HELENA, Mont. – Eyes from around the Frontier, and around the nation, will be on Caldwell, Idaho this afternoon as the No. 12-ranked Carroll Football team takes on No. 2 College of Idaho at Simplot Stadium with the Frontier-West Championship on the line at 12 p.m.
For the second straight season, the Fighting Saints (7-1, 4-0) and Yotes (8-0, 4-0) will put their undefeated Frontier-West records on the line, searching for the division’s title, and associated autobid to the upcoming NAIA Football Championship Series.
There are a very limited number of teams in the country who can claim a winning record in the all-time series against Carroll. Only 19 teams have a better record in their respective all-time series with the Saints, with the majority of those teams now at the NCAA Division I level – or teams who dropped Football decades ago. Entering Saturday, College of Idaho holds a 9-7 edge in the head-to-head, making them one of just four current NAIA teams with a better record in the historical series. Of the 16 all-time meetings, 14 games have been played since the 2014 season when C of I reinstated their football program that had been disbanded since 1978. The series is split dead-even at 7-7 since. The two other Yote wins came back in the late-1930’s…