Montana·Big Sky

2017 — The 2017 Season

Montana'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+ -5.3 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Valpar 45-23 L @ Washin 7-63 W vs Sava Sta 56-3 L vs East Was 41-48 W @ Port Sta 45-33 W @ Idah Sta 39-31 W vs Nort Dak 41-17 L @ Webe Sta 27-41 W vs Nort Ari 17-15 W vs Nort Col 44-14 L @ Mont Sta 23-31
Defining moments
The statement

The 2017 season's largest margin: Montana 56, Savannah State 3. A 53-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Montana 7, Washington 63. A 56-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Griz!"
— Montana fanbase voice · 2017· synthesized
What it meant

2017 is a middle chapter for Montana — 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.