1995 Idaho Vandals football team

Coordinates: 46°43′34″N 117°01′05″W / 46.726°N 117.018°W / 46.726; -117.018

1995 Idaho Vandals football
Conference Big Sky Conference
1995 record 6–5 (4–3 Big Sky)
Head coach Chris Tormey (1st season)
Offensive coordinator George Yarno (1st season)
Defensive coordinator Nick Holt (2nd season)
Home stadium Kibbie Dome
(Capacity: 16,000)
1995 Big Sky football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
#8 Montana $^ 6 –1 –0  13 –2 –0
#17 Idaho ^ 4 –3 –0  6 –5 –0
#21 Boise State 4 –3 –0  7 –4 –0
#22 Northern Arizona 4 –3 –0  7 –4 –0
Weber State 4 –3 –0  6 –5 –0
Idaho State 3 –4 –0  6 –5 –0
Montana State 2 –5 –0  5 –6 –0
Eastern Washington 1 –6 –0  3 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – Division I-AA playoff participant
  • Montana earned automatic berth and
    Idaho earned at-large berth in I-AA playoffs.
Rankings from The Sports Network I-AA poll

The 1995 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by first-year head coach Chris Tormey, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho. Idaho finished the regular season at 6–4 and 4–3 in the Big Sky, their final season in the conference for more than two decades.

Idaho defeated rival Boise State for the thirteenth time in fourteen seasons.[1][2][3][4][5]

Since 1978,[6] the Vandals' football uniforms made prominent use of yellow gold (helmets, pants),[7][8][9] which continued through this season. With the move to up Division I-A in 1996, the shade of gold was changed to metallic.[10]

Division I-AA playoffs

After a slow start, the Vandals defeated the top teams in the conference to make the I-AA playoffs for the fourth consecutive season, and the tenth time in eleven seasons under four head coaches.[11][12][13] For the second straight year, Idaho traveled to Louisiana to play McNeese State in the first round; the Cowboys were top-ranked this year and won again, this time by thirty points.[14][15][16] Conference champion Montana lost to Idaho in the Kibbie Dome in mid-season, then went on to win the national championship; it was the Vandals' first win over the Griz since 1990.

Notable players and coaches

Junior defensive end Ryan Phillips was a four-year starter;[17] he moved to outside linebacker as a senior in 1996,[18][19] and was selected in the third round of the 1997 NFL Draft by the New York Giants. He played five seasons in the NFL, including Super Bowl XXXV in January 2001.

Future Idaho head coach Nick Holt stayed on the staff as defensive coordinator. New head coach Tormey was an alumnus from Spokane who played defense for the Vandals in the mid-1970s, and was the defensive line coach under Dennis Erickson in 1982 and 1983. He had spent the previous eleven seasons at Washington in Seattle under head coaches Don James and Jim Lambright.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site Result Attendance
September 2 1:00 pm at Oregon State (Div. I-A)* No. 14 Parker Stadium • Corvallis, Oregon [20] L    7–14   32,024
September 16 3:05 pm Sonoma State (Div. II)* No. 16 Kibbie Dome • Moscow, Idaho W 66–3   13,519
September 30 11:07 am at No. 24 Idaho State No. 13 Holt Arena • Pocatello, Idaho L  21–26   11,127
October 7 11:05 am at Montana State No. 24 Reno H. Sales Stadium • Bozeman, Montana L  13–16     3,117
October 14 3:05 pm Eastern Washingtondagger Kibbie Dome • Moscow, Idaho W 37–10   14,824
October 21 3:05 pm No. 6 Montana Kibbie Dome • Moscow, Idaho [21] (Little Brown Stein) W 55–43   14,912
October 28 11:05 am at Weber State Wildcat Stadium • Ogden, Utah L  19–25     8,128
November 4 5:05 pm at No. 13 Northern Arizona Walkup Skydome • Flagstaff, Arizona W 17–14   12,371
November 11 4:35 pm at No. 15 Northern Iowa* UNI-Dome • Cedar Falls, Iowa W 16–12   16,324
November 18 3:05 pm No. 16 Boise State No. 25 Kibbie Dome • Moscow, Idaho [1][2][3][4][5] (Rivalry) W 33–13   16,295
November 25 5:00 pm at No. 1 McNeese State* No. 17 Cowboy Stadium • Lake Charles, Louisiana [14][15][16]
(Division I-AA First Round)		 L    3–33   15,736
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from The Sports Network (Div. I-AA) Poll. All times are in Pacific Time.

References

  1. 1 2 Sahlberg, Bert (November 18, 1995). "Playing for pride and..." Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1C.
  2. 1 2 Sullivan, Tim (November 18, 1995). "UI, BSU on recovery road". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington).
  3. 1 2 Sahlberg, Bert (November 19, 1995). "Emphatic enough?". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1C.
  4. 1 2 "Hisaw guides Idaho to win over Broncos". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). Associated Press. November 19, 1995. p. C1.
  5. 1 2 Sullivan, Tim (November 20, 1995). "Vandals bury Boise State". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1C.
  6. ↑ "Sports, classes combine". Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook. 1979. p. 5.
  7. ↑ "Rags to riches". Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook. 1983. p. 182.
  8. ↑ "Caught in the action". Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook. 1992. p. 129.
  9. ↑ "BSU: Beating another dead horse". Gem of the Mountains, University of Idaho yearbook. 1993. p. 100.
  10. ↑ "'96 Vandals will sport new look". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). April 28, 1996. p. 6B.
  11. ↑ Sahlberg, Bert (November 20, 1995). "UI gets invite to I-AA party". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1B.
  12. ↑ Sullivan, Tim (November 20, 1995). "Vandals to meet playoff nemesis". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1C.
  13. ↑ Meehan, Jim (November 20, 1995). "Vandals get shot at No. 1". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. D1.
  14. 1 2 Sahlberg, Bert (November 26, 1995). "Run out of town". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1C.
  15. 1 2 Sahlberg, Bert (November 27, 1995). "Vandals were bait for those Bayou gators". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1B.
  16. 1 2 Sullivan, Tim (November 20, 1995). "MSU ropes Vandals – again". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1C.
  17. ↑ Sullivan, Tim (August 18, 1994). "Vandals boast experience on talented defensive line". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1D.
  18. ↑ Sullivan, Tim (August 28, 1996). "Linebacker life suits Idaho sack-master Phillips". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1B.
  19. ↑ Sahlberg, Bert (April 19, 1997). "Idaho: Phillips' daredevil hobby catches recruiters' eyes". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1B.
  20. ↑ Rodman, Bob (September 3, 1995). "OSU slips up but still beats Idaho". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). p. 1F.
  21. ↑ Sahlberg, Bert (October 22, 1995). "Vandals tan Grizzlies' hide". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). p. 1B.
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