg (6-3): The Wildcats last year, and it took us a while to won the league last year in coach Dan recover from that and fill in for Lucier’s debut season. Lucier lost two the things we asked of him,” Tefft all-state players in Chase Jerome and said. “He is back and healthy and Ryan Morgan, plus two more allhe seems to be that kid who the league players. League defensive kids gravitate to for leadership MVP junior Justin Lehto returns at liand playmaking. He’s a pretty nebacker and will play on the offensspecial kid.” ive line, as will returning all-league seAs for their team motto, the nior linemen Branden Miller and Owen Lumberjacks have accepted one Seitz. Raiden Rickets, who started in from a football camp this sum- 2016 at QB, will be under center again. mer.

“We have tough kids that love foot“Eat till you sweat.” ball,” Lucier said. “We must come toThe goal for St. Maries is to get gether as a team that loves one anbigger, faster and stronger and other.” the best way to do that is to put on Priest River (4-5): Justin Torfin healthy weight. takes over the reins for the Spartans.

“We pride ourselves on work- He’ll have some talent to work with. ing hard in the weight room and Senior Robbie Anselmo was firstbecoming better football players team all-league at RB and DB and through strength training,” Tefft Keegan Hagel was second-team at said. “We really looked at the diet RB. Paving the way are Aaron Reyes side of things and we want kids to and Cole Thompson, both selected as put good weight on.” second-team linemen. Sophomore Coby Rogers will compete for time Intermountain League (3A) calling signals.

Bonners Ferry (1-8): Coach CoTimberlake (1-7): The Tigers ry Kramer, in his fourth season with have 25 lettermen and 16 starters rethe Badgers, returns 10 lettermen and turning for coach Roy Albertson, back six starters. Junior QB/DB Ty Bate- at the helm for his 15th season after man and senior RB/DB Donavan Va- suffering a heart attack during prac-

St. Maries hungry for bounce-back year IDAHO SMALL SCHOOLS

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Coeur d'Alene quarterback Kale Edwards is set to replace Colson Yankoff, who is now at Washington.

tice last September. There’s lots of experience, but some depth issues. “We need to be consistent on both sides of the ball, improve our turnover ratio and stay healthy,” Alberston said. Junior QB Joey Follini, who was a secondteam all-league selection, and a trio or RBs – second-team All-IML junior Jeremy McLemore plus seniors Chase Gordon and Luis Powell – will pace the offense, with all-league senior lineman Ben Schrader opening holes. McLemore was also a first-team pick at LB.

1A Clark Fork (4-5): All-league QB/LB and four-year starter Wade Stevens graduated and sophomore Cameron Garcia will be asked to take over the offense for coach Brian Arthun. Garcia will have help from junior receiver Josh Constantin, who scored 13 touchdowns last season. Senior RB Theo Icardo is back too, and led the Wampus Cats to a pair of wins late in the season to make the playoffs.

Kootenai (2-6): All-league QB Gage Maitland and WR Triston Usdrowski return for coach Doug Napierala. The pair combined for seven touchdown passes in the first three weeks of last season before injuries derailed a once-promising season.

Lakeside (5-4): All-league QB Bryar Sanchez has graduated, but fifth-year coach Chris Dohrman still has plenty to work with. “We have a good group of returning players that will do well for us this year,” he said.

“We need to find some leadership and fill our quarterback position in order to have a good season and be competi-

Jake Rutherford and Alex Horning for the starting quarterback job. All three are capable of playing receiver and cornerback.

The secondary should be a strength with the Rutherford brothers, Jake and Cole, at cornerback, and Carsen Daughenbaugh at senior.

Lake City: The Timberwolves elevated Fulp from JV coach to head coach to replace Bryce Erickson, who went 5-12 overall and 0-6 against 5A IEL foes the last two years.

“I’ve coached these seniors,” Fulp said. “They definitely seem hungry to prove themselves.

They’ve been through a couple of tough years. They want to show how Lake City football is going to be.”

Five seniors – running back Zane Lettau, LB-WR Lucas Briner, DBWR Travis Jerome, OL-DL Jackson Bronsell and LB-TE Nick Kaufman – should be key contributors.

Sophomore Chris Irvin is the expected starter at quarterback.

“He started three games on the freshman team, moved up to JV and actually got in for a series in the last varsity game,” Fulp said. “He watches the most film of all the kids by quite a ways.”

Lewiston: The Bengals experienced a youth movement last season after losing 21 starters from a 9-2 team in 2016. Those youngsters are now seasoned, giving Lewiston 26 seniors versus 13 last season.

“That’s where you want to be, and a lot of them are returning starters,” second-year coach Matt Pancheri said. “All of our skill positions, minus one kid, are coming back on offense and defense.”

Names to watch include quarterback Tyson Wallace, WR-S Connor Spencer, LB-RB Treyce Bradley and WR-S Kyle Alford.

tive.” All-league junior RB/LB Devin Arroyo is back to lug the ball around with senior lineman Trey Winclaw and junior Lazarus Iron Cloud paving the way.

Mullan (1-6): The Tigers are operating as a co-op with Montana’s St. Regis. Mullan’s Stetson Spooner is the head coach in his eighth year, while St. Regis coach Jesse Allan is the defensive coordinator. “Both St. Regis and Mullan schools and communities are excited for the challenge of competing and getting the opportunity for our towns’ kids to be able to play the greatest game on earth,” Spooner said. “Honestly, it’s just being able to compete without the lingering fear of forfeiting games due to one little injury or a quitter.” Junior second-team all-state WR Skye Gallaway returns to lead the offense, with senior QB Joe Morris throwing him the ball.

Timberline (1-8): First-year coach Pat Christopherson takes over a team that has won once over the past two seasons. He’ll lean on sophomore RB/LB Chase Hunter, who Christopherson describes as the hardest worker on the team. Hunter will be joined by junior RB Andrew Anderson and freshman QB Hunter Bower. Senior Carter McCollum returns to anchor both lines.

Wallace (3-6): Fourth-year coach Jared Young has a pair of allleague players returning: secondteam senior QB Erik Brackebusch and honorable mention senior WR Carter Bailey. Senior RB/LB Triston Neubauer will figure big on both sides of the ball.

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SHOWTIMES Sept. 9: at Broncos, 1:25 p.m.

Sept. 17: at Bears, 5:15 p.m.

Sept. 23: vs. Cowboys, 1:25 p.m.

Sept. 30: at Cardinals, 1:05 p.m.

Oct. 7: vs. Rams, 1:25 p.m.

Oct. 14: vs. Raiders (London), 10 a.m.

Oct. 28: at Lions, 10 a.m.

Nov. 4: vs. Chargers, 1:05 p.m.

Nov. 11: at Rams, 1:25 p.m.

Nov. 15: vs. Packers, 5:20 p.m.

Nov. 25: at Panthers, 10 a.m.

Dec. 2: vs. 49ers, 5:20 p.m.

Dec. 10: vs. Vikings, 5:15 p.m.

Dec. 16: at 49ers, 1:05 p.m.

Dec. 23: vs. Chiefs, 5:20 p.m.

Dec. 30: vs. Cardinals, 1:25 p.m.

STARRING OFFENSE (PROJECTED)

Quarterback Russell Wilson ........... 5-11, 215 Running back Chris Carson .............5-11, 220 Wide receivers Doug Baldwin ......... 5-10, 190 Tyler Lockett ........... 5-10, 180 Jaron Brown ............ 6-3, 205 Tight end Ed Dickson .............. 6-4, 250 Tackles Duane Brown ........... 6-4, 315 Germain Ifedi .......... 6-5, 325 Guards Ethan Pocic ............. 6-6, 320 D.J. Fluker ............... 6-5, 340 Center Justin Britt ................ 6-6, 315 DEFENSE Ends Frank Clark .............. 6-3, 265 Rasheem Green ......6-4, 280 Tackles Jarran Reed ............. 6-3, 305 Tom Johnson .......... 6-3, 285 Linebackers Bobby Wagner ....... 6-0, 245 K.J. Wright .............. 6-4, 245 Barkevious Mingo ... 6-5, 235 Cornerbacks Shaquill Griffin ....... 6-0, 200 Byron Maxwell ......... 6-1, 205 Safeties Tedric Thompson ...6-0, 205 Bradley McDougald ... 6-1, 215 SPECIAL TEAMS Kicker Sebastian Janikowski . 6-1, 260 Punter Michael Dickson ....... 6-2, 210 Kick returner Tyler Lockett ........... 5-10, 180 Punt returner David Moore ............. 6-0, 215

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By John Blanchette FOR THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

They can run, but they can’t save their hides.

OK, well maybe Russell Wilson can – running is all that’s saved his in the past two seasons as quarterback of the Seattle Seahawks.

But remember how revered – and feared – the Seattle running game once was? So much so that when Pete Carroll called for the fateful pass from the 1-yard line in Super Bowl XLIX instead of handing the ball off to Marshawn Lynch for the win, he was ridiculed and roasted – barstool sport that continues to this day.

It will forever remain the longest yard for the Seahawks – the one that stood between them and beating the Patriots for a second straight title.

But on a practical level, the longest yard is the next one they need and try to get by handing off to their dubious collection of running backs, behind their even more dubious offensive line.

Carroll vowed in the off-season that things would improve – but then, they could hardly get worse. Yes, the Seahawks ranked 23rd in the NFL in rushing in 2017 – but 440 of their 1,629 yards came from Wilson scrambling for his life on broken-down pass plays. No other team got so little from its running backs – a scant 62 yards per game.

It’s no wonder, then, that the Seahawks went for Rashaad Penny of San Diego State on draft day – with the hope that he’ll deliver in the same vein as Curt Warner and Shaun Alexander, the only other two running backs Seattle has taken in Round 1. There’s also Chris Carson, who showed promise last year – not unlike Thomas Rawls before him, and we know what a cautionary tale he became.

No wonder, either, that offensive line coach Tom Cable was shown the door – Carroll wanting to diversify, apparently, from the zone-heavy blocking schemes – and some actual money invested in guys like Duane Brown and Justin Britt, the best elements of Seattle’s heretofore bargain-basement line.

Will it work? It has to – even if it’s just one yard at a time.

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Offense: Running game or no, the offense is style-hyper-dependent on both the arms and legs of Wilson, though you’d think he’d be content to let Penny or Carson get the hardest yards after being only the second quarterback since 2000 to lead his team in

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll will once again rely on quarterback Russell Wilson to find a way to win games. rushing. Wilson tied his career high with 34 touchdown passes in 2017; he also had his lowest completion percentage (61.3) and lost the most yardage to sacks. So there’s plenty of room for fine-tuning.

The misbegotten experiment that was tight end Jimmy Graham is over, and replacement hire Ed Dickson missed the whole preseason with a non-football injury. That figures to put more of the burden back on wideouts Doug Baldwin and Tyler Lockett – and maybe even Brandon Marshall, trying to resurrect a career.

But none of it goes without major improvement up front. Having Brown full-time at left tackle is a start. Just as big of a key is getting something – or cutting bait – on Germain Ifedi, whose many performance issues forced the Seahawks to throw George Fant into a competition with him at right tackle.

Defense: Look, everybody – it’s the “Legion of Where Did Everyone Go?” Whether due to age, injury or mouths that made management uncomfortable, the defensive core that pried open the Super Bowl window –

Kam Chancellor, Richard Sherman, Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril – all but vanished in the offseason. And safety Earl Thomas is now holding out for his final big contract.

Who’s left? Bobby Wagner, one of the best linebackers in the game, and his running mate K.J. Wright. And really, that’s about it.

Carroll and Co. are plugging some holes with youngsters like Jarran Reed and Rasheem Green up front and Shaquill Griffin and Tedric Thompson on the back end, and hope to get some production from castoffs like Tom Johnson and Barkevious Mingo. The Seahawks’ defense slipped enough in 2017 to show it was aging, but now it looks more like patchwork – though patching things up with Thomas would be a nice Band-Aid. Special teams: The all-business nature of the NFL was laid bare again when the club punted away veteran Jon Ryan, one of the more beloved characters in franchise history.

That’ll give the Seahawks one rookie – Aussie Michael Dickson – and warhorse placekicker Sebastian Janikowski as all-new specialists. Dickson, in particular, could be a spectacular weapon; Janikowski must show he can still boot kickoffs into touchback territory. Lockett’s available for runbacks, though he seemed decidedly less dangerous on punt returns last season, so look for David Moore to get some chances.

CREW Coaching: Pete Carroll finishes his first decade on the job in Seattle in a place not all that different from where he started, other than with a quarterback in his prime. We’ll see if his message is resonating more with his remade roster than it was with the old veterans.

His post-season shakeup wasn’t limited to players. There are new coordinators – Brian Schottenheimer on offense, old protégé Ken Norton Jr. on defense – after Carroll fired eight assistants, including offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell and O-line coach Tom Cable, saying he “just felt it was time.” He got no argument from the fan base.

Spoiler alert Look, nobody wants to even entertain the unthinkable – which is quarterback Russell Wilson going down. That would make grouting the tub a happy Sunday alternative to the tube. So let's focus on the other thing that could turn it into a long season: the schedule.

The Seahawks play just twice at home in the season's first two months. Granted, the road games aren’t exactly murderer's row – Denver, Chicago, Oakland and Detroit in addition to NFC West rival Arizona, a combined 33-47 last year. And no full-out East Coast trips. But it's hardly ideal for a rather thrown-together team trying to get its bearings.

– John Blanchette

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Face it: the Seahawks have been in a downward spiral – not a nosedive – ever since Pete Carroll decided not to give Marshawn Lynch the ball on the 1-yard line in Super Bowl XLIX. Missing the playoffs last year wasn't the crash; that occurred in the off-season when franchise icons Richard Sherman, Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril and Kam Chancellor were either moved out or medically retired – while Earl Thomas launched a bitter holdout. Pete Carroll will try to reset with a roster that mixes a few holdover stars – Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, Doug Baldwin – with what seems like spare parts in too many cases.

They're not prison guards and inmates, exactly – but they're not the Mean Machine, either.

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ALL TIMES PACIFIC (TIMES AND DATES SUBJECT TO CHANGE) AIR FORCE Sep. 1 Stony Brook, 11 a.m.

Sep. 8 at FAU, 11 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Utah St., TBA Sep. 29 Nevada, TBA Oct. 6 Navy, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 12 at San Diego St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 19 at UNLV, 7 p.m.

Oct. 27 Boise St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Army, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 New Mexico, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Wyoming, TBA Nov. 22 Colorado St., 12:30 p.m.

AKRON Sep. 1 at Nebraska, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Morgan St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Northwestern, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Iowa St., TBA Oct. 6 Miami (Ohio), 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Buffalo, TBA Oct. 20 at Kent St., TBA Oct. 27 Cent. Michigan, TBA Nov. 1 N. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Nov. 10 at E. Michigan, TBA Nov. 17 Bowling Green, TBA Nov. 23 at Ohio, TBA ALABAMA Sep. 1 at Louisville, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Arkansas St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Mississippi, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Texas A&M, TBA Sep. 29 Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Oct. 6 at Arkansas, TBA Oct. 13 Missouri, TBA Oct. 20 at Tennessee, TBA Nov. 3 at LSU, TBA Nov. 10 Mississippi St., TBA Nov. 17 The Citadel, TBA Nov. 24 Auburn, TBA ALABAMA ST. Sep. 1 Tuskegee, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Auburn, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Kennesaw St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Grambling St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Alcorn St., Noon Oct. 13 at South Alabama, TBA Oct. 27 Alabama A&M, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 Texas Southern, Noon Nov. 10 Jackson St., Noon Nov. 17 at Prairie View, 11 a.m.

