(STATS) – The usual wackiness of the Big Sky football race likely has everybody confident heading into the 2017 season.
The three teams that qualified for the FCS playoffs in 2015 didn’t make the cut last year. The four that earned their way into last season’s tournament, including co-champs Eastern Washington and North Dakota, didn’t make it the year before.
So most teams feel they have the chance for a big season in 2017.
That includes the players named to the preseason all-conference team, released Monday at the 13-team conference’s Big Sky Kickoff media festivities in Park City, Utah.