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Conference Champions

Conference Champions
 
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1952 Rocky Mountain Conference Champions
The 1952 squad was ISC’s first undefeated, untied team, as well as the school’s first conference champion. The Bengals outscored their eight opponents 233-85, and they clinched their perfect conference season with a 35-12 win over Montana State.  One week later the Bengals nipped Lewis and Clark 21-18 for a perfect season.  A note to the season; in ISC’s 17-6 win over Colorado College, defensive back Carl Williams kicked the school’s first-ever field goal from a placekick.  Previously ISU had dropkicked all of their field goals.
 
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1953 Rocky Mountain Conference Champions
The 1953 Bengals went 6-2 but were perfect in the conference in becoming ISU’s only repeat conference champion.  The Bengals saw their winning streak end at eight in the season opener when Eastern Washington nipped the Bengals 14-6.  ISC then won three games by a total of 19 points over Colorado College 27-20, Colorado Mines 30-21, and Colorado State 10-7.  The Bengals then suffered a loss to the College of Idaho before taking out Montana State and Western State, giving ISU a perfect 5-0 conference mark, despite winning all five games by an average of less than eight points.
 
 
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1955 Rocky Mountain Conference Champions
The 1955 Bengals go down as possibly the best defensive team in school history.  The Bengals won three of their first four games by shutout, and later added a fourth shutout.  Only a final game loss to Omaha prevented a perfect season, still the Bengal defense allowed 70 points for the season, just 7.8 points per game.
 
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 Rocky Mountain Conference Champions
The 1957 squad was ISC’s second-ever undefeated, untied team, going a perfect 9-0 en route to their fourth conference championship.  The Bengals scored at least 22 points in all but one game, and allowed more than 13 just once.  ISC’s only close call was in game seven, a tense 7-6 win over Northern Colorado.  ISC ended the season with a 34-21 win over the College of Idaho.
 
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1959 Rocky Mountain Conference Champions
The 1959 squad went the difficult route to a conference championship, winning their final six games after dropping the first two of the season.  After losing 16-7 to Northern Arizona and 14-8 to Hawai’i on Statehood Day, the Bengals rebounded with a 32-7 win over Western State.  Back-to-back shutouts followed over Omaha (33-0) and Montana State (6-0 on Homecoming).  The Bengals then took out Colorado College 14-8 and the College of Idaho 28-21 setting up a final end of season showdown for the title with Northern Colorado, which ISC won 32-13, clinching championship #5.
 
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1963 Big Sky Conference Champions
Despite a 5-3 overall record, ISU won the first-ever Big Sky title with some late heroics against arch-rival Weber State.  ISU won their opener over Nevada 36-19 before dropping a road game at Omaha 19-6.  The Bengals won three straight, over Northern Arizona 13-2, Montana 14-13, and Montana State 19-15 before losing to Drake 15-12.  ISU then trailed Weber State 26-8 before scoring 28 straight points, including 20 in the fourth quarter to clinch the title, despite a loss to Idaho the next week.  ISU’s final game of 1963 against Wichita was cancelled due to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
 
 
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1981 Big Sky Conference Champions
The greatest team in Idaho State history, the Bengals went from a 19-game losing streak to a national title nearly 19 games later.  ISU went 12-1 on the season, including a win over Division I-A Utah State.  ISU got their conference title when Case deBruijn kicked a 33-yard field goal in the third overtime to defeat Weber State 33-30.  From there, ISU rolled Rhode Island and South Carolina Staet before taking down Eastern Kentucky 34-23 in Wichita Falls, Texas for the championship.
 
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2002 Big Sky Conference Champions
The Bengals won their first conference title since 1981 (see page 20) as they shared the title with Montana and Montana State by going 5-2.  ISU  got a key road win at Eastern Washington, and swept all four conference opponents at home on the way to a 6-0 Holt arena mark and an 8-3 overall record.  ISU’s Homecoming win over Montana State was a thriller, as the Bengals won 18-14 after trailing 14-6 in the fourth.  MSU was stopped at the ISU 4-yard line as time ran out, and ISU also blanked Weber State 34-0, the Bengals’ first conference shutout in 22 years.

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