Weekly Honor for Another Montana Grizzly Football Standout

You lead your team to 52 points when you needed them all sounds worthy of the honor to us.

University of Montana Football Sports Information Director Eric Taber tells us that in his first start as a Grizzly, quarterback Logan Fife caught fire on the red-turf "Inferno" at Eastern Washington, and led the Grizzlies to 701 yards of total offense – the second-most in program history – and a 52-49 road win. That performance has earned him Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Week, announced today (Monday) by the league office.

In that near-record total, Logan threw for 364 yards and five touchdowns and added 22 more on the ground for a personal haul of 386 – the most yards of any player in the Big Sky Conference so far this season.  309 of those passing yards came in the first half alone.

The redshirt junior transfer from Fresno State earned the second-straight Big Sky weekly offensive honor for UM. Griz running back Eli Gillman won it last Monday following his 124-yard rushing day against Western Carolina.

Playing the entire game in the absence of freshman quarterback Keali'i Ah Yat, who started the first four games of the season but was held out Saturday, Fife completed 30 of his 42 passing attempts and finished with those five touchdown passes and zero interceptions. We're not too savvy with the Quarterback Rating Formula that helps measure performance, but we are sure that a QB rating of 183.5 is pretty decent.

The Football Championship Subdivision 8th-ranked Griz improved to 4-1 on the season and 1-0 in Big Sky Conference play. The next opponent for Montana is Weber State, 1:00 pm this Saturday, October 5, in the raucous home-field confines of Washington-Grizzly Stadium.

We are on the air at 11:00 with the two-hour pregame show live from the Grizzly Scholarship Association tailgate area. We hope you will stop by and give us a listen, as well as get a full day of Griz football radio coverage on KGVO, FM 98.3 / AM 1290, and on the KGVO app.