Random Football Facts

[TribeFanInNC]

2. Portland State holds the largest margin of victory in a Division I-AA/FCS football game when it beat Delaware State in 1980, 105-0.

Does a photo exist of the scoreboard after that game? Lacking a third digit, I wonder if the scoreboard actually showed the rare "5-0" final score.

[JALMOND]

Fun Portland State football trivia...

1. Portland State was the first Division I, Non HBCU to hire a minority head coach when Ron Stratten was hired in 1972. Stratten had previously been a defensive coordinator at Oregon. Portland State also was the first Big Sky school to hire a minority head coach in the history of the conference with the hiring of Nigel Burton in 2010.

2. Portland State holds the largest margin of victory in a Division I-AA/FCS football game when it beat Delaware State in 1980, 105-0.

3. In 2007, Weber State beat Portland State in football, 73-68 in Portland. When the two schools met for the first time in basketball following that game, Weber State beat Portland State 73-68 in Ogden.

4. In 2006, Portland State beat FBS New Mexico, 17-6. That same season, New Mexico was invited and won a bowl game and Portland State was eligible for the FCS playoffs but was not selected, the only time since I-AA/FCS began their playoff season in 1978 that this scenario happened.

5. The last time Portland State beat Montana in Missoula, the Vikings were DII. They have never won in Missoula since moving up to the Big Sky conference.

6. Jerry Glanville had a winning record over two Big Sky programs while at Portland State; 3-0 vs Northern Colorado and 2-1 over Eastern Washington. His manta of busting chops with a power running play at the heart of the Montana State defense never came to fruition as he was 0-3 against the Bobcats, giving up 50, 49 and 28 points his three seasons at PSU.

Not true, actually. NAU hired the first minority (head) coach in the Big Sky several years ago, Jerome Souers, who is a Native American (the only Native American head football coach in college football, I believe).

Oops, you are correct.

Northern Arizona is the first Big Sky school to hire a minority head coach. Portland State was the second. Souers is American Indian. Burton is African American.

[SuperHornet]

I guess that's true if you want to play a game of semantics. NAU, then, would be the first school to hire a minority coach WHILE IN THE BIG SKY.

I would hold that PSU is the first current Big Sky school to have hired a minority coach.

But again, that's playing semantics....