Big Sky Conference

The Big Sky Conference (or BSC) is an intercollegiate college athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division I, with football competing at the Division I-AA level. The BSC was founded in 1963. Member institutions are located in the western United States in the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.

Institution	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Year Joined
Eastern Washington University	Cheney, Washington	1882	Public	9,232	1987
Idaho State University	Pocatello, Idaho	1901	Public	13,802	1963
University of Montana	Missoula, Montana	1893	Public	13,352	1963
Montana State University - Bozeman	Bozeman, Montana	1893	Public	12,250	1963
Northern Arizona University	Flagstaff, Arizona	1899	Public	18,824	1970
University of Northern Colorado	Greeley, Colorado	1889	Public	10,047	2006
Portland State University	Portland, Oregon	1946	Public	21,030	1996
California State University, Sacramento	Sacramento, California	1947	Public	27,972	1996
Weber State University	Ogden, Utah	1889	Public	18,059	1963

The University of Northern Colorado officially joined the Big Sky Conference on July 1, 2006, and will begin athletic competition in August of 2006.

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School	Football stadium	Stadium capacity	Basketball arena	Arena capacity
E. Washington	Woodward Field (primary) Joe Albi Stadium (secondary)	8,600 28,646	Reese Court	6,000
Idaho State	Holt Arena	12,000	Reed Gym	3,040
Montana	Washington Grizzly Stadium	23,117	Dahlberg Arena	7,500
Montana State	Bobcat Stadium	15,000	Worthington Arena	6,378
Northrn Arizona	Walkup Skydome	16,230	Walkup Skydome	9,500
Northern Colorado	Nottingham Field	8,500	Butler-Hancock Sports Pavilion	4,500
Portland State	PGE Park	20,000	Stott Center	1,500
Sacramento State	Hornet Stadium	26,000	Hornets Nest	1,200
Weber State	Stewart Stadium	17,312	Dee Events Center	11,592

With Conference schools

- Eastern Washington and Montana have engaged an annual rivalry, Montana currently leads the series which has produced some classic games, but has recently begun to resurge partly due to the rise of EWU football program. EWU, Montana and Montana State also get involved in an annual rivalry game when either of the two schools play at Eastern. The game is Called the Governors Cup, and usually a friendly wager is given between the Governors of Montana and Washington.

- Montana and Montana State compete in an intense intrastate rivalry, there really is not a name given for this rivalry but when the two schools were featured in the 2004 edition of NCAA Football, EA Sports dubbed the game "The Brawl of the Wild."

- Montana and Idaho have an intense inter-state rivalry that dates back to 1903. The teams played each other every year from 1914 - 1995 (with the exception of 1918, 1943 and 1944 when the schools did not field teams due to the war). The schools were conference mates from 1924 - 1949 in the Pacific Coast Conference (Now Pac-10 Conference), and from 1963 - 1995 in the Big Sky conference. Overall the teams have played each other 84 times, with Idaho leading the series 55-27-2. Each team has only played 1 other team more times (Idaho has played Washington State 89 times, Montana has played Montana State University 105 times as of 2005). The teams have only played 5 times since Idaho left the Big Sky conference after 1995 to move to I-A, with Montana winning the last 4, most recently in 2003. The winner of the game gets the "Little Brown Stein", which Montana will keep unless/until Idaho is able to win the game. The teams are currently not scheduled to renew the rivalry due to Idaho being in I-A and Montana in I-AA, and Idaho not being able/willing to pay a large enough guarantee for a home game against Montana, and is not willing to play a road game at Montana.

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