OGDEN For the first time in school history, Weber State is the outright Big Sky champions.
After trailing 15-14 late in the fourth quarter, the Wildcats did what they ve done all season long: battled back to claim a 20-15 victory over the visiting Idaho State Bengals.
Weber State quarterback Bronson Barron finished the day throwing for 258 yards and one touchdown on 15-for-24 passing to lead the Wildcats to an undefeated season and the outright conference title. Proud of the players, the coaches, Weber State head coach Jay Hill said. First outright conference championship in the school s history; it s a big deal. We just set a new record for consecutive wins, home wins. There s so many good things going on and I m just happy where the program is heading still.
OGDEN Just one week into a one-of-a-kind spring football season, Weber State is already making history.
The Wildcats jumped up to No. 2 in the latest STATS FCS Top 25 Monday, two days after a 49-21 rout of Idaho State in the Big Sky season opener, the highest mark in program history.
Weber State, which received four first-place votes, trailed only James Madison (2-0) after a weekend filled with upsets in the top 25. Among the eight teams that lost last week were No. 1 North Dakota State (2-1), which saw its 39-game win streak snapped by Southern Illinois in the worst loss since the Bison joined Division I in 2004, and South Dakota State (1-1), which fell to now-No. 4 North Dakota (2-0).
Weber State football opens season with win at Idaho State - 02/27/21
SALT LAKE CITY Four hundred thirty four. That s the number of days between Saturday and when Weber State last played a football game. But with how the Wildcats played, you would never know.
Freshman quarterback Bronson Barron threw for 312 yards and four touchdowns in the Wildcats largest margin of victory in the Jay Hill era of football. The Wildcats racked up 638 yards of total offense as they beat the Idaho State Bengals 49-21. That was big, Hill said after the victory. Just to get back out and play against someone else other than ourselves, be playing for something again was huge. Man, super happy with the players, the way they responded. We knew we were gonna hit some adversity along the way; it s good to come up here and get a win.