Nov. 22 MVSU, Noon ALBANY (NY) Sep. 1 at Pittsburgh, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Rhode Island, 10 a.m.

Sep. 15 Morgan St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 St. Francis (Pa.), 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at William & Mary, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Richmond, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 Towson, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Maine, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Delaware, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at New Hampshire, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Stony Brook, 12:30 p.m.

APPALACHIAN ST. Sep. 1 at Penn St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Southern Miss., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Gardner-Webb, TBA Sep. 29 South Alabama, TBA Oct. 9 at Arkansas St., 5 p.m.

Oct. 20 Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Oct. 25 at Georgia Southern, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Coastal Carolina, TBA Nov. 10 at Texas St., TBA Nov. 17 Georgia St., TBA Nov. 24 Troy, TBA ARIZONA Sep. 1 BYU, 10:42 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Houston, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 S. Utah, 8 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Oregon St., TBA Sep. 29 Southern Cal, TBA Oct. 6 California, TBA Oct. 12 at Utah, 7 p.m.

Oct. 20 at UCLA, TBA Oct. 27 Oregon, TBA Nov. 2 Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Washington St., TBA Nov. 24 Arizona St., TBA ARIZONA ST. Sep. 1 UTSA, 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Michigan St., 10:42 p.m.

Sep. 15 at San Diego St., 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Washington, TBA Sep. 29 Oregon St., TBA Oct. 6 at Colorado, TBA Oct. 18 Stanford, 6 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Southern Cal, TBA Nov. 3 Utah, TBA Nov. 10 UCLA, TBA Nov. 17 at Oregon, TBA Nov. 24 at Arizona, TBA ARKANSAS Sep. 1 E. Illinois, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Colorado St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 North Texas, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Auburn, TBA Sep. 29 Texas A&M, TBA Oct. 6 Alabama, TBA Oct. 13 Mississippi, TBA Oct. 20 Tulsa, TBA Oct. 27 Vanderbilt, TBA Nov. 10 LSU, TBA Nov. 17 at Mississippi St., TBA Nov. 23 at Missouri, 11:30 a.m.

ARKANSAS ST. Sep. 1 SE Missouri, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Alabama, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Tulsa, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 UNLV, TBA Sep. 29 at Georgia Southern, TBA Oct. 9 Appalachian St., 5 p.m.

Oct. 18 Georgia St., 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Nov. 3 South Alabama, TBA Nov. 10 at Coastal Carolina, TBA Nov. 17 Louisiana-Monroe, TBA Nov. 24 at Texas St., TBA ARMY Aug. 31 at Duke, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Liberty, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Hawaii, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Oklahoma, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Buffalo, TBA Oct. 13 at San Jose St., TBA Oct. 20 Miami (Ohio), 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at E. Michigan, TBA Nov. 3 Air Force, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 Lafayette, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Colgate, 9 a.m.

Dec. 8 at Navy, Noon AUBURN Sep. 1 Washington, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Alabama St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 LSU, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Arkansas, TBA Sep. 29 Southern Miss., TBA Oct. 6 at Mississippi St., TBA Oct. 13 Tennessee, TBA Oct. 20 at Mississippi, TBA Nov. 3 Texas A&M, TBA Nov. 10 at Georgia, TBA Nov. 17 Liberty, TBA Nov. 24 at Alabama, TBA BYU Sep. 1 at Arizona, 10:42 p.m.

Sep. 8 California, 10:12 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Wisconsin, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 McNeese St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Washington, TBA Oct. 5 Utah St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 13 Hawaii, TBA Oct. 27 N. Illinois, TBA Nov. 3 at Boise St., TBA Nov. 10 at UMass, TBA Nov. 17 New Mexico St., TBA Nov. 24 at Utah, TBA BALL ST. Aug. 30 CCSU, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Notre Dame, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Indiana, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 W. Kentucky, TBA Sep. 29 Kent St., TBA Oct. 6 N. Illinois, TBA Oct. 13 at Cent. Michigan, TBA Oct. 20 E. Michigan, Noon Oct. 25 at Ohio, 4 p.m.

Oct. 31 at Toledo, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 13 W. Michigan, 3 p.m.

Nov. 20 at Miami (Ohio), 4 p.m.

BAYLOR Sep. 1 Abilene Christian, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at UTSA, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Duke, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Kansas, TBA Sep. 29 at Oklahoma, TBA Oct. 6 Kansas St., TBA Oct. 13 at Texas, TBA Oct. 25 at West Virginia, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 Oklahoma St., TBA Nov. 10 at Iowa St., TBA Nov. 17 TCU, TBA Nov. 24 at Texas Tech, TBA BETHUNE-COOKMAN Sep. 1 at Tennessee St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Va. Lynchburg, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 at FAU, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Howard, 1:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Savannah St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 MVSU, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at SC State, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 NC A&T, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Morgan St., 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 NC Central, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 Florida A&M, 11 a.m.

BOISE ST. Sep. 1 at Troy, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 UConn, 10:12 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Oklahoma St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Wyoming, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 San Diego St., TBA Oct. 13 at Nevada, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 19 Colorado St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Air Force, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 BYU, TBA Nov. 9 Fresno St., 10:12 p.m.

Nov. 16 at New Mexico, 6 p.m.

Nov. 24 Utah St., TBA BOSTON COLLEGE Sep. 1 UMass, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Sep. 13 at Wake Forest, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Purdue, 9 a.m.

Sep. 29 Temple, TBA Oct. 6 at NC State, TBA Oct. 13 Louisville, TBA Oct. 26 Miami, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Virginia Tech, TBA Nov. 10 Clemson, TBA Nov. 17 at Florida St., TBA Nov. 24 Syracuse, TBA BOWLING GREEN Sep. 1 at Oregon, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Maryland, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 E. Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Miami (Ohio), TBA Sep. 29 at Georgia Tech, TBA Oct. 6 at Toledo, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 W. Michigan, Noon Oct. 20 at Ohio, 11 a.m.

Oct. 30 Kent St., 5 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Cent. Michigan, TBA Nov. 17 at Akron, TBA Nov. 23 Buffalo, TBA BROWN Sep. 14 at Cal Poly, 10:02 p.m.

Sep. 21 Harvard, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Georgetown, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Rhode Island, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Princeton, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Cornell, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Penn, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Yale, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Columbia, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Dartmouth, 10:30 a.m.

BUCKNELL Sep. 1 William & Mary, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Sacred Heart, Noon Sep. 15 at Penn, Noon Sep. 22 at Villanova, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 Colgate, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Monmouth (NJ), 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Lafayette, 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Lehigh, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Georgetown, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 Fordham, 9 a.m.

BUFFALO Sep. 1 Delaware St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Temple, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 E. Michigan, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Rutgers, TBA Sep. 29 Army, TBA Oct. 6 at Cent. Michigan, TBA Oct. 13 Akron, TBA Oct. 20 at Toledo, TBA Oct. 30 Miami (Ohio), 5 p.m.

Nov. 6 Kent St., 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 14 at Ohio, TBA Nov. 23 at Bowling Green, TBA BUTLER Sep. 1 at Youngstown St., 11 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Taylor, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Princeton, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Morehead St., 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Drake, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Valparaiso, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 San Diego, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Dayton, 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Jacksonville, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 Stetson, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Davidson, 10 a.m.

CCSU Aug. 30 at Ball St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 7 Lincoln (Pa.), 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Columbia, 2 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Fordham, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 at Lafayette, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Robert Morris, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Bryant, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Sacred Heart, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Wagner, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 at St. Francis (Pa.), 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Duquesne, 9 a.m.

CAL POLY Sep. 1 at N. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Weber St., 9:02 p.m.

Sep. 14 Brown, 10:02 p.m.

Sep. 22 at E. Washington, 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 29 Montana, 7:02 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Sacramento St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 20 UC Davis, 7:02 p.m.

Oct. 27 at N. Arizona, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Montana St., 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 Idaho St., 7:02 p.m.

Nov. 17 S. Utah, 7:02 p.m.

CALIFORNIA Sep. 1 North Carolina, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 at BYU, 10:12 p.m.

Sep. 15 Idaho St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Oregon, TBA Oct. 6 at Arizona, TBA Oct. 13 UCLA, TBA Oct. 20 at Oregon St., TBA Oct. 27 Washington, TBA Nov. 3 at Washington St., TBA Nov. 10 at Southern Cal, TBA Nov. 17 Stanford, TBA Nov. 24 Colorado, TBA CAMPBELL Aug. 30 Chowan, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Georgetown, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Coastal Carolina, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Shaw, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 North Alabama, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 Wagner, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Monmouth (NJ), 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Gardner-Webb, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Kennesaw St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Presbyterian, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Charleston Southern, 11 a.m.

CENT. ARKANSAS Sep. 1 at Tulsa, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Murray St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at SE Louisiana, 5 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Sam Houston St., TBA Oct. 6 Houston Baptist, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Stephen F. Austin, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 at McNeese St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 Lamar, 4 p.m.

Nov. 10 Incarnate Word, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Abilene Christian, TBA CENT. MICHIGAN Sep. 1 at Kentucky, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Kansas, Noon Sep. 15 at N. Illinois, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Maine, TBA Sep. 29 at Michigan St., TBA Oct. 6 Buffalo, TBA Oct. 13 Ball St., TBA Oct. 20 W. Michigan, Noon Oct. 27 at Akron, TBA Nov. 3 at E. Michigan, TBA Nov. 10 Bowling Green, TBA Nov. 23 at Toledo, TBA CHARLESTON SOUTHERN Sep. 1 at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at The Citadel, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Elon, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Hampton, 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Savannah St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 Va. Lynchburg, 3 p.m.

Oct. 20 Presbyterian, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 Kennesaw St., 3 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Monmouth (NJ), 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Gardner-Webb, Noon Nov. 17 at Campbell, 11 a.m.

CHARLOTTE Sep. 1 Fordham, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Appalachian St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Old Dominion, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at UMass, TBA Sep. 29 at UAB, TBA Oct. 13 W. Kentucky, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Middle Tennessee, Noon Oct. 27 Southern Miss., 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Tennessee, TBA Nov. 10 at Marshall, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 FIU, 11 a.m.

Nov. 24 at FAU, 3 p.m.

CHATTANOOGA Aug. 30 Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at The Citadel, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at UT Martin, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Samford, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at ETSU, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 Wofford, Noon Oct. 13 at W. Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 VMI, Noon Nov. 3 at Furman, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Mercer, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at South Carolina, TBA CINCINNATI Sep. 1 at UCLA, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Miami (Ohio), 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Alabama A&M, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Ohio, TBA Sep. 29 at UConn, TBA Oct. 6 Tulane, TBA Oct. 20 at Temple, TBA Oct. 27 at SMU, TBA Nov. 3 Navy, TBA Nov. 10 South Florida, TBA Nov. 17 at UCF, TBA Nov. 23 East Carolina, TBA CLEMSON Sep. 1 Furman, 9:20 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Texas A&M, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Georgia Southern, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Georgia Tech, TBA Sep. 29 Syracuse, TBA Oct. 6 at Wake Forest, TBA Oct. 20 NC State, TBA Oct. 27 at Florida St., TBA Nov. 3 Louisville, TBA Nov. 10 at Boston College, TBA Nov. 17 Duke, TBA Nov. 24 South Carolina, TBA COASTAL CAROLINA Sep. 1 at South Carolina, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 UAB, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Campbell, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Sep. 29 at Troy, TBA Oct. 13 Louisiana-Monroe, TBA Oct. 20 at UMass, TBA Oct. 27 at Georgia St., TBA Nov. 3 Appalachian St., TBA Nov. 10 Arkansas St., TBA Nov. 17 Georgia Southern, TBA Nov. 23 at South Alabama, TBA COLGATE Sep. 1 Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 at New Hampshire, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Furman, 10 a.m.

Sep. 22 Lafayette, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 at William & Mary, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Bucknell, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 Cornell, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Georgetown, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Fordham, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Lehigh, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Army, 9 a.m.

COLORADO Aug. 31 at Colorado St., 6:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Nebraska, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 New Hampshire, 2 p.m.

Sep. 28 UCLA, 6 p.m.

Oct. 6 Arizona St., TBA Oct. 13 at Southern Cal, TBA Oct. 20 at Washington, TBA Oct. 27 Oregon St., TBA Nov. 2 at Arizona, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Washington St., TBA Nov. 17 Utah, TBA Nov. 24 at California, TBA COLORADO ST. Aug. 25 Hawaii, 4:30 p.m.

Aug. 31 Colorado, 6:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Arkansas, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Florida, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Illinois St., TBA Oct. 6 at San Jose St., 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 New Mexico, TBA Oct. 19 at Boise St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 26 Wyoming, 7 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Nevada, TBA Nov. 17 Utah St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 22 at Air Force, 12:30 p.m.

COLUMBIA Sep. 15 at CCSU, 2 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Georgetown, 11 a.m.

Sep. 28 Princeton, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 Marist, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Penn, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Dartmouth, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 Yale, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Harvard, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Brown, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 Cornell, 10 a.m.

CORNELL Sep. 15 at Delaware, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Yale, Noon Sep. 29 Sacred Heart, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 6 Harvard, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Colgate, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Brown, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Princeton, 10 a.m.

Nov. 2 Penn, 3 p.m.

Nov. 10 Dartmouth, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Columbia, 10 a.m.

DARTMOUTH Sep. 15 Georgetown, 10:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 Penn, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 5 at Yale, 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 Sacred Heart, 3 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Columbia, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 Harvard, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Princeton, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Cornell, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 Brown, 10:30 a.m.

DAVIDSON Sep. 1 Brevard, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Chowan, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Guilford, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Dayton, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 at Valparaiso, 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Morehead St., 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Marist, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Stetson, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at San Diego, 2 p.m.

Nov. 17 Butler, 10 a.m.

DAYTON Sep. 1 Robert Morris, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 at SE Missouri, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Duquesne, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Davidson, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 at Marist, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 Valparaiso, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at San Diego, 2 p.m.

Oct. 20 Drake, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Butler, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 Morehead St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

DELAWARE Aug. 30 Rhode Island, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Lafayette, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Cornell, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at N. Dakota St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Richmond, Noon Oct. 13 Elon, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at New Hampshire, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Towson, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Albany (NY), 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Stony Brook, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Villanova, 9 a.m.

DELAWARE ST. Sep. 1 at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at St. Francis (Pa.), 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at W. Michigan, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Norfolk St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 NC A&T, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Howard, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 at SC State, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 NC Central, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 Savannah St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Morgan St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Va. Lynchburg, 11 a.m.

DRAKE Sep. 1 William Jewell, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Montana, Noon Sep. 15 Missouri S&T, 11 a.m.

