IDAHO STATE football Contact: steve schaack | [email protected] | Cell: 208.406.3570 THIS WEEK Idaho State at Colorado SCHEDULE/RESULTS OVERALL: 1-0 | BIG SKY: 0-0 Sept. 10, 2016 SEPTEMBER Folsom Field 3 Simon Fraser W, 47-3 3:30 p.m. 10 at Colorado 3:30 PM 17 at Oregon State 3:00 PM (MTN) Saturday’s game 24 *Sacramento State 2:35 PM The Idaho State football team plays its first road game of the 2016 season with a 3:30 OCTOBER p.m. kickoff at Colorado. The game will be broadcast regionally on the Pac 12 Network 1 * at Portland State 3:30 PM (MTN) in the state of Colorado. Jerry Miller and Mark Liptak will call the action on the radio at 15 * at NAU 5 p.m. (MTN) 22 * North Dakota 2:35 PM 102.5 KMGI. Fans can follow the game online with audio and live stats by logging onto 29 * SUU 2:35 PM isubengals.com. NOVEMBER 5 * at Montana 5 p.m. About Colorado 12 * at Eastern Washington 4:35 PM (MTN) Colorado is 1-0 and opened the 2016 season with a 44-7 win over Colorado State last 19 * Weber State 2:35 PM week. This is the first meeting between Idaho State and Colorado. Colorado tallied 578 total yards in the win over the Rams (260 rushing and 318 passing). The Colorado Ticket Prices defense held CSU to 225 total yards. Single-game ticket prices for all home games are $18 for adults and $10 for children and seniors. BENGALS AGAINST FBS OPPONENTS Idaho State is 0-24 against FBS schools since beating Utah State 27-24 at USU in 2000. Fans are encouraged to purchase tickets early. Since 2008, the FBS opponents Idaho State has faced are; Air Force, Nebraska, BYU, Single-game tickets on game-day will be $20 for Washington State, Utah State, Georgia, UNLV, Arizona State, Oklahoma, Boise State, the Simon Fraser and $25 for all conference home Washington, Utah and Idaho. ISU plays Colorado and Oregon State this year. games. Notes From Simon Fraser Game Tickets can be purchased by calling 208-282-FANS -Game Captains were Skyler Phillips, Hayden Stout, Jakori Ford and Taison Manu. or by logging onto isubengals.com. - This was Tanner Gueller’s first win as the starting quarterback. - Tanner Gueller threw for a career-high 338 yards and his three touchdowns tied a Season tickets are $84 and ISU faculty and staff career high. His 63-yard touchdown pass to KW Williams was a career-long throw. can purchase tickets for $50. There is a family fun - KW Williams two touchdown receptions tied a career-high. zone for $180. That offer includes four tickets, four - Three receptions by Jakori Ford was a career-high. popcorns and four soda’s for each game. Depth at Running Back Five different running backs had carries against Simon Fraser. Senior Jakori Ford led the attack with 12 for 68 yards and a touchdown. Redshirt freshman Ty Flanagan had eight carries for 38 yards and redshirt sophomore James Madison had five for 38 yards. Fresh- man Michael Dean had five carries for 29 yards and a touchdown. Lonell Woodhouse had two carries. 2015 BIG SKY STANDINGS Big Sky Pct. Overall Home Away Streak Eastern Washington 0-0 .000 1-0 0-0 1-0 L1 Idaho State 0-0 .000 1-0 1-0 0-0 L1 Montana 0-0 .000 1-0 1-0 0-0 L1 Northern Colorado 0-0 .000 1-0 1-0 0-0 W3 Portland State 0-0 .000 1-0 1-0 0-0 L1 Cal Poly 0-0 .000 0-1 1-0 0-1 L3 Montana State 0-0 .000 0-1 0-0 0-1 W2 North Dakota 0-0 .000 0-1 0-0 0-1 W1 Northern Arizona 0-0 .000 0-1 0-0 0-1 L1 Sacramento State 0-0 .000 0-1 0-1 0-0 L1 Southern Utah 0-0 .000 0-1 0-0 0-1 W1 UC Davis 0-0 .000 0-1 0-0 0-1 L5 Weber State 0-0 .000 0-1 0-0 0-1 L3 IDAHO STATE • 2016 BENGAL FOOTBALL 2016 • IDAHO STATE BENGAL FOOTBALL • GAME NOTES MIKE KRAMER FILE Spreading the Ball Around Nine different receivers caught passes against Simon Fraser and nobody had more than Career Record: 94-116 overall Career Big Sky Record: 62-75 six receptions. Hagen Graves caught six balls for 61 yards. Josh Cook had five recep- One of the most successful coaches in Big Sky football tions for 57 yards and Williams had four receptions for 121 yards and two touchdowns. history is now an Idaho State Bengal. Mike Kramer was Jakori Ford, Pat Carter, Mitch Gueller, Ty Flanagan, Michael Dean and Austin Campbell all hired to be the Bengal’s 25th head coach in program caught passes. history on Nov. 22, 2010. Since being given the charge