Montana Grizzlies Football

The Missouri State Bears represent a formidable foe out of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, which is set to move up to the FBS level next year.

For a second-straight year the Montana Grizzlies have set a new football season ticket record at Washington-Grizzly Stadium, with 18,816 packages sold and distributed as of Friday, Aug. 23, still a week away from kickoff.

Last year's starter, Clifton McDowell, transferred after the University of Montana Grizzlies lost in the national championship.

Montana and Montana State will begin the 2024 football season ranked third and fourth, respectively, in the preseason Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll, which was announced Monday.

The reigning Big Sky Conference champions enter this season as the preseason pick to win the conference again after making their run to Frisco, Texas, and the FCS national championship game last fall.

Prognosticators also picked the Brawl of the Wild to once again determine the conference champion, with Montana State coming in second in both polls.

Montana was picked by the league’s coaches and media to repeat as Big Sky champions in 2024, coming in first in both preseason polls.

The final product for the Grizzly Indoor Practice Facility on the campus for the University of Montana is nearly complete.

The Montana Grizzlies set new records for both season ticket sales and single game attendance at Washington-Grizzly Stadium in 2023, and they’re on track to do it again in ‘24.

Last week, the NCAA approved a nearly $3 billion settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that has been filed against the governing body of roughly 500,000 collegiate student-athletes across the country.