Sep. 29 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 Butler, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 Stetson, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Dayton, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Valparaiso, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 San Diego, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 Marist, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Morehead St., 10 a.m.

DUKE Aug. 31 Army, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Northwestern, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Baylor, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 NC Central, TBA Sep. 29 Virginia Tech, TBA Oct. 13 at Georgia Tech, TBA Oct. 20 Virginia, TBA Oct. 27 at Pittsburgh, TBA Nov. 3 at Miami, TBA Nov. 10 North Carolina, TBA Nov. 17 at Clemson, TBA Nov. 24 Wake Forest, TBA DUQUESNE Aug. 25 at UMass, 2:30 p.m.

Sep. 1 Lock Haven, 11 a.m.

Sep. 8 Valparaiso, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Dayton, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Hawaii, 8:59 p.m.

Oct. 6 Bryant, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Robert Morris, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at St. Francis (Pa.), 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Wagner, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 Sacred Heart, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at CCSU, 9 a.m.

E. ILLINOIS Sep. 1 at Arkansas, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Illinois St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Indiana St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Tennessee St., Noon Sep. 29 at Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Murray St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Jacksonville St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 UT Martin, Noon Oct. 27 at E. Kentucky, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Austin Peay, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at SE Missouri, 11 a.m.

E. KENTUCKY Aug. 30 Morehead St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Marshall, 3:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Bowling Green, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 SE Missouri, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 Jacksonville St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at UT Martin, Noon Oct. 20 Murray St., Noon Oct. 27 E. Illinois, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Austin Peay, 2 p.m.

Nov. 10 Robert Morris, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Tennessee Tech, 11:30 a.m.

E. MICHIGAN Aug. 31 Monmouth (NJ), 3:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Purdue, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at San Diego St., 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 N. Illinois, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at W. Michigan, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 Toledo, TBA Oct. 20 at Ball St., Noon Oct. 27 Army, TBA Nov. 3 Cent. Michigan, TBA Nov. 10 Akron, TBA Nov. 23 at Kent St., TBA E. WASHINGTON Sep. 1 Cent. Washington, 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 8 at N. Arizona, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Washington St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 22 Cal Poly, 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Montana St., Noon Oct. 6 S. Utah, 12:02 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Weber St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 Idaho, Noon Nov. 3 at N. Colorado, 11:05 a.m.

Nov. 10 UC Davis, 1:02 p.m.

Nov. 16 at Portland St., 10:02 p.m.

ETSU Sep. 1 Mars Hill, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 at VMI, 10:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 Furman, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Chattanooga, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 Gardner-Webb, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at The Citadel, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Wofford, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 W. Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Mercer, Noon Nov. 17 Samford, 10 a.m.

EAST CAROLINA Sep. 1 NC A&T, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 North Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Virginia Tech, 9:20 a.m.

Sep. 22 at South Florida, TBA Sep. 29 Old Dominion, TBA Oct. 6 at Temple, TBA Oct. 13 Houston, TBA Oct. 20 UCF, TBA Nov. 3 Memphis, TBA Nov. 10 at Tulane, TBA Nov. 17 UConn, TBA Nov. 23 at Cincinnati, TBA ELON Sep. 1 at South Florida, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Furman, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at William & Mary, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Charleston Southern, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 New Hampshire, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 6 at James Madison, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Delaware, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Richmond, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 Rhode Island, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 Towson, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Maine, 9 a.m.

FAU Sep. 1 at Oklahoma, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Air Force, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 Bethune-Cookman, 3 p.m.

Sep. 21 at UCF, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Middle Tennessee, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Old Dominion, 2 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Marshall, 11:30 a.m.

Oct. 26 Louisiana Tech, 3:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at FIU, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 W. Kentucky, 2 p.m.

Nov. 15 at North Texas, 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 Charlotte, 3 p.m.

FIU Sep. 1 Indiana, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Old Dominion, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 UMass, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Miami, TBA Sep. 29 Ark.-Pine Bluff, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Middle Tennessee, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Rice, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at W. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 FAU, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at UTSA, 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Charlotte, 11 a.m.

Nov. 24 Marshall, 9 a.m.

FLORIDA Sep. 1 Charleston Southern, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Colorado St., 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Tennessee, TBA Sep. 29 at Mississippi St., TBA Oct. 6 LSU, TBA Oct. 13 at Vanderbilt, TBA Oct. 27 at Georgia, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 Missouri, TBA Nov. 10 South Carolina, TBA Nov. 17 Idaho, TBA Nov. 24 at Florida St., TBA FLORIDA A&M Sep. 1 Fort Valley St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Troy, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Jackson St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 22 Savannah St., 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 at NC Central, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 Norfolk St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at NC A&T, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Morgan St., 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Howard, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 SC State, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Bethune-Cookman, 11 a.m.

FLORIDA ST. Sep. 3 Virginia Tech, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Samford, 4:20 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Syracuse, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 N. Illinois, TBA Sep. 29 at Louisville, TBA Oct. 6 at Miami, TBA Oct. 20 Wake Forest, TBA Oct. 27 Clemson, TBA Nov. 3 at NC State, TBA Nov. 10 at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 Boston College, TBA Nov. 24 Florida, TBA FORDHAM Sep. 1 at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Richmond, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Stony Brook, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 CCSU, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 Georgetown, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Lehigh, 9:30 a.m.

Oct. 20 Bryant, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Lafayette, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Colgate, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Holy Cross, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Bucknell, 9 a.m.

FRESNO ST. Sep. 1 Idaho, 7 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Minnesota, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at UCLA, 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Toledo, TBA Oct. 6 at Nevada, TBA Oct. 13 Wyoming, TBA Oct. 20 at New Mexico, TBA Oct. 27 Hawaii, TBA Nov. 3 at UNLV, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 9 at Boise St., 10:12 p.m.

Nov. 17 San Diego St., 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 San Jose St., TBA FURMAN Sep. 1 at Clemson, 9:20 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Elon, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Colgate, 10 a.m.

Sep. 22 at ETSU, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 W. Carolina, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 Wofford, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Samford, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at The Citadel, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 Chattanooga, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at VMI, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Mercer, Noon GARDNER-WEBB Sep. 1 Limestone, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at NC A&T, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 W. Carolina, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Appalachian St., TBA Sep. 29 Wofford, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at ETSU, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Kennesaw St., 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Campbell, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 Presbyterian, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Charleston Southern, Noon Nov. 17 Monmouth (NJ), 10:30 a.m.

GEORGETOWN Sep. 1 at Marist, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 Campbell, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Dartmouth, 10:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 Columbia, 11 a.m.

Sep. 29 at Brown, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Fordham, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Lafayette, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Lehigh, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Colgate, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Bucknell, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 Holy Cross, 9:30 a.m.

GEORGIA Sep. 1 Austin Peay, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at South Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Middle Tennessee, 7:12 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Missouri, TBA Sep. 29 Tennessee, TBA Oct. 6 Vanderbilt, TBA Oct. 13 at LSU, TBA Oct. 27 Florida, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Kentucky, TBA Nov. 10 Auburn, TBA Nov. 17 UMass, TBA Nov. 24 Georgia Tech, TBA GEORGIA SOUTHERN Sep. 1 SC State, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 UMass, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Clemson, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Arkansas St., TBA Oct. 6 South Alabama, TBA Oct. 11 at Texas St., 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at New Mexico St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 25 Appalachian St., 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Louisiana-Monroe, Noon Nov. 10 Troy, TBA Nov. 17 at Coastal Carolina, TBA Nov. 24 at Georgia St., TBA GEORGIA ST. Aug. 30 Kennesaw St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at NC State, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 14 at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 W. Michigan, TBA Sep. 29 Louisiana-Monroe, TBA Oct. 4 at Troy, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 18 at Arkansas St., 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Coastal Carolina, TBA Nov. 3 Texas St., TBA Nov. 10 at Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Nov. 17 at Appalachian St., TBA Nov. 24 Georgia Southern, TBA GEORGIA TECH Sep. 1 Alcorn St., 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 8 at South Florida, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Pittsburgh, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 Clemson, TBA Sep. 29 Bowling Green, TBA Oct. 5 at Louisville, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Duke, TBA Oct. 25 at Virginia Tech, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at North Carolina, TBA Nov. 10 Miami, TBA Nov. 17 Virginia, TBA Nov. 24 at Georgia, TBA GRAMBLING ST. Sep. 1 at Louisiana-Lafayette, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Alabama St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Prairie View, 2 p.m.

Oct. 6 Okla. Panhandle St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Texas Southern, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Alcorn St., Noon Oct. 27 Ark.-Pine Bluff, Noon

Nov. 3 MVSU, Noon Nov. 10 at Alabama A&M, 11 a.m.

Nov. 24 at Southern U., 2 p.m.

HAMPTON Sep. 1 Shaw, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Monmouth (NJ), Noon Sep. 15 Tennessee St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at N. Iowa, 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 Charleston Southern, 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 Lane, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Presbyterian, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Va. Lynchburg, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at NY Maritime, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at MVSU, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 St. Andrews, 10 a.m.

HARVARD Sep. 15 San Diego, 9 a.m.

Sep. 21 at Brown, 4 p.m.

Sep. 28 Rhode Island, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Cornell, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 12 Holy Cross, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 Princeton, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Dartmouth, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 Columbia, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Penn, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Yale, 9 a.m.

HAWAII Aug. 25 at Colorado St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 1 Navy, 8 p.m.

Sep. 8 Rice, 8:59 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Army, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Duquesne, 8:59 p.m.

Sep. 29 at San Jose St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Wyoming, 8:59 p.m.

Oct. 13 at BYU, TBA Oct. 20 Nevada, 8:59 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Fresno St., TBA Nov. 3 Utah St., 8:59 p.m.

Nov. 17 UNLV, 8 p.m.

Nov. 24 at San Diego St., TBA HOLY CROSS Sep. 1 at Colgate, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Boston College, 10 a.m.

Sep. 15 Yale, 10 a.m.

Sep. 22 Dartmouth, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 Bucknell, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 at New Hampshire, 10 a.m.

Oct. 12 at Harvard, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 Lehigh, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Lafayette, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 Fordham, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Georgetown, 9:30 a.m.

HOUSTON Sep. 1 at Rice, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Arizona, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Texas Tech, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Texas Southern, 5 p.m.

Oct. 4 Tulsa, 5 p.m.

Oct. 13 at East Carolina, TBA Oct. 20 at Navy, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 South Florida, TBA Nov. 3 at SMU, TBA Nov. 10 Temple, TBA Nov. 15 Tulane, 5 p.m.

Nov. 23 at Memphis, TBA HOUSTON BAPTIST Sep. 1 SW Baptist, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 McNeese St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Abilene Christian, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at SMU, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Cent. Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at SE Louisiana, 2 p.m.

Oct. 20 Stephen F. Austin, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 Nicholls, Noon Nov. 10 at Lamar, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 Sam Houston St., Noon HOWARD Sep. 1 at Ohio, 11 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Kent St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Savannah St., TBA Sep. 22 at Bethune-Cookman, 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at NC Central, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 Delaware St., TBA Oct. 20 at Morgan St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 SC State, TBA Nov. 3 Florida A&M, TBA Nov. 10 at Norfolk St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Bryant, TBA IDAHO Sep. 1 at Fresno St., 7 p.m.

Sep. 8 W. New Mexico, TBA Sep. 22 at UC Davis, 7 p.m.

Sep. 29 Portland St., TBA Oct. 6 at Idaho St., TBA Oct. 13 at Montana St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 S. Utah, TBA Oct. 27 at E. Washington, TBA Nov. 3 North Dakota, TBA Nov. 10 Montana, TBA Nov. 17 at Florida, TBA IDAHO ST. Aug. 31 Western St. (Col.), 8:32 p.m.

Sep. 15 at California, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at North Dakota, 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 N. Arizona, TBA Oct. 6 Idaho, TBA Oct. 13 at UC Davis, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Liberty, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 Montana St., TBA Nov. 3 at Portland St., TBA Nov. 10 at Cal Poly, 7:02 p.m.

Nov. 17 Weber St., TBA ILLINOIS Sep. 1 Kent St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 W. Illinois, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 South Florida, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 21 Penn St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Rutgers, TBA Oct. 13 Purdue, TBA Oct. 20 at Wisconsin, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Maryland, TBA Nov. 3 Minnesota, TBA Nov. 10 at Nebraska, TBA Nov. 17 Iowa, TBA Nov. 24 at Northwestern, TBA ILLINOIS ST. Sep. 1 St. Xavier, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 E. Illinois, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Colorado St., TBA Sep. 29 at Missouri St., Noon Oct. 6 W. Illinois, Noon Oct. 13 S. Illinois, Noon Oct. 20 at N. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 S. Dakota St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at N. Iowa, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Indiana St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Youngstown St., 10 a.m.

INCARNATE WORD Sep. 1 at New Mexico, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at North Texas, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Stephen F. Austin, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Abilene Christian, TBA Oct. 6 SE Louisiana, 2 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Lamar, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 McNeese St., 2 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Nicholls, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 Sam Houston St., Noon Nov. 10 at Cent. Arkansas, 1 p.m.

Nov. 15 North Alabama, 4:30 p.m.

INDIANA Sep. 1 at FIU, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Virginia, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Ball St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Michigan St., TBA Sep. 29 at Rutgers, TBA Oct. 6 at Ohio St., TBA Oct. 13 Iowa, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 Penn St., TBA Oct. 26 at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Nov. 10 Maryland, TBA Nov. 17 at Michigan, TBA Nov. 24 Purdue, TBA INDIANA ST. Aug. 30 Quincy, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Louisville, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at E. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Sep. 27 N. Iowa, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at S. Dakota St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Missouri St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at S. Illinois, Noon Oct. 27 at Youngstown St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 South Dakota, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Illinois St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at W. Illinois, 11 a.m.

IOWA Sep. 1 N. Illinois, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Iowa St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 15 N. Iowa, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Wisconsin, TBA Oct. 6 at Minnesota, TBA Oct. 13 at Indiana, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 Maryland, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Penn St., TBA Nov. 3 at Purdue, TBA Nov. 10 Northwestern, TBA Nov. 17 at Illinois, TBA Nov. 23 Nebraska, 9 a.m.

IOWA ST. Sep. 1 S. Dakota St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Iowa, 2 p.m.

Sep. 15 Oklahoma, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Akron, TBA Sep. 29 at TCU, TBA Oct. 6 at Oklahoma St., TBA Oct. 13 West Virginia, TBA Oct. 27 Texas Tech, TBA Nov. 3 at Kansas, TBA Nov. 10 Baylor, TBA Nov. 17 at Texas, 5 p.m.

Nov. 24 Kansas St., TBA JACKSON ST. Sep. 1 at Southern Miss., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Tennessee St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Florida A&M, 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 Alabama A&M, 2 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 MVSU, Noon Oct. 20 North Alabama, Noon Oct. 27 at Southern U., 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 Prairie View, Noon Nov. 10 at Alabama St., Noon Nov. 17 at Alcorn St., Noon JACKSONVILLE Sep. 1 St. Augustine's, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Mercer, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Walsh, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 Drake, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Davidson, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Marist, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Stetson, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 at San Diego, 2 p.m.

Nov. 3 Butler, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Valparaiso, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 Dayton, 10 a.m.

