Montana·Big Sky

2018 — The 2018 Season

Montana's 2018 season (6-5) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 6-5
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -6.9 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W vs Nort Iow 26-23 W vs Drake 48-16 L @ West Ill 27-31 W vs Sacr Sta 41-34 W @ Cal Poly 48-28 L vs Port Sta 20-22 L @ Nort Dak 14-41 L vs UC Davis 21-49 W @ Sout Uta 57-14 W @ Idaho 46-27 L vs Mont Sta 25-29
Defining moments
The statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Montana 57, Southern Utah 14. A 43-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: Montana 21, UC Davis 49. A 28-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Griz!"
— Montana fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What it meant

2018 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.