to rebuild the Bengal football program, ISU has made great strides on the field, in the classroom and in the Williams Goes Deep community. KW Williams 63 yards touchdown reception was his second longest reception of his career. His longest was 72 vs. Simon Fraser in 2014. Kramer led the Bengals to their first winning season since 2003 in 2014. Idaho State finished with an 8-4 record and a 6-2 mark in Big Sky Conference play. The of- Welcome to Bengal Football fense rewrote the record books as it finished with 6,744 In the opening win 26 Bengals saw action for the first time at their respective positions. total yards and 64 touchdowns. ISU tallied 2,567 rushing Seeing the field for the first time at their respective positions were, Pat Carter, Dallen yards, breaking a school record that stood since 1957. Collins, Chris Miedema, Nikko Taylor, Lorenzo Terry III, Caleb Brown, Robert Kvinsland, Senior quarterback Justin Arias was a finalist for the Michael Dean, Brandon Monroe, James Madison, Adkin Aguirre, Ty Flanagan, Luke Hollo- Walter Payton Award and he was a third-team All-Ameri- can and first-team all-conference. With the success of the way, Christian Holland, Austin Campbell, Ryan Shields, Braiden Beckman, Mason Jackson, 2014 season, Kramer finished seventh in the voting for Nate Tavernier, Garrett Smith, Jake Hoggan, Jacob Molenaar, Dakota Wilson, Chance the Eddie Robinson Award and he was awarded the Big Salutregui, Clark Jeppesen and Daniel Heck. Sky Conference Coach of the Year. Kramer is the second coach in Division I history to earn conference Coach of Josh Cook Record Watch the Year honors at three different schools in the same league. Josh Cook is 12 yards away from breaking the record for most receiving yards by an ISU tight end. Cook has 108 receptions for 1,259 yards. Josh Hill, who currently plays for New The football program recorded a perfect single-year Orleans in the NFL, finished his career in Pocatello with 143 receptions for 1,270 yards. APR score of 1,000 for the 2011-12 academic year and it reached an all-time high four-year score of 962 following the 2013-14 academic year. In the fall of 2012 and 2013 a Return of Manu and Jenkins record 20 players were named to the Big Sky All-Aca- After suffering preseason season ending injuries in 2015, Mario Jenkins and Taison Manu demic team, breaking the record of 17 that was set by return to the field for the 2016 season. Manu enters his senior year and has been a three- Kramer’s 2011 team. In five of the last six semesters the year starter at strong safety. As a junior in 2014 Manu was third on the team in tackles football program has boasted a 3.0 or higher. with 110 while Jenkins led the defense with 120 tackles as a freshman. Jenkins was also In the fall of 2011, the team had a GPA of 3.04 and named the Big Sky Conference Freshman of the Year. In last weeks season opener Jen- 51 out of the 80 student-athletes had a 3.0 or higher. kins had seven tackles, two for loss and Manu had three tackles. Those numbers were topped in the spring when the football team had a team GPA of 3.16 and had 53 of 79 Gueller Starting Quarterback student-athletes earn a 3.0 or higher. Since Kramer took Tanner Gueller is the starting quarterback for the Bengals in 2016. As a redshirt fresh- over as head coach he has had 58 players graduate as of man in 2015 he started three games and threw for 855 yards and five touchdowns. He December of 2013. was 92-172 with eight interceptions. Redshirt freshman Robert Kvinsland will back up In Kramer’s first three seasons, the Bengal offense has set Gueller. His 338 passing yards in the opener vs. Simon Fraser ranked as the 63rd best numerous Big Sky and Idaho State single-season record. performance in ISU history. The Colton, Wash., native began his coaching career at Ford takes over at RB his prep alma mater as a student teacher and assistant coach in 1976, helping the team to an undefeated Despite the loss of ISU’s all-time leading rusher, Xavier Finney, Jakori Ford is ready to take season and the state B-11 Championship. The next year, over as the starter in 2016. As a junior in 2015 he rushed for 450 yards on 84 carries and Kramer became teacher and assistant football coach scored three touchdowns.