JACKSONVILLE ST. Aug. 25 NC A&T, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 MVSU, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Austin Peay, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 at E. Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 E. Illinois, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 at SE Missouri, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Murray St., 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 UT Martin, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Tennessee St., Noon Nov. 17 at Kennesaw St., TBA JAMES MADISON Sep. 1 at NC State, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Norfolk St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Robert Morris, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 William & Mary, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Richmond, Noon Oct. 6 Elon, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Villanova, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 Stony Brook, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at New Hampshire, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Rhode Island, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Towson, 11 a.m.

KANSAS Sep. 1 Nicholls, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Cent. Michigan, Noon Sep. 15 Rutgers, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Baylor, TBA Sep. 29 Oklahoma St., TBA Oct. 6 at West Virginia, TBA Oct. 20 at Texas Tech, TBA Oct. 27 TCU, TBA Nov. 3 Iowa St., TBA Nov. 10 at Kansas St., TBA Nov. 17 at Oklahoma, TBA Nov. 23 Texas, 9 a.m.

KANSAS ST. Sep. 1 South Dakota, 4:7 p.m.

Sep. 8 Mississippi St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 UTSA, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 at West Virginia, TBA Sep. 29 Texas, TBA Oct. 6 at Baylor, TBA Oct. 13 Oklahoma St., TBA Oct. 27 at Oklahoma, TBA Nov. 3 at TCU, TBA Nov. 10 Kansas, TBA Nov. 17 Texas Tech, TBA Nov. 24 at Iowa St., TBA KENNESAW ST. Aug. 30 at Georgia St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 6 at Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Alabama St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 22 Clark Atlanta, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Samford, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 Presbyterian, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Gardner-Webb, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Charleston Southern, 3 p.m.

Nov. 3 Campbell, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Monmouth (NJ), 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Jacksonville St., TBA KENT ST. Sep. 1 at Illinois, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Howard, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Penn St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Mississippi, TBA Sep. 29 at Ball St., TBA Oct. 6 Ohio, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Miami (Ohio), TBA Oct. 20 Akron, TBA Oct. 30 at Bowling Green, 5 p.m.

Nov. 6 at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 15 Toledo, 3 p.m.

Nov. 23 E. Michigan, TBA KENTUCKY Sep. 1 Cent. Michigan, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Murray St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Mississippi St., TBA Sep. 29 South Carolina, TBA Oct. 6 at Texas A&M, TBA Oct. 20 Vanderbilt, TBA Oct. 27 at Missouri, TBA Nov. 3 Georgia, TBA Nov. 10 at Tennessee, TBA Nov. 17 Middle Tennessee, TBA Nov. 24 at Louisville, TBA LSU Sep. 2 at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 SE Louisiana, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Auburn, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Louisiana Tech, TBA Sep. 29 Mississippi, TBA Oct. 6 at Florida, TBA Oct. 13 Georgia, TBA Oct. 20 Mississippi St., TBA Nov. 3 Alabama, TBA Nov. 10 at Arkansas, TBA Nov. 17 Rice, TBA Nov. 24 at Texas A&M, TBA LAFAYETTE Sep. 1 at Sacred Heart, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Delaware, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Monmouth (NJ), 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Colgate, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 CCSU, 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 Georgetown, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Bucknell, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Fordham, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Holy Cross, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Army, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Lehigh, 9:30 a.m.

LAMAR Sep. 1 Kentucky Christian, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Texas Tech, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 SE Louisiana, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Nicholls, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 Incarnate Word, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 Sam Houston St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Stephen F. Austin, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Cent. Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Nov. 10 Houston Baptist, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 at McNeese St., 4 p.m.

LEHIGH Sep. 1 St. Francis (Pa.), 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 8 Villanova, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Navy, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Penn, Noon Oct. 6 at Princeton, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Fordham, 9:30 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Georgetown, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Bucknell, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 Colgate, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Lafayette, 9:30 a.m.

LIBERTY Sep. 1 Old Dominion, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Army, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Norfolk St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 North Texas, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at New Mexico, TBA Oct. 6 at New Mexico St., 5 p.m.

Oct. 13 Troy, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 Idaho St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at UMass, TBA Nov. 10 at Virginia, TBA Nov. 17 at Auburn, TBA Nov. 24 New Mexico St., 11 a.m.

LOUISIANA TECH Sep. 1 at South Alabama, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Southern U., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at LSU, TBA Sep. 29 at North Texas, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 UAB, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at UTSA, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 UTEP, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 26 at FAU, 3:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Mississippi St., TBA Nov. 10 Rice, 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Southern Miss., 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 W. Kentucky, 9 a.m.

LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE Sep. 1 Grambling St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Alcorn St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Mississippi St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Coastal Carolina, TBA Sep. 29 at Alabama, TBA Oct. 6 at Texas St., TBA Oct. 13 New Mexico St., TBA Oct. 20 at Appalachian St., TBA Oct. 27 Arkansas St., TBA Nov. 3 at Troy, TBA Nov. 10 Georgia St., TBA Nov. 17 South Alabama, TBA Nov. 24 at Louisiana-Monroe, Noon LOUISIANA-MONROE Aug. 30 SE Louisiana, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Southern Miss., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Texas A&M, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Troy, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Georgia St., TBA Oct. 6 at Mississippi, TBA Oct. 13 at Coastal Carolina, TBA Oct. 20 Texas St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 Georgia Southern, Noon Nov. 10 at South Alabama, TBA Nov. 17 at Arkansas St., TBA Nov. 24 Louisiana-Lafayette, Noon LOUISVILLE Sep. 1 Alabama, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Indiana St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 W. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Virginia, TBA Sep. 29 Florida St., TBA Oct. 5 Georgia Tech, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Boston College, TBA Oct. 27 Wake Forest, TBA Nov. 3 at Clemson, TBA Nov. 9 at Syracuse, 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 NC State, TBA Nov. 24 Kentucky, TBA MVSU Aug. 30 at North Dakota, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Jacksonville St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Alcorn St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Bethune-Cookman, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Jackson St., Noon Oct. 20 Ark.-Pine Bluff, Noon Oct. 27 at Texas Southern, Noon Nov. 3 at Grambling St., Noon Nov. 10 Hampton, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 Alabama A&M, 11 a.m.

Nov. 22 at Alabama St., Noon MAINE Aug. 30 New Hampshire, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at W. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Cent. Michigan, TBA Sep. 29 at Yale, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 Villanova, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Rhode Island, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 at William & Mary, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Albany (NY), 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Towson, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Richmond, Noon Nov. 17 Elon, 9 a.m.

MARIST Sep. 1 Georgetown, 10 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Bryant, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Stetson, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 Dayton, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Columbia, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Davidson, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Morehead St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Valparaiso, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Drake, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 San Diego, 9 a.m.

MARSHALL Sep. 1 at Miami (Ohio), 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 E. Kentucky, 3:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at South Carolina, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 NC State, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at W. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 5 Middle Tennessee, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 FAU, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Southern Miss., Noon Nov. 10 Charlotte, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 UTSA, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 24 at FIU, 9 a.m.

MARYLAND Sep. 1 Texas, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Bowling Green, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Temple, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Minnesota, TBA Oct. 6 at Michigan, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 Rutgers, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Iowa, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Illinois, TBA Nov. 3 Michigan St., TBA Nov. 10 at Indiana, TBA Nov. 17 Ohio St., TBA Nov. 24 at Penn St., TBA MCNEESE ST. Sep. 1 at N. Colorado, 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Houston Baptist, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Nicholls, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at BYU, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Stephen F. Austin, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Abilene Christian, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Incarnate Word, 2 p.m.

Oct. 27 Cent. Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at SE Louisiana, 5 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 Lamar, 4 p.m.

MEMPHIS Sep. 1 Mercer, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Navy, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 14 Georgia St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 South Alabama, 5 p.m.

Sep. 28 at Tulane, 5 p.m.

Oct. 6 UConn, TBA Oct. 13 UCF, TBA Oct. 20 at Missouri, TBA Nov. 3 at East Carolina, TBA Nov. 10 Tulsa, TBA Nov. 16 at SMU, 6 p.m.

Nov. 23 Houston, TBA MERCER Sep. 1 at Memphis, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Jacksonville, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Samford, Noon Sep. 22 The Citadel, 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 at VMI, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Yale, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 W. Carolina, 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Wofford, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 ETSU, Noon Nov. 10 at Chattanooga, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Furman, Noon MIAMI Sep. 2 LSU, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Savannah St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Toledo, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 FIU, TBA Sep. 27 North Carolina, 5 p.m.

Oct. 6 Florida St., TBA Oct. 13 at Virginia, TBA Oct. 26 at Boston College, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 Duke, TBA Nov. 10 at Georgia Tech, TBA Nov. 17 at Virginia Tech, TBA Nov. 24 Pittsburgh, TBA MIAMI (OHIO) Sep. 1 Marshall, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Cincinnati, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Minnesota, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Bowling Green, TBA Sep. 29 W. Michigan, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Akron, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Kent St., TBA Oct. 20 at Army, 9 a.m.

Oct. 30 at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Nov. 7 Ohio, TBA Nov. 14 at N. Illinois, TBA Nov. 20 Ball St., 4 p.m.

MICHIGAN Sep. 1 at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 W. Michigan, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 SMU, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Nebraska, TBA Sep. 29 at Northwestern, TBA Oct. 6 Maryland, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 Wisconsin, TBA Oct. 20 at Michigan St., TBA Nov. 3 Penn St., TBA Nov. 10 at Rutgers, TBA Nov. 17 Indiana, TBA Nov. 24 at Ohio St., 9 a.m.

MICHIGAN ST. Aug. 31 Utah St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Arizona St., 10:42 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Indiana, TBA Sep. 29 Cent. Michigan, TBA Oct. 6 Northwestern, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Penn St., TBA Oct. 20 Michigan, TBA Oct. 27 Purdue, TBA Nov. 3 at Maryland, TBA Nov. 10 Ohio St., TBA Nov. 17 at Nebraska, TBA Nov. 24 Rutgers, TBA MIDDLE TENNESSEE Sep. 1 at Vanderbilt, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 UT Martin, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Georgia, 7:12 p.m.

Sep. 29 FAU, 4 p.m.

Oct. 5 at Marshall, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at FIU, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Charlotte, Noon Oct. 27 at Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 2 W. Kentucky, 5 p.m.

Nov. 10 at UTEP, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Kentucky, TBA Nov. 24 UAB, Noon MINNESOTA Aug. 30 New Mexico St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Fresno St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Miami (Ohio), 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Maryland, TBA Oct. 6 Iowa, TBA Oct. 13 at Ohio St., TBA Oct. 20 at Nebraska, TBA Oct. 26 Indiana, 5 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Illinois, TBA Nov. 10 Purdue, TBA Nov. 17 Northwestern, TBA Nov. 24 at Wisconsin, TBA MISSISSIPPI Sep. 1 at Texas Tech, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 S. Illinois, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 Alabama, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Kent St., TBA Sep. 29 at LSU, TBA Oct. 6 Louisiana-Monroe, TBA Oct. 13 at Arkansas, TBA Oct. 20 Auburn, TBA Nov. 3 South Carolina, TBA Nov. 10 at Texas A&M, TBA Nov. 17 at Vanderbilt, TBA MISSISSIPPI ST. Sep. 1 Stephen F. Austin, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Kansas St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Louisiana-Lafayette, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Kentucky, TBA Sep. 29 Florida, TBA Oct. 6 Auburn, TBA Oct. 20 at LSU, TBA Oct. 27 Texas A&M, TBA Nov. 3 Louisiana Tech, TBA Nov. 10 at Alabama, TBA Nov. 17 Arkansas, TBA Nov. 22 at Mississippi St., 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 22 Mississippi St., 4:30 p.m.

MISSOURI Sep. 1 UT Martin, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 Wyoming, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Purdue, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Georgia, TBA Oct. 6 at South Carolina, TBA Oct. 13 at Alabama, TBA Oct. 20 Memphis, TBA Oct. 27 Kentucky, TBA Nov. 3 at Florida, TBA Nov. 10 Vanderbilt, TBA Nov. 17 at Tennessee, TBA Nov. 23 Arkansas, 11:30 a.m.

MISSOURI ST. Aug. 30 at Oklahoma St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 6 Lincoln (Mo.), 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 N. Arizona, Noon Sep. 29 Illinois St., Noon Oct. 6 at South Dakota, Noon Oct. 13 at Indiana St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 W. Illinois, Noon Oct. 27 S. Illinois, Noon Nov. 3 at S. Dakota St., Noon Nov. 10 N. Dakota St., Noon Nov. 17 at N. Iowa, 2 p.m.

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Aug. 31 at E. Michigan, 3:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Hampton, Noon Sep. 15 at Lafayette, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Princeton, 1:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Wagner, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Bucknell, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Campbell, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Presbyterian, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 Charleston Southern, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Kennesaw St., 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Gardner-Webb, 10:30 a.m.

MONTANA Sep. 1 N. Iowa, 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 Drake, Noon Sep. 15 at W. Illinois, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Sacramento St., Noon Sep. 29 at Cal Poly, 7:02 p.m.

Oct. 6 Portland St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at North Dakota, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 UC Davis, TBA Nov. 3 at S. Utah, TBA Nov. 10 at Idaho, TBA Nov. 17 Montana St., TBA MONTANA ST. Aug. 30 W. Illinois, 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 at S. Dakota St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Wagner, Noon Sep. 22 at Portland St., TBA Sep. 29 E. Washington, Noon Oct. 13 Idaho, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Weber St., TBA Oct. 27 at Idaho St., TBA Nov. 3 Cal Poly, TBA Nov. 10 N. Colorado, TBA Nov. 17 at Montana, TBA MOREHEAD ST. Aug. 30 at E. Kentucky, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Mount St. Joseph, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Austin Peay, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Butler, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 San Diego, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Davidson, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 Valparaiso, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 Marist, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Stetson, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Dayton, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Drake, 10 a.m.

MORGAN ST. Sep. 1 Towson, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Akron, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Albany (NY), 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at NC A&T, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 SC State, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Savannah St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 20 Howard, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Florida A&M, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 Bethune-Cookman, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 Delaware St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Norfolk St., 10 a.m.

MURRAY ST. Aug. 30 S. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Cent. Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Kentucky, 9 a.m.

Sep. 29 UT Martin, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at E. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Tennessee St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at E. Kentucky, Noon Oct. 27 Jacksonville St., 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Tennessee Tech, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 SE Missouri, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Austin Peay, 2 p.m.

N. ARIZONA Sep. 1 at UTEP, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 E. Washington, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Missouri St., Noon Sep. 22 S. Utah, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Idaho St., TBA Oct. 6 Weber St., 2:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at N. Colorado, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 Cal Poly, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at UC Davis, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Sacramento St., 6 p.m.

Nov. 17 North Dakota, 1:30 p.m.

N. COLORADO Sep. 1 McNeese St., 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 8 at South Dakota, Noon Sep. 15 Sacramento St., 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Weber St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 29 North Dakota, 11:05 a.m.

