Eastern Washington·Big Sky

2017 — The 2017 Season

Eastern Washington's 2017 season (7-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 7-4
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -3.7 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
L @ Texa Tec 10-56 L vs Nort Sta 13-40 W @ Fordham 56-21 W @ Montana 48-41 W vs Sacr Sta 52-31 W @ UC Davis 41-38 W vs Mont Sta 31-19 L @ Sout Uta 28-46 L vs Webe Sta 20-28 W @ Nort Dak 21-14 W vs Port Sta 59-33
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Eastern Washington 56, Fordham 21. A 35-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Eastern Washington 10, Texas Tech 56. A 46-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Eagles"
— Eastern Washington fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Eastern Washington — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.