Weber State University Game Day Thread: WSU v. EWU - Updated

We think it's fair to speculate that winless defending national champion EWU will be taking the field this afternoon with serious blood in their eyes

The WSU Wildcats are back on the road for the second straight week, where they'll be butting heads this afternoon with Big Sky Conference rival Eastern Washington University at Cheney, Washington's ghastly red-turfed Roos Field, at 1:30 p.m. (MT). Yikes!:

Roos Field, Cheney, WA

In addition to the league rivalry, EWU is also the FCS defending national champion, although they've suffered some hard times this year, coming into today's game with a winless 0-4 record. Since another EWU loss would mathematically eliminate EWU from the 2011 playoffs, we think it's fair to speculate that they'll be taking the field this afternoon with blood in their eyes, hoping to put a dent in the Wildcats' perfect 2-0 conference record (and to keep their own playoff hopes alive.)

Just to set the stage with a little pre-game hype, WSU fans can sink their teeth into this week's two Standard-Examiner stories:

• Wildcats hope to bleed purple all over EWU's red turf
• Wildcats not overlooking defending champs

And here's a pretty decent pre-game setup from EWU's "home town" newspaper, the Spokane Spokesman-Review:

• Weber State figures to run against EWU

Once again it looks like there'll be no online streaming video this week, but here's the KZNS internet audio feed:

• KZNS (1280 The Zone) Live Broadcast

According to this morning's Standard-Examiner, live game video will be broadcast on the Altitude network (ALT), which is channel 61 on Comcast Cable and channel 410 on the Dish Network.

We'll keep the lower comments section open, of course, for WSU football fans who'd like to chime in before, during or after the game.

Go Wildcats!

Update 10/1/11 6:19 p.m.: Final score: EWU over WSU, 27-21.

Update 10/2/11 7:30 a.m.: The Standard has the post-game story:

• Wildcats fumble chances at EWU

WSU's not the only school, by the way, to have been handed their hat by a team from the State of Washington. This morning's Standard also carries the story yesterday's Utah v. Washington debacle, where the U of W cruised to an easy 31-14 victory over the locally vaunted U of U, due to an ugly series of University of Utah miscues (five turnovers). The headline says it all:

• Stinky start for Utes

Plenty of humble pie to go all around this morning, we guess.