Oct. 6 UC Davis, 11:05 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Portland St., TBA Oct. 20 N. Arizona, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at S. Utah, TBA Nov. 3 E. Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Montana St., TBA N. DAKOTA ST. Sep. 1 Cal Poly, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 North Alabama, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Delaware, 11 a.m.

Sep. 29 S. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at N. Iowa, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 at W. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 Illinois St., 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at South Dakota, Noon Nov. 3 Youngstown St., 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Missouri St., Noon Nov. 17 S. Illinois, 12:30 p.m.

N. ILLINOIS Sep. 1 at Iowa, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Utah, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Cent. Michigan, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Florida St., TBA Sep. 29 at E. Michigan, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Ball St., TBA Oct. 13 Ohio, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at BYU, TBA Nov. 1 at Akron, 4 p.m.

Nov. 7 Toledo, TBA Nov. 14 Miami (Ohio), TBA Nov. 20 at W. Michigan, 4 p.m.

N. IOWA Sep. 1 at Montana, 6 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Iowa, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Hampton, 2 p.m.

Sep. 27 at Indiana St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 N. Dakota St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 at South Dakota, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 S. Dakota St., 2 p.m.

Oct. 27 at W. Illinois, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 Illinois St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Youngstown St., 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Missouri St., 2 p.m.

NC A&T Aug. 25 at Jacksonville St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 1 at East Carolina, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Gardner-Webb, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Morgan St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 SC State, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Delaware St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Florida A&M, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Bethune-Cookman, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 Norfolk St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Savannah St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at NC Central, 11 a.m.

NC CENTRAL Sep. 2 Prairie View, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 St. Augustine's, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at SC State, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Duke, TBA Sep. 29 Florida A&M, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 Howard, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Norfolk St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Delaware St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 Edward Waters, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Bethune-Cookman, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 NC A&T, 11 a.m.

NC STATE Sep. 1 James Madison, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Georgia St., 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 15 West Virginia, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Marshall, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Virginia, TBA Oct. 6 Boston College, TBA Oct. 20 at Clemson, TBA Oct. 27 at Syracuse, TBA Nov. 3 Florida St., TBA Nov. 8 Wake Forest, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Louisville, TBA Nov. 24 at North Carolina, TBA NAVY Sep. 1 at Hawaii, 8 p.m.

Sep. 8 Memphis, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Lehigh, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at SMU, TBA Oct. 6 at Air Force, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Temple, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Houston, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Notre Dame, 5 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Cincinnati, TBA Nov. 10 at UCF, TBA Nov. 17 Tulsa, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 at Tulane, TBA Dec. 8 Army, Noon NEBRASKA Sep. 1 Akron, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Colorado, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Troy, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Michigan, TBA Sep. 29 Purdue, TBA Oct. 6 at Wisconsin, TBA Oct. 13 at Northwestern, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 Minnesota, TBA Nov. 3 at Ohio St., TBA Nov. 10 Illinois, TBA Nov. 17 Michigan St., TBA Nov. 23 at Iowa, 9 a.m.

NEVADA Aug. 31 Portland St., 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Vanderbilt, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Oregon St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Toledo, TBA Sep. 29 at Air Force, TBA Oct. 6 Fresno St., TBA Oct. 13 Boise St., 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Hawaii, 8:59 p.m.

Oct. 27 San Diego St., TBA Nov. 10 Colorado St., TBA Nov. 17 at San Jose St., TBA Nov. 24 at UNLV, 6:30 p.m.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Aug. 30 at Maine, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Colgate, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Colorado, 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Elon, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 6 Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Stony Brook, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Delaware, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Villanova, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 James Madison, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Albany (NY), 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Rhode Island, 9 a.m.

NEW MEXICO Sep. 1 Incarnate Word, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Wisconsin, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at New Mexico St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 29 Liberty, TBA Oct. 6 at UNLV, TBA Oct. 13 at Colorado St., TBA Oct. 20 Fresno St., TBA Oct. 27 at Utah St., TBA Nov. 3 San Diego St., TBA Nov. 10 at Air Force, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 16 Boise St., 6 p.m.

Nov. 24 Wyoming, TBA NEW MEXICO ST. Aug. 25 Wyoming, 5 p.m.

Aug. 30 at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Utah St., TBA Sep. 15 New Mexico, 5 p.m.

Sep. 22 at UTEP, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 Liberty, 5 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Oct. 20 Georgia Southern, 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Texas St., TBA Nov. 3 Alcorn St., 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 at BYU, TBA Nov. 24 at Liberty, 11 a.m.

NICHOLLS Sep. 1 at Kansas, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Tulane, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 at McNeese St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Sam Houston St., 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 Lamar, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Abilene Christian, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Incarnate Word, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Houston Baptist, Noon Nov. 10 Stephen F. Austin, 1 p.m.

Nov. 15 SE Louisiana, 4 p.m.

NORFOLK ST. Sep. 1 Virginia St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 James Madison, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Liberty, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at SC State, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Delaware St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Florida A&M, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 NC Central, 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Savannah St., Noon Nov. 3 at NC A&T, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Howard, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Morgan St., 10 a.m.

NORTH ALABAMA Sep. 1 at S. Utah, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Alabama A&M, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at N. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Azusa Pacific, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Campbell, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 West Florida, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Mississippi College, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Jackson St., Noon Nov. 3 Shorter, 4 p.m.

Nov. 10 North Greenville, 4 p.m.

Nov. 15 at Incarnate Word, 4:30 p.m.

NORTH CAROLINA Sep. 1 at California, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 at East Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 UCF, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Pittsburgh, TBA Sep. 27 at Miami, 5 p.m.

Oct. 13 Virginia Tech, TBA Oct. 20 at Syracuse, TBA Oct. 27 at Virginia, TBA Nov. 3 Georgia Tech, TBA Nov. 10 at Duke, TBA Nov. 17 W. Carolina, TBA Nov. 24 NC State, TBA NORTH DAKOTA Aug. 30 MVSU, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Washington, 2 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Sam Houston St., TBA Sep. 22 Idaho St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 at N. Colorado, 11:05 a.m.

Oct. 13 Montana, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Sacramento St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 27 Weber St., Noon Nov. 3 at Idaho, TBA Nov. 10 Portland St., Noon Nov. 17 at N. Arizona, 1:30 p.m.

NORTH TEXAS Sep. 1 SMU, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Incarnate Word, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Arkansas, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Liberty, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Louisiana Tech, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at UTEP, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Southern Miss., 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at UAB, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Rice, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 15 FAU, 6:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 at UTSA, 4 p.m.

NORTHWESTERN Aug. 30 at Purdue, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Duke, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Akron, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Michigan, TBA Oct. 6 at Michigan St., 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 Nebraska, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Rutgers, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Wisconsin, TBA Nov. 3 Notre Dame, TBA Nov. 10 at Iowa, TBA Nov. 17 at Minnesota, TBA Nov. 24 Illinois, TBA NORTHWESTERN ST. Aug. 30 at Texas A&M, 5:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Grambling St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Lamar, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at SE Louisiana, 5 p.m.

Oct. 6 Nicholls, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Sam Houston St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Cent. Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 Houston Baptist, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Abilene Christian, TBA Nov. 10 McNeese St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 15 at Stephen F. Austin, 4 p.m.

NOTRE DAME Sep. 1 Michigan, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Ball St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Vanderbilt, 11:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Wake Forest, TBA Sep. 29 Stanford, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Virginia Tech, TBA Oct. 13 Pittsburgh, 11:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Navy, 5 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Northwestern, TBA Nov. 10 Florida St., 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Syracuse, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 24 at Southern Cal, TBA OHIO Sep. 1 Howard, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Virginia, Noon Sep. 22 at Cincinnati, TBA Sep. 29 UMass, TBA Oct. 6 at Kent St., 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at N. Illinois, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Bowling Green, 11 a.m.

Oct. 25 Ball St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 1 at W. Michigan, 4 p.m.

Nov. 7 at Miami (Ohio), TBA Nov. 14 Buffalo, TBA Nov. 23 Akron, TBA OHIO ST. Sep. 1 Oregon St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Rutgers, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at TCU, 5 p.m.

Sep. 22 Tulane, TBA Sep. 29 at Penn St., TBA Oct. 6 Indiana, TBA Oct. 13 Minnesota, TBA Oct. 20 at Purdue, TBA Nov. 3 Nebraska, TBA Nov. 10 at Michigan St., TBA Nov. 17 at Maryland, TBA Nov. 24 Michigan, 9 a.m.

OKLAHOMA Sep. 1 FAU, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 UCLA, 10 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Iowa St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Army, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Baylor, TBA Oct. 6 at Texas, TBA Oct. 20 at TCU, TBA Oct. 27 Kansas St., TBA Nov. 3 at Texas Tech, TBA Nov. 10 Oklahoma St., TBA Nov. 17 Kansas, TBA Nov. 23 at West Virginia, 5 p.m.

OKLAHOMA ST. Aug. 30 Missouri St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 South Alabama, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Boise St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Texas Tech, TBA Sep. 29 at Kansas, TBA Oct. 6 Iowa St., TBA Oct. 13 at Kansas St., TBA Oct. 27 Texas, TBA Nov. 3 at Baylor, TBA Nov. 10 at Oklahoma, TBA Nov. 17 West Virginia, TBA Nov. 24 at TCU, TBA OLD DOMINION Sep. 1 at Liberty, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 FIU, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Charlotte, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Virginia Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at East Carolina, TBA Oct. 6 at FAU, 2 p.m.

Oct. 13 Marshall, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at W. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 Middle Tennessee, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 North Texas, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 VMI, 11 a.m.

Nov. 24 at Rice, 10 a.m.

OREGON Sep. 1 Bowling Green, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Portland St., 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 San Jose St., 2 p.m.

Sep. 22 Stanford, TBA Sep. 29 at California, TBA Oct. 13 Washington, TBA Oct. 20 at Washington St., TBA Oct. 27 at Arizona, TBA Nov. 3 UCLA, TBA Nov. 10 at Utah, TBA Nov. 17 Arizona St., TBA Nov. 23 at Oregon St., 1 p.m.

OREGON ST.

Sep. 1 at Ohio St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 S. Utah, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Nevada, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Arizona, TBA Sep. 29 at Arizona St., TBA Oct. 6 Washington St., TBA Oct. 20 California, TBA Oct. 27 at Colorado, TBA Nov. 3 Southern Cal, TBA Nov. 10 at Stanford, TBA Nov. 17 at Washington, TBA Nov. 23 Oregon, 1 p.m.

PENN Sep. 15 Bucknell, Noon Sep. 22 Lehigh, Noon Sep. 29 at Dartmouth, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Sacred Heart, Noon Oct. 13 Columbia, 10 a.m.

Oct. 19 Yale, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Brown, 10 a.m.

Nov. 2 at Cornell, 3 p.m.

Nov. 10 Harvard, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Princeton, 10 a.m.

PENN ST. Sep. 1 Appalachian St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Kent St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 21 at Illinois, 6 p.m.

Sep. 29 Ohio St., TBA Oct. 13 Michigan St., TBA Oct. 20 at Indiana, TBA Oct. 27 Iowa, TBA Nov. 3 at Michigan, TBA Nov. 10 Wisconsin, TBA Nov. 17 at Rutgers, TBA Nov. 24 Maryland, TBA PITTSBURGH Sep. 1 Albany (NY), 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Penn St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Georgia Tech, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 at North Carolina, TBA Sep. 29 at UCF, TBA Oct. 6 Syracuse, TBA Oct. 13 at Notre Dame, 11:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 Duke, TBA Nov. 2 at Virginia, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Virginia Tech, TBA Nov. 17 at Wake Forest, TBA Nov. 24 at Miami, TBA PORTLAND ST. Aug. 31 at Nevada, 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Oregon, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 Coll. of Idaho, TBA Sep. 22 Montana St., TBA Sep. 29 at Idaho, TBA Oct. 6 at Montana, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 N. Colorado, TBA Oct. 27 at Sacramento St., 6 p.m.

Nov. 3 Idaho St., TBA Nov. 10 at North Dakota, Noon Nov. 16 E. Washington, 10:02 p.m.

PRAIRIE VIEW Aug. 25 at Rice, 4 p.m.

Sep. 2 at NC Central, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Sam Houston St., TBA Sep. 15 at UNLV, TBA Sep. 22 at Ark.-Pine Bluff, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Grambling St., 2 p.m.

Oct. 13 Southern U., 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 Alcorn St., Noon Nov. 3 at Jackson St., Noon Nov. 17 Alabama St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 24 Texas Southern, 11 a.m.

PRESBYTERIAN Sep. 8 at Austin Peay, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Stetson, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Bluefield South, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Kennesaw St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 Hampton, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Charleston Southern, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 Monmouth (NJ), 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Gardner-Webb, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 Campbell, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Wofford, 10:30 a.m.

PRINCETON Sep. 15 at Butler, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Monmouth (NJ), 1:30 p.m.

Sep. 28 at Columbia, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 Lehigh, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Brown, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Harvard, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Cornell, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Dartmouth, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Yale, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 Penn, 10 a.m.

PURDUE Aug. 30 Northwestern, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 E. Michigan, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Missouri, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Boston College, 9 a.m.

Sep. 29 at Nebraska, TBA Oct. 13 at Illinois, TBA Oct. 20 Ohio St., TBA Oct. 27 at Michigan St., TBA Nov. 3 Iowa, TBA Nov. 10 at Minnesota, TBA Nov. 17 Wisconsin, TBA Nov. 24 at Indiana, TBA RHODE ISLAND Aug. 30 at Delaware, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Albany (NY), 10 a.m.

Sep. 15 at UConn, 9 a.m.

Sep. 28 at Harvard, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Brown, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Maine, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Stony Brook, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 William & Mary, 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Elon, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 at James Madison, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 New Hampshire, 9 a.m.

RICE Aug. 25 Prairie View, 4 p.m.

Sep. 1 Houston, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Hawaii, 8:59 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Southern Miss., 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Wake Forest, TBA Oct. 6 UTSA, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 UAB, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 at FIU, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at North Texas, 1 p.m.

Nov. 3 UTEP, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 at LSU, TBA Nov. 24 Old Dominion, 10 a.m.

RICHMOND Sep. 1 at Virginia, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Fordham, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 St. Francis (Pa.), 11 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Stony Brook, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 James Madison, Noon Oct. 6 Delaware, Noon Oct. 13 at Albany (NY), 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Elon, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 3 Villanova, Noon Nov. 10 Maine, Noon Nov. 17 at William & Mary, 11 a.m.

ROBERT MORRIS Sep. 1 at Dayton, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 Virginia St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at James Madison, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Bryant, 10 a.m.

Oct. 6 CCSU, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Duquesne, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 Central St. (Ohio), 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 St. Francis (Pa.), 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Sacred Heart, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 at E. Kentucky, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Wagner, 9 a.m.

