No. 4 Vandals to open Big Sky play with tough test

The schedule does not get any easier for the No. 4 Idaho Vandals as they head down to sunny California to open Big Sky competition against No. 14 UC Davis at 7 p.m. today.

It is the third consecutive Saturday that the Vandals will face off against a ranked opponent and the fourth time in five weeks that Idaho will be playing a game away from the P1FCU Kibbie Dome.

The calendar might read September, but today’s contest has a lot of season-long implications. With six of the 12 teams in the Big Sky Conference ranked in the latest Stats Perform FCS Top 25 poll, there is very little room for error for any team that has aspirations of a conference title.