Montana defeated the rival Idaho Vandals under the lights on ESPN 2 on September 27. Michael Wortham, Eli Gillman, and Keali'i Ah Yat combined for 5 touchdowns.

Listen... It was a tough year to be a Grizzly fan in the Brawl of the Wild Series. Grizzly Volleyball was the only team to defeat MSU in head-to-head competition, and they did it on their turf.

The Grizzly Softball team reemerged onto the Big Sky scene this year. The Big Sky regular season crown came down to the final weekend in a best-of-3 series against Idaho State. Montana ultimately lost the series, but had an all-time moment by walking off Idaho State in game one. The Griz scored 4 times in the 7th to complete the comeback, capped off by Madison Tarrant's game-winning base knock.

Former Grizzly Patrick O'Connell won Super Bowl LX with the Seattle Seahawks on February 8. It's not every season that a former Grizzly wins a Super Bowl. O'Connell joined Jimmy Farris with the Patriots in '02 and Raul Allegre with the Giants in '87 and '90.

The Grizzlies ran through the state of South Dakota in the FCS Playoffs by beating the brakes off of SDSU 50-29 and USD 52-22. We don't know what happened next week...

Whitefish native Erin Wilde captured her 7th consecutive Big Sky Championship in the women's high jump on May 15. Wilde became one of four Big Sky athletes to win the same event at least 7 times.

Grizzly Soccer finally got back to the NCAA Tournament after an epic shootout victory over Weber State in the Big Sky Championship on November 9 at South Campus Stadium. A record crowd of over 2,200 people showed up to see Montana win in a shootout. A shootout that saw Grizzly Goalkeeper Ashlyn Dvorak score and Chloe Seelhoff, who shot with a broken arm.