RUTGERS Sep. 1 Texas St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Ohio St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Kansas, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Buffalo, TBA Sep. 29 Indiana, TBA Oct. 6 Illinois, TBA Oct. 13 at Maryland, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 Northwestern, 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Wisconsin, TBA Nov. 10 Michigan, TBA Nov. 17 Penn St., TBA Nov. 24 at Michigan St., TBA S. DAKOTA ST. Sep. 1 at Iowa St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Montana St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Ark.-Pine Bluff, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at N. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 Indiana St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Youngstown St., Noon Oct. 20 at N. Iowa, 2 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Illinois St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Missouri St., Noon Nov. 10 at S. Illinois, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 South Dakota, Noon S. ILLINOIS Aug. 30 at Murray St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Mississippi, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 SE Missouri, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 South Dakota, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Youngstown St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Illinois St., Noon Oct. 20 Indiana St., Noon Oct. 27 at Missouri St., Noon Nov. 3 W. Illinois, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 S. Dakota St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at N. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

S. UTAH Sep. 1 North Alabama, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Oregon St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Sep. 22 at N. Arizona, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at E. Washington, 12:02 p.m.

Oct. 13 Sacramento St., TBA Oct. 20 at Idaho, TBA Oct. 27 N. Colorado, TBA Nov. 3 Montana, TBA Nov. 10 Weber St., TBA Nov. 17 at Cal Poly, 7:02 p.m.

SC STATE Sep. 1 at Georgia Southern, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at UCF, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 NC Central, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Norfolk St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at NC A&T, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Morgan St., 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Bethune-Cookman, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 Delaware St., 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Howard, TBA Nov. 10 at Florida A&M, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 Savannah St., 10:30 a.m.

SE MISSOURI Sep. 1 at Arkansas St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Dayton, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 at S. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at E. Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Tennessee Tech, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Austin Peay, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 Jacksonville St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 at UT Martin, Noon Nov. 3 Tennessee St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Murray St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 E. Illinois, 11 a.m.

SMU Sep. 1 at North Texas, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 7 TCU, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Michigan, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Navy, TBA Sep. 29 Houston Baptist, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at UCF, TBA Oct. 20 at Tulane, TBA Oct. 27 Cincinnati, TBA Nov. 3 Houston, TBA Nov. 10 at UConn, TBA Nov. 16 Memphis, 6 p.m.

Nov. 24 at Tulsa, TBA SACRAMENTO ST. Sep. 1 St. Francis (Ill.), 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 at San Diego St., 6 p.m.

Sep. 15 at N. Colorado, 1:02 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Montana, Noon Oct. 6 Cal Poly, 6 p.m.

Oct. 13 at S. Utah, TBA Oct. 20 North Dakota, 6 p.m.

Oct. 27 Portland St., 6 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Weber St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 N. Arizona, 6 p.m.

Nov. 17 at UC Davis, 1 p.m.

SAM HOUSTON ST. Sep. 8 Prairie View, TBA Sep. 15 North Dakota, TBA Sep. 22 at Nicholls, 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 Cent. Arkansas, TBA Oct. 6 Stephen F. Austin, 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Lamar, 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 SE Louisiana, TBA Nov. 3 at Incarnate Word, Noon Nov. 10 Abilene Christian, TBA Nov. 17 at Houston Baptist, Noon SAMFORD Aug. 30 Shorter, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Florida St., 4:20 p.m.

Sep. 15 Mercer, Noon Sep. 22 at Chattanooga, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Kennesaw St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 W. Carolina, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 13 VMI, Noon Oct. 20 at Furman, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 Wofford, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at The Citadel, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at ETSU, 10 a.m.

SAN DIEGO Sep. 1 W. New Mexico, 2 p.m.

Sep. 8 at UC Davis, 7 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Harvard, 9 a.m.

Sep. 29 Stetson, 2 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Morehead St., 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 Dayton, 2 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Butler, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 Jacksonville, 2 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Drake, 10:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 Davidson, 2 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Marist, 9 a.m.

SAN DIEGO ST. Aug. 31 at Stanford, 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 Sacramento St., 6 p.m.

Sep. 15 Arizona St., 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 E. Michigan, 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Boise St., TBA Oct. 12 Air Force, 6 p.m.

Oct. 20 San Jose St., 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Nevada, TBA Nov. 3 at New Mexico, TBA Nov. 10 UNLV, TBA Nov. 17 at Fresno St., 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 Hawaii, TBA SAN JOSE ST. Aug. 30 UC Davis, 7 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Washington St., 8 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Oregon, 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 Hawaii, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Colorado St., 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 Army, TBA Oct. 20 at San Diego St., 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 UNLV, TBA Nov. 3 at Wyoming, TBA Nov. 10 at Utah St., TBA Nov. 17 Nevada, TBA Nov. 24 at Fresno St., TBA SAVANNAH ST. Aug. 30 at UAB, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Miami, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Howard, TBA Sep. 22 at Florida A&M, 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 Bethune-Cookman, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 Charleston Southern, 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 Morgan St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 Norfolk St., Noon Nov. 3 at Delaware St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 NC A&T, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at SC State, 10:30 a.m.

SOUTH ALABAMA Sep. 1 Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Oklahoma St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Texas St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Appalachian St., TBA Oct. 6 at Georgia Southern, TBA Oct. 13 Alabama St., TBA Oct. 23 Troy, 5 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Arkansas St., TBA Nov. 10 Louisiana-Monroe, TBA Nov. 17 at Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Nov. 23 Coastal Carolina, TBA SOUTH CAROLINA Sep. 1 Coastal Carolina, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Georgia, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Marshall, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Vanderbilt, TBA Sep. 29 at Kentucky, TBA Oct. 6 Missouri, TBA Oct. 13 Texas A&M, TBA Oct. 27 Tennessee, TBA Nov. 3 at Mississippi, TBA Nov. 10 at Florida, TBA Nov. 17 Chattanooga, TBA Nov. 24 at Clemson, TBA SOUTH DAKOTA Sep. 1 at Kansas St., 4:7 p.m.

Sep. 8 N. Colorado, Noon Sep. 15 at Weber St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 29 at S. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Missouri St., Noon Oct. 13 N. Iowa, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Youngstown St., 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 N. Dakota St., Noon Nov. 3 at Indiana St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 W. Illinois, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at S. Dakota St., Noon SOUTH FLORIDA Sep. 1 Elon, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Georgia Tech, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Illinois, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 East Carolina, TBA Oct. 6 at UMass, TBA Oct. 12 at Tulsa, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 UConn, TBA Oct. 27 at Houston, TBA Nov. 3 Tulane, TBA Nov. 10 at Cincinnati, TBA Nov. 17 at Temple, TBA Nov. 23 UCF, TBA SOUTHERN CAL Sep. 1 UNLV, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Stanford, 5:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Texas, 5 p.m.

Sep. 21 Washington St., 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Arizona, TBA Oct. 13 Colorado, TBA Oct. 20 at Utah, TBA Oct. 27 Arizona St., TBA Nov. 3 at Oregon St., TBA Nov. 10 California, TBA Nov. 17 at UCLA, TBA Nov. 24 Notre Dame, TBA SOUTHERN MISS. Sep. 1 Jackson St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Louisiana-Monroe, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Appalachian St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Rice, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Auburn, TBA Oct. 13 at North Texas, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 UTSA, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Charlotte, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 Marshall, Noon Nov. 10 at UAB, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 Louisiana Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 at UTEP, Noon SOUTHERN U. Sep. 1 at TCU, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Langston, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Alabama A&M, 2 p.m.

Sep. 29 Alcorn St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Prairie View, 3 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Texas Southern, Noon Oct. 27 Jackson St., 4 p.m.

Nov. 10 Ark.-Pine Bluff, 2 p.m.

Nov. 24 Grambling St., 2 p.m.

ST. FRANCIS (PA.) Sep. 1 at Lehigh, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 8 Delaware St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Richmond, 11 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Albany (NY), 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 WV Wesleyan, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Wagner, 9 a.m.

Oct. 20 Duquesne, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Robert Morris, 9 a.m.

Nov. 3 Bryant, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 CCSU, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Sacred Heart, 9 a.m.

STANFORD Aug. 31 San Diego St., 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 Southern Cal, 5:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 UC Davis, 11 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Oregon, TBA Sep. 29 at Notre Dame, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 Utah, TBA Oct. 18 at Arizona St., 6 p.m.

Oct. 27 Washington St., TBA Nov. 3 at Washington, TBA Nov. 10 Oregon St., TBA Nov. 17 at California, TBA Nov. 24 at UCLA, TBA STEPHEN F. AUSTIN Sep. 1 at Mississippi St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Tarleton St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Incarnate Word, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Abilene Christian, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 at McNeese St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Sam Houston St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 13 Cent. Arkansas, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Houston Baptist, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 Lamar, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Nicholls, 1 p.m.

Nov. 15 Northwestern St., 4 p.m.

STETSON Sep. 1 Point (Ga.), 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Waldorf, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Presbyterian, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 Marist, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 at San Diego, 2 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Drake, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 Jacksonville, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Davidson, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Morehead St., 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Butler, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 Valparaiso, 10 a.m.

STONY BROOK Sep. 1 at Air Force, 11 a.m.

Sep. 8 Bryant, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Fordham, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 Richmond, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 Villanova, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Towson, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 at New Hampshire, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Rhode Island, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 at James Madison, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Delaware, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Albany (NY), 12:30 p.m.

SYRACUSE Aug. 31 at W. Michigan, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Wagner, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Florida St., 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 UConn, TBA Sep. 29 at Clemson, TBA Oct. 6 at Pittsburgh, TBA Oct. 20 North Carolina, TBA Oct. 27 NC State, TBA Nov. 3 at Wake Forest, TBA Nov. 9 Louisville, 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 Notre Dame, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 24 at Boston College, TBA TCU Sep. 1 Southern U., 9 a.m.

Sep. 7 at SMU, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Ohio St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Texas, TBA Sep. 29 Iowa St., TBA Oct. 11 Texas Tech, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Oklahoma, TBA Oct. 27 at Kansas, TBA Nov. 3 Kansas St., TBA Nov. 10 at West Virginia, TBA Nov. 17 at Baylor, TBA Nov. 24 Oklahoma St., TBA TEMPLE Sep. 1 Villanova, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Buffalo, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Maryland, 9 a.m.

Sep. 20 Tulsa, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Boston College, TBA Oct. 6 East Carolina, TBA Oct. 13 at Navy, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Cincinnati, TBA Nov. 1 at UCF, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Houston, TBA Nov. 17 South Florida, TBA Nov. 24 at UConn, TBA TENNESSEE Sep. 1 at West Virginia, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 ETSU, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 UTEP, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Florida, TBA Sep. 29 at Georgia, TBA Oct. 13 at Auburn, TBA Oct. 20 Alabama, TBA Oct. 27 at South Carolina, TBA Nov. 3 Charlotte, TBA Nov. 10 Kentucky, TBA Nov. 17 Missouri, TBA Nov. 24 at Vanderbilt, TBA TENNESSEE ST. Sep. 1 Bethune-Cookman, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 Jackson St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Hampton, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at E. Illinois, Noon Sep. 29 at Vanderbilt, TBA Oct. 6 at Austin Peay, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Murray St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 Tennessee Tech, 1:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at SE Missouri, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 Jacksonville St., Noon Nov. 17 UT Martin, Noon TENNESSEE TECH Aug. 30 at Chattanooga, 4 p.m.

Sep. 6 Kennesaw St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 13 at Utah St., TBA Sep. 22 at Jacksonville St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 E. Illinois, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 SE Missouri, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Tennessee St., 1:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Austin Peay, 2 p.m.

Nov. 3 Murray St., 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 10 at UT Martin, Noon Nov. 17 E. Kentucky, 11:30 a.m.

TEXAS Sep. 1 at Maryland, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Tulsa, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Southern Cal, 5 p.m.

Sep. 22 TCU, TBA Sep. 29 at Kansas St., TBA Oct. 6 Oklahoma, TBA Oct. 13 Baylor, TBA Oct. 27 at Oklahoma St., TBA Nov. 3 West Virginia, TBA Nov. 10 at Texas Tech, TBA Nov. 17 Iowa St., 5 p.m.

Nov. 23 at Kansas, 9 a.m.

TEXAS A&M Aug. 30 Northwestern St., 5:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Clemson, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Louisiana-Monroe, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Alabama, TBA Sep. 29 at Arkansas, TBA Oct. 6 Kentucky, TBA Oct. 13 at South Carolina, TBA Oct. 27 at Mississippi St., TBA Nov. 3 at Auburn, TBA Nov. 10 Mississippi, TBA Nov. 17 UAB, TBA Nov. 24 LSU, TBA TEXAS SOUTHERN Sep. 1 Texas-Permian Basin, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Texas St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Alcorn St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Houston, 5 p.m.

Oct. 6 Alabama A&M, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Grambling St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 Southern U., Noon Oct. 27 MVSU, Noon Nov. 3 at Alabama St., Noon Nov. 17 Ark.-Pine Bluff, Noon Nov. 24 at Prairie View, 11 a.m.

TEXAS ST. Sep. 1 at Rutgers, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Texas Southern, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at South Alabama, 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at UTSA, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Oct. 11 Georgia Southern, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Louisiana-Monroe, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 New Mexico St., TBA Nov. 3 at Georgia St., TBA Nov. 10 Appalachian St., TBA Nov. 17 at Troy, TBA Nov. 24 Arkansas St., TBA TEXAS TECH Sep. 1 Mississippi, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 Lamar, 1 p.m.

Sep. 15 Houston, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Oklahoma St., TBA Sep. 29 West Virginia, TBA Oct. 11 at TCU, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Kansas, TBA Oct. 27 at Iowa St., TBA Nov. 3 Oklahoma, TBA Nov. 10 Texas, TBA Nov. 17 at Kansas St., TBA Nov. 24 Baylor, TBA THE CITADEL Sep. 1 at Wofford, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Chattanooga, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Charleston Southern, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Mercer, 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Towson, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 ETSU, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at VMI, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 27 Furman, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at W. Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Samford, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Alabama, TBA TOLEDO Sep. 1 VMI, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Miami, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 Nevada, TBA Sep. 29 at Fresno St., TBA Oct. 6 Bowling Green, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at E. Michigan, TBA Oct. 20 Buffalo, TBA Oct. 25 at W. Michigan, 4 p.m.

Oct. 31 Ball St., 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 7 at N. Illinois, TBA Nov. 15 at Kent St., 3 p.m.

Nov. 23 Cent. Michigan, TBA TOWSON Sep. 1 at Morgan St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Wake Forest, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Villanova, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 The Citadel, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 Stony Brook, 1 p.m.

Oct. 13 William & Mary, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Albany (NY), 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Delaware, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 Maine, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at Elon, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 James Madison, 11 a.m.

TROY

Sep. 1 Boise St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 Florida A&M, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Nebraska, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Louisiana-Monroe, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Coastal Carolina, TBA Oct. 4 Georgia St., 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Liberty, 11 a.m.

Oct. 23 at South Alabama, 5 p.m.

Nov. 3 Louisiana-Lafayette, TBA Nov. 10 at Georgia Southern, TBA Nov. 17 Texas St., TBA Nov. 24 at Appalachian St., TBA TULANE Aug. 30 Wake Forest, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Nicholls, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 at UAB, 10 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Ohio St., TBA Sep. 28 Memphis, 5 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Cincinnati, TBA Oct. 20 SMU, TBA Oct. 27 at Tulsa, TBA Nov. 3 at South Florida, TBA Nov. 10 East Carolina, TBA Nov. 15 at Houston, 5 p.m.

Nov. 24 Navy, TBA TULSA Sep. 1 Cent. Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Texas, 5 p.m.

Sep. 15 Arkansas St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 20 at Temple, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 4 at Houston, 5 p.m.

Oct. 12 South Florida, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Arkansas, TBA Oct. 27 Tulane, TBA Nov. 3 UConn, TBA Nov. 10 at Memphis, TBA Nov. 17 at Navy, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 SMU, TBA UAB Aug. 30 Savannah St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Coastal Carolina, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Tulane, 10 a.m.

Sep. 29 Charlotte, TBA Oct. 6 at Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Rice, 10 a.m.

Oct. 20 North Texas, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at UTEP, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 UTSA, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Southern Miss., 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Texas A&M, TBA Nov. 24 at Middle Tennessee, Noon UC DAVIS Aug. 30 at San Jose St., 7 p.m.

Sep. 8 San Diego, 7 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Stanford, 11 a.m.

Sep. 22 Idaho, 7 p.m.

Oct. 6 at N. Colorado, 11:05 a.m.

Oct. 13 Idaho St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Cal Poly, 7:02 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Montana, TBA Nov. 3 N. Arizona, 1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at E. Washington, 1:02 p.m.

Nov. 17 Sacramento St., 1 p.m.

UCF Aug. 30 at UConn, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 SC State, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at North Carolina, 9 a.m.

Sep. 21 FAU, 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 Pittsburgh, TBA Oct. 6 SMU, TBA Oct. 13 at Memphis, TBA Oct. 20 at East Carolina, TBA Nov. 1 Temple, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Navy, TBA Nov. 17 Cincinnati, TBA Nov. 23 at South Florida, TBA UCLA Sep. 1 Cincinnati, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Oklahoma, 10 a.m.

Sep. 15 Fresno St., 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 28 at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Oct. 6 Washington, TBA Oct. 13 at California, TBA Oct. 20 Arizona, TBA Oct. 26 Utah, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Oregon, TBA Nov. 10 at Arizona St., TBA Nov. 17 Southern Cal, TBA Nov. 24 Stanford, TBA UCONN Aug. 30 UCF, 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Boise St., 10:12 p.m.

Sep. 15 Rhode Island, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Syracuse, TBA Sep. 29 Cincinnati, TBA Oct. 6 at Memphis, TBA Oct. 20 at South Florida, TBA Oct. 27 UMass, TBA Nov. 3 at Tulsa, TBA Nov. 10 SMU, TBA Nov. 17 at East Carolina, TBA Nov. 24 Temple, TBA UMASS Aug. 25 Duquesne, 2:30 p.m.

Sep. 1 at Boston College, 10 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Georgia Southern, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at FIU, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Charlotte, TBA Sep. 29 at Ohio, TBA Oct. 6 South Florida, TBA Oct. 20 Coastal Carolina, TBA Oct. 27 at UConn, TBA Nov. 3 Liberty, TBA Nov. 10 BYU, TBA Nov. 17 at Georgia, TBA UNLV Sep. 1 at Southern Cal, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 UTEP, TBA Sep. 15 Prairie View, TBA Sep. 22 at Arkansas St., TBA Oct. 6 New Mexico, TBA Oct. 13 at Utah St., TBA Oct. 19 Air Force, 7 p.m.

Oct. 27 at San Jose St., TBA Nov. 3 Fresno St., 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 at San Diego St., TBA Nov. 17 at Hawaii, 8 p.m.

Nov. 24 Nevada, 6:30 p.m.

UT MARTIN Sep. 1 at Missouri, 1 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Middle Tennessee, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Chattanooga, 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Austin Peay, Noon Sep. 29 at Murray St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 E. Kentucky, Noon Oct. 20 at E. Illinois, Noon Oct. 27 SE Missouri, Noon Nov. 3 at Jacksonville St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 Tennessee Tech, Noon Nov. 17 at Tennessee St., Noon UTEP Sep. 1 N. Arizona, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at UNLV, TBA Sep. 15 at Tennessee, 9 a.m.

Sep. 22 New Mexico St., 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at UTSA, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 North Texas, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Louisiana Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 UAB, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Rice, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Middle Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Nov. 17 at W. Kentucky, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 Southern Miss., Noon UTSA Sep. 1 at Arizona St., 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Baylor, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Kansas St., 1 p.m.

Sep. 22 Texas St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 29 UTEP, 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Rice, 4 p.m.

Oct. 13 Louisiana Tech, 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Southern Miss., 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at UAB, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 FIU, 4 p.m.

Nov. 17 at Marshall, 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 24 North Texas, 4 p.m.

UTAH Aug. 30 Weber St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at N. Illinois, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Washington, 7 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Washington St., TBA Oct. 6 at Stanford, TBA Oct. 12 Arizona, 7 p.m.

Oct. 20 Southern Cal, TBA Oct. 26 at UCLA, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Arizona St., TBA Nov. 10 Oregon, TBA Nov. 17 at Colorado, TBA Nov. 24 BYU, TBA UTAH ST. Aug. 31 at Michigan St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 8 New Mexico St., TBA Sep. 13 Tennessee Tech, TBA Sep. 22 Air Force, TBA Oct. 5 at BYU, 6 p.m.

Oct. 13 UNLV, TBA Oct. 20 at Wyoming, TBA Oct. 27 New Mexico, TBA Nov. 3 at Hawaii, 8:59 p.m.

Nov. 10 San Jose St., TBA Nov. 17 at Colorado St., TBA Nov. 24 at Boise St., TBA VALPARAISO Sep. 8 at Duquesne, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Youngstown St., 11 a.m.

Sep. 22 Truman St., 11 a.m.

Sep. 29 Davidson, 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Dayton, 10 a.m.

Oct. 13 Butler, 11 a.m.

Oct. 20 at Morehead St., 11 a.m.

Oct. 27 Drake, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at Marist, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Jacksonville, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Stetson, 10 a.m.

VANDERBILT Sep. 1 Middle Tennessee, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Nevada, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 at Notre Dame, 11:30 a.m.

Sep. 22 South Carolina, TBA Sep. 29 Tennessee St., TBA Oct. 6 at Georgia, TBA Oct. 13 Florida, TBA Oct. 20 at Kentucky, TBA Oct. 27 at Arkansas, TBA Nov. 10 at Missouri, TBA Nov. 17 Mississippi, TBA Nov. 24 Tennessee, TBA VILLANOVA Sep. 1 at Temple, 9 a.m.

Sep. 8 at Lehigh, 9:30 a.m.

Sep. 15 Towson, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Bucknell, 3 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Stony Brook, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Maine, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 James Madison, 10 a.m.

Oct. 27 New Hampshire, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Richmond, Noon Nov. 10 William & Mary, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Delaware, 9 a.m.

VIRGINIA Sep. 1 Richmond, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Indiana, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Ohio, Noon Sep. 22 Louisville, TBA Sep. 29 at NC State, TBA Oct. 13 Miami, TBA Oct. 20 at Duke, TBA Oct. 27 North Carolina, TBA Nov. 2 Pittsburgh, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Liberty, TBA Nov. 17 at Georgia Tech, TBA Nov. 23 at Virginia Tech, TBA VIRGINIA TECH Sep. 3 at Florida St., 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 William & Mary, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 East Carolina, 9:20 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Old Dominion, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Duke, TBA Oct. 6 Notre Dame, TBA Oct. 13 at North Carolina, TBA Oct. 25 Georgia Tech, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 Boston College, TBA Nov. 10 at Pittsburgh, TBA Nov. 17 Miami, TBA Nov. 23 Virginia, TBA W. CAROLINA Sep. 1 Newberry, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Gardner-Webb, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 VMI, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 at Furman, 11 a.m.

Oct. 6 at Samford, 10:30 a.m.

Oct. 13 Chattanooga, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Mercer, 1 p.m.

Oct. 27 at ETSU, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 3 The Citadel, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 Wofford, 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 at North Carolina, TBA W. ILLINOIS Aug. 30 at Montana St., 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Illinois, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 Montana, 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 Youngstown St., 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Illinois St., Noon Oct. 13 N. Dakota St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 20 at Missouri St., Noon Oct. 27 N. Iowa, 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at S. Illinois, 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at South Dakota, 11 a.m.

Nov. 17 Indiana St., 11 a.m.

W. KENTUCKY Aug. 31 at Wisconsin, 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 Maine, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Louisville, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Ball St., TBA Sep. 29 Marshall, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Charlotte, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 20 Old Dominion, 4:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 FIU, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 2 at Middle Tennessee, 5 p.m.

Nov. 10 at FAU, 2 p.m.

Nov. 17 UTEP, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 24 at Louisiana Tech, 9 a.m.

W. MICHIGAN Aug. 31 Syracuse, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Michigan, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 Delaware St., 4 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Georgia St., TBA Sep. 29 at Miami (Ohio), 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 6 E. Michigan, 9 a.m.

Oct. 13 at Bowling Green, Noon Oct. 20 at Cent. Michigan, Noon Oct. 25 Toledo, 4 p.m.

Nov. 1 Ohio, 4 p.m.

Nov. 13 at Ball St., 3 p.m.

Nov. 20 N. Illinois, 4 p.m.

WAKE FOREST Aug. 30 at Tulane, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 Towson, 9 a.m.

Sep. 13 Boston College, 4:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Notre Dame, TBA Sep. 29 Rice, TBA Oct. 6 Clemson, TBA Oct. 20 at Florida St., TBA Oct. 27 at Louisville, TBA Nov. 3 Syracuse, TBA Nov. 8 at NC State, 4:30 p.m.

Nov. 17 Pittsburgh, TBA Nov. 24 at Duke, TBA WASHINGTON Sep. 1 at Auburn, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 North Dakota, 2 p.m.

Sep. 15 at Utah, 7 p.m.

Sep. 22 Arizona St., TBA Sep. 29 BYU, TBA Oct. 6 at UCLA, TBA Oct. 13 at Oregon, TBA Oct. 20 Colorado, TBA Oct. 27 at California, TBA Nov. 3 Stanford, TBA Nov. 17 Oregon St., TBA Nov. 23 at Washington St., 5:30 p.m.

WASHINGTON ST. Sep. 1 at Wyoming, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 San Jose St., 8 p.m.

Sep. 15 E. Washington, 5 p.m.

Sep. 21 at Southern Cal, 7:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Utah, TBA Oct. 6 at Oregon St., TBA Oct. 20 Oregon, TBA Oct. 27 at Stanford, TBA Nov. 3 California, TBA Nov. 10 at Colorado, TBA Nov. 17 Arizona, TBA Nov. 23 Washington, 5:30 p.m.

WEBER ST. Aug. 30 at Utah, 5 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Cal Poly, 9:02 p.m.

Sep. 15 South Dakota, 5 p.m.

Sep. 22 N. Colorado, 5 p.m.

Oct. 6 at N. Arizona, 2:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 E. Washington, 3 p.m.

Oct. 20 Montana St., TBA Oct. 27 at North Dakota, Noon Nov. 3 Sacramento St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 10 at S. Utah, TBA Nov. 17 at Idaho St., TBA WEST VIRGINIA Sep. 1 Tennessee, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 Youngstown St., 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 at NC State, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 Kansas St., TBA Sep. 29 at Texas Tech, TBA Oct. 6 Kansas, TBA Oct. 13 at Iowa St., TBA Oct. 25 Baylor, 4 p.m.

Nov. 3 at Texas, TBA Nov. 10 TCU, TBA Nov. 17 at Oklahoma St., TBA Nov. 23 Oklahoma, 5 p.m.

WILLIAM & MARY Sep. 1 at Bucknell, 3 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Virginia Tech, 11 a.m.

Sep. 15 Elon, 3 p.m.

Sep. 22 at James Madison, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 29 Colgate, 3 p.m.

Oct. 6 Albany (NY), 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Towson, 1 p.m.

Oct. 20 Maine, 12:30 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Rhode Island, 9 a.m.

Nov. 10 at Villanova, 10 a.m.

Nov. 17 Richmond, 11 a.m.

WISCONSIN Aug. 31 W. Kentucky, 6 p.m.

Sep. 8 New Mexico, 9 a.m.

Sep. 15 BYU, 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 22 at Iowa, TBA Oct. 6 Nebraska, TBA Oct. 13 at Michigan, TBA Oct. 20 Illinois, 9 a.m.

Oct. 27 at Northwestern, TBA Nov. 3 Rutgers, TBA Nov. 10 at Penn St., TBA Nov. 17 at Purdue, TBA Nov. 24 Minnesota, TBA WYOMING Sep. 1 Washington St., 12:30 p.m.

Sep. 8 at Missouri, 4 p.m.

Sep. 15 Wofford, 1 p.m.

Sep. 29 Boise St., 4 p.m.

Oct. 6 at Hawaii, 8:59 p.m.

Oct. 13 at Fresno St., TBA Oct. 20 Utah St., TBA Oct. 26 at Colorado St., 7 p.m.

Nov. 3 San Jose St., TBA Nov. 17 Air Force, TBA Nov. 24 at New Mexico, TBA YALE Sep. 15 at Holy Cross, 10 a.m.

Sep. 22 at Cornell, Noon Sep. 29 Maine, 10 a.m.

Oct. 5 Dartmouth, 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 Mercer, 10 a.m.

Oct. 19 at Penn, 4 p.m.

Oct. 27 at Columbia, 10 a.m.

Nov. 3 Brown, 10 a.m.

Nov. 10 Princeton, 9:30 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Harvard, 9 a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN ST. Sep. 1 Butler, 11 a.m.

Sep. 8 at West Virginia, 3 p.m.

Sep. 15 Valparaiso, 11 a.m.

Sep. 29 at W. Illinois, 1 p.m.

Oct. 6 S. Illinois, 3 p.m.

Oct. 13 at S. Dakota St., Noon Oct. 20 South Dakota, 3 p.m.

Oct. 27 Indiana St., 11 a.m.

Nov. 3 at N. Dakota St., 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 10 N. Iowa, 9 a.m.

Nov. 17 at Illinois St., 10 a.m.

SPECIAL 28 • THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2018 • THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW

ALL TIMES PACIFIC (X-SUBJECT TO CHANGE) Oct. 21 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 at Oakland, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 4 BYE Baltimore Ravens Nov. 11 Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 9 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 13 at Cincinnati, 5:20 p.m. Nov. 18 Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) (NFLN) Dec. 2 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 Denver, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 at Pittsburgh, 5:20 p.m. Dec. 9 at Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 Dallas, 10 a.m. (FOX) (NBC) Dec. 22 or 23 New York Giants, TBD Oct. 7 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 at Tennessee, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) Jacksonville Jaguars Oct. 21 New Orleans, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 9 at New York Giants, 10 a.m.

Oct. 28 at Carolina, 10 a.m. (CBS) (FOX) Nov. 4 Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 16 New England, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 BYE Sept. 23 Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 18 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 New York Jets, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 25 Oakland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 at Dallas, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 22 or 23 at Los Angeles Charg- Oct. 28 Philadelphia, 6:30 a.m. (London-NFLN) ers, TBD Nov. 4 BYE Dec. 30 Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Buffalo Bills Nov. 18 Pittsburgh, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 9 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 16 Los Angeles Chargers, 10 Nov. 25 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 6 at Tennessee, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ Sept. 30 at Green Bay, 10 a.m. (CBS) NFLN) Dec. 16 Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 22 or 23 at Miami, TBD Oct. 14 at Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Kansas City Chiefs Oct. 29 New England, 5:15 p.m.

Sept. 9 at Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 (ESPN) p.m. (CBS) Nov. 4 Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 at New York Jets, 10 a.m. Sept. 16 at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 San Francisco, 10 a.m. (FOX) (CBS) Oct. 1 at Denver, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Nov. 18 BYE Oct. 7 Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 at New England, 5:20 p.m.

Dec. 2 at Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 New York Jets, 10 a.m. (CBS) (NBC) Oct. 21 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 at New England, 10 a.m. Oct. 28 Denver, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 4 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) (CBS) Nov. 11 Arizona, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 30 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 19 at Los Angeles Rams, 5:15 Cincinnati Bengals Sept. 9 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) p.m. (Mexico City-ESPN) Sept. 13 Baltimore, 5:20 p.m. (NFLN) Nov. 25 BYE Dec. 2 at Oakland, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Carolina, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 13 Los Angeles Chargers, 5:20 Oct. 7 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) p.m. (FOX/NFLN) Oct. 14 Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 23 at Seattle, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 30 Oakland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Los Angles Chargers Nov. 4 BYE Sept. 9 Kansas City, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 New Orleans, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 18 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Los Angeles Rams, 1:05 Nov. 25 Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) p.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 Denver, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 at Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 Sept. 30 San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.

(CBS) p.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 Oakland, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 Oakland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 23 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 Tennessee, 6:30 a.m. (London-CBS) Cleveland Browns Oct. 28 BYE Sept. 9 Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 16 at New Orleans, 10 a.m. Nov. 4 at Seattle, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 at Oakland, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) (FOX) Sept. 20 New York Jets, 5:20 p.m. Nov. 18 Denver, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 Arizona, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) (NFLN) Sept. 30 at Oakland, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 Cincinnati, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 Los Angeles Chargers, 10 a.m. Dec. 13 at Kansas City, 5:20 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN) (CBS) Oct. 21 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 22 or 23 Baltimore, TBD Oct. 28 at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Denver, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Miami Dolphins Nov. 4 Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 9 Tennessee, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 at New York Jets, 10 a.m.

Nov. 18 BYE Nov. 25 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) (CBS) Sept. 23 Oakland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 at Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 at New England, 10 a.m.

Dec. 9 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 15 at Denver, 4:30 or 5:20 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) (NFLN) Oct. 14 Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 25 at Houston, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ Denver Broncos NFLN) Sept. 9 Seattle, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 New York Jets, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 16 Oakland, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 at Green Bay, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 1 Kansas City, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Nov. 18 BYE Oct. 7 at New York Jets, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 Los Angeles Rams, 1:05 p.m. Dec. 2 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 New England, 10 a.m. (CBS) (FOX) Oct. 18 at Arizona, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ Dec. 16 at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 22 or 23 Jacksonville, TBD NFLN) Oct. 28 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) New England Patriots Nov. 4 Houston, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 9 Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 BYE Nov. 18 at Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 Sept. 16 at Jacksonville, 1:25 p.m.

(CBS) p.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 Pittsburgh, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Detroit, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 30 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m. Oct. 4 Indianapolis, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN) (CBS) Dec. 15 Cleveland, 1:30 or 5:20 p.m. Oct. 14 Kansas City, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Oct. 21 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (CBS) (NFLN) Dec. 24 at Oakland, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Oct. 29 at Buffalo, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 30 Los Angeles Chargers, 1:25 Nov. 4 Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Nov. 11 at Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) p.m. (CBS) Nov. 18 BYE Houston Texans Sept. 9 at New England, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 at New York Jets, 10 a.m.

Sept. 16 at Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) (CBS) Sept. 23 New York Giants, 10 a.m. Dec. 2 Minnesota, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 9 at Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) (FOX) Sept. 30 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 at Pittsburgh, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 23 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 Dallas, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 30 New York Jets, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) New York Jets Oct. 21 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 25 Miami, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN) Sept. 10 at Detroit, 7:10 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 16 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 4 at Denver, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 20 at Cleveland, 5:20 p.m.

Nov. 11 BYE Nov. 18 at Washington, 10 a.m. (CBS) (NFLN) Nov. 26 Tennessee, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 30 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Dec. 2 Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 Denver, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 15 at New York Jets, 4:30 or 5:20 Oct. 14 Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) p.m. (NFLN) Dec. 23 at Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 4 at Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Indianapolis Colts Nov. 18 BYE Sept. 9 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 16 at Washington, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 New England, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Philadelphia, 10 a.m. Dec. 2 at Tennessee, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) (FOX) Dec. 15 Houston, 4:30 or 5:20 p.m.

Sept. 30 Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 4 at New England, 5:20 p.m. (NFLN) Dec. 23 Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) (FOX/NFLN) Oct. 14 at New York Jets, 10 a.m. Dec. 30 at New England, 10 a.m.

(CBS) (CBS)

AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Oakland Raiders Sept. 10 Los Angeles Rams, 10:20 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 16 at Denver, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 Cleveland, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 at Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 Seattle (London), 10 a.m.

(FOX) Oct. 21 BYE Oct. 28 Indianapolis, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 1 at San Francisco, 5:20 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN) Nov. 11 Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 at Arizona, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 25 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 Kansas City, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 Pittsburgh, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 16 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 24 Denver, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 30 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS)

Oct. 14 at Miami, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 21 New England, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 New York Jets, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 4 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 22 at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 at New York Giants, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Dec. 9 Los Angeles Rams, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Dec. 16 Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m.

(FOX) Dec. 30 at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX)

Dallas Cowboys

Sept. 9 at Carolina, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 New York Giants, 5:20 p.m.

(NBC) Sept. 23 at Seattle, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 at Houston, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Oct. 14 Jacksonville, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 at Washington, 1:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh Steelers (CBS) Sept. 9 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 BYE Sept. 16 Kansas City, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 24 at Tampa Bay, 5:15 p.m. Nov. 5 Tennessee, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Nov. 11 at Philadelphia, 5:20 p.m.

(ESPN) Sept. 30 Baltimore, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) (NBC) Nov. 18 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 22 Washington, 4:30 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 14 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 29 New Orleans, 5:20 p.m.

Oct. 21 BYE (FOX/NFLN) Oct. 28 Cleveland, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 9 Philadelphia, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 8 Carolina, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ Dec. 16 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) NFLN) Nov. 18 at Jacksonville, 5:20 p.m. Dec. 30 at New York Giants, 10 a.m.

(FOX) (NBC) Nov. 25 at Denver, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Detroit Lions Dec. 2 Los Angeles Chargers, 10 a.m. Sept. 10 New York Jets, 7:10 p.m.

(CBS) (ESPN) Dec. 9 at Oakland, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 16 at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m.

Dec. 16 New England, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) (FOX) Dec. 23 at New Orleans, 1:25 p.m. Sept. 23 New England, 5:20 p.m.

(CBS) (NBC) Dec. 30 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 at Dallas, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Tennessee Titans Oct. 14 BYE Sept. 9 at Miami, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 21 at Miami, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 Seattle, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 18 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 14 Baltimore, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 at Los Angeles Chargers, 6:30 Nov. 22 Chicago, 12:30 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 2 Los Angeles Rams, 10 a.m. a.m. (London-CBS) (FOX) Oct. 28 BYE Dec. 9 at Arizona, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 5 at Dallas, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Nov. 11 New England, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 at Buffalo, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 at Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 23 Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 26 at Houston, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 30 at Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 New York Jets, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay Packers Dec. 6 Jacksonville, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ Sept. 9 Chicago, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) NFLN) Sept. 16 Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 at New York Giants, 10 a.m. Sept. 23 at Washington, 10 a.m.

(CBS) (FOX) Dec. 22 or 23 Washington, TBD Sept. 30 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 at Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) 15 San Francisco, 5:15 p.m.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE Oct. (ESPN) Oct. 21 BYE Arizona Cardinals Sept. 9 Washington, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 28 at Los Angeles Rams, 1:25 Sept. 16 at Los Angeles Rams, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 at New England, 5:20 p.m. p.m. (FOX) (NBC) Sept. 23 Chicago, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 30 Seattle, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m. Nov. 15 at Seattle, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN) (FOX) Oct. 14 at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 25 at Minnesota, 5:20 p.m.

Oct. 18 Denver, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ (NBC) Dec. 2 Arizona, 10 a.m. (FOX) NFLN) Oct. 28 San Francisco, 1:25 p.m. Dec. 9 Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) (FOX) Dec. 23 at New York Jets, 10 a.m.

Nov. 4 BYE Nov. 11 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (FOX) (FOX) Dec. 30 Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 Oakland, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Los Angeles Rams Nov. 25 at Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 Sept. 10 at Oakland, 10:20 a.m. p.m. (FOX) (ESPN) Dec. 2 at Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 Arizona, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 9 Detroit, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 23 Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 Dec. 16 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 Los Angeles Rams, 1:05 p.m. p.m. (CBS) Sept. 27 Minnesota, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ (FOX) NFLN) Dec. 30 at Seattle, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 at Seattle, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Atlanta Falcons Sept. 6 at Philadelphia, 5:20 p.m. Oct. 14 at Denver, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 21 at San Francisco, 5:20 p.m.

(NBC) (NBC) Sept. 16 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 23 New Orleans, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 28 Green Bay, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 at New Orleans, 1:25 p.m.

Sept. 30 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) (FOX) Oct. 7 at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 Seattle, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 14 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 22 New York Giants, 5:15 p.m. Nov. 19 Kansas City, 5:15 p.m. (Mexico City-ESPN) (ESPN) Nov. 25 BYE Oct. 28 BYE Nov. 4 at Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 at Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 9 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 Philadelphia, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Nov. 18 Dallas, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 22 at New Orleans, 5:20 p.m. Dec. 23 at Arizona, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 30 San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.

(NBC) (FOX) Dec. 2 Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Minnesota Vikings Dec. 9 at Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 9 San Francisco, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 Arizona, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 at Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 at Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 30 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 23 Buffalo, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 27 at Los Angeles Rams, 5:20 Carolina Panthers p.m. (FOX/NFLN) Sept. 9 Dallas, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 at Philadelphia, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 14 Arizona, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 23 Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (CBS) Oct. 21 at New York Jets, 10 a.m.

Sept. 30 BYE Oct. 7 New York Giants, 10 a.m. (FOX) (FOX) Oct. 14 at Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 28 New Orleans, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Oct. 21 at Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 BYE Oct. 28 Baltimore, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 18 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 8 at Pittsburgh, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ Nov. 25 Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 2 at New England, 1:25 p.m.

NFLN) (FOX) Nov. 18 at Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 10 at Seattle, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Nov. 25 Seattle, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 Miami, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 23 at Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 9 at Cleveland, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 17 New Orleans, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 30 Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) New Orleans Saints Dec. 23 Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 30 at New Orleans, 10 a.m. Sept. 9 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 Cleveland, 10 a.m. (FOX) (FOX) Sept. 23 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Chicago Bears Sept. 9 at Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 30 at New York Giants, 1:25 p.m.

(CBS) Sept. 17 Seattle, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 23 at Arizona, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 8 Washington, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 30 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 14 BYE Oct. 21 at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 BYE Oct. 28 at Minnesota, 5:20 p.m. (NBC)

Nov. 4 Los Angeles Rams, 1:25 p.m.

(FOX) Nov. 11 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 22 Atlanta, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Nov. 29 at Dallas, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN) Dec. 9 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 17 at Carolina, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 23 Pittsburgh, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX)

New York Giants Sept. 9 Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 at Dallas, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 23 at Houston, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 New Orleans, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 at Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 11 Philadelphia, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN) Oct. 22 at Atlanta, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Oct. 28 Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 BYE Nov. 12 at San Francisco, 5:15 p.m.

(ESPN) Nov. 18 Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 25 at Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 9 at Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 Tennessee, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 22 or 23 at Indianapolis, TBD Dec. 30 Dallas, 10 a.m. (FOX)

Philadelphia Eagles Sept. 6 Atlanta, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Sept. 16 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 23 Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 at Tennessee, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 Minnesota, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 11 at New York Giants, 5:20 p.m.

(FOX/NFLN) Oct. 21 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 28 at Jacksonville, 6:30 a.m.

(London-NFLN) Nov. 4 BYE Nov. 11 Dallas, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Nov. 18 at New Orleans, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 25 New York Giants, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Dec. 3 Washington, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 9 at Dallas, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 at Los Angeles Rams, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 23 Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Dec. 30 at Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX)

San Francisco 49ers Sept. 9 at Minnesota, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 Detroit, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 23 at Kansas City, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 at Los Angeles Chargers, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 7 Arizona, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 15 at Green Bay, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Oct. 21 Los Angeles Rams, 5:20 p.m.

(NBC) Oct. 28 at Arizona, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Nov. 1 Oakland, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN) Nov. 12 New York Giants, 5:15 p.m.

(ESPN) Nov. 18 BYE Nov. 25 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 at Seattle, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 9 Denver, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Dec. 16 Seattle, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 Chicago, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 30 at Los Angeles Rams, 1:25 p.m. (FOX)

Seattle Seahawks Sept. 9 at Denver, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 17 at Chicago, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 23 Dallas, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 at Arizona, 1:05 p.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 Los Angeles Rams, 1:25 p.m.

(FOX) Oct. 14 at Oakland (London), 10 a.m.

(FOX) Oct. 21 BYE Oct. 28 at Detroit, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 Los Angeles Chargers, 1:05 p.m. (CBS) Nov. 11 at Los Angeles Rams, 1:25 p.m.

(CBS) Nov. 15 Green Bay, 5:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN) Nov. 25 at Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 San Francisco, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 10 Minnesota, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Dec. 16 at San Francisco, 1:05 p.m.

(FOX) Dec. 23 Kansas City, 5:20 p.m. (NBC) Dec. 30 Arizona, 1:25 p.m. (FOX)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sept. 9 at New Orleans, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 24 Pittsburgh, 5:15 p.m. (ESPN) Sept. 30 at Chicago, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 7 BYE Oct. 14 at Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 21 Cleveland, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 28 at Cincinnati, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 4 at Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 Washington, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 at New York Giants, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Nov. 25 San Francisco, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 2 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 9 New Orleans, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 16 at Baltimore, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 23 at Dallas, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 30 Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX)

Washington Redskins Sept. 9 at Arizona, 1:25 p.m. (FOX) Sept. 16 Indianapolis, 10 a.m. (CBS) Sept. 23 Green Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Sept. 30 BYE Oct. 8 at New Orleans, 5:15 p.m.

(ESPN) Oct. 14 Carolina, 10 a.m. (FOX) Oct. 21 Dallas, 1:25 p.m. (CBS) Oct. 28 at New York Giants, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Nov. 4 Atlanta, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 11 at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m. (FOX) Nov. 18 Houston, 10 a.m. (CBS) Nov. 22 at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. (FOX) Dec. 3 at Philadelphia, 5:15 p.m.

(ESPN) Dec. 9 New York Giants, 10 a.m.

(FOX) Dec. 16 at Jacksonville, 10 a.m. (FOX) Dec. 22 or 23 at Tennessee, TBD Dec. 30 Philadelphia, 10 a.m. (FOX)