Reading Jalmond's weekly Big Sky preview, one thing that stands out is the amount of out of conference scheduling occurring between the MVFC, SLC, and BSC. This week, Weber hosts NDSU, SUU travels to SELA, and Poly plays at SDSU. With Eastern already hosting SHSU, that makes 4 ranked OOC opponents for the BSC.

Next week, SDSU comes out to play SUU, CAU is at Montana State, North Dakota hosts Missouri State, and South Dakato is at Montana.

The following week, Montana is at NDSU, UNC is at UNI, and Weber goes to SFA.

I know EWU has home and homes with both UNI and NDSU coming up the next few years.

I remember the days when finding OOC FCS games was very rare for BSC teams and they frequently settled for 2 FBS and a play down game or more recently played non-conference games agains other BSC schools. I think this is a really healthy development seeing more OOC games between power conferences and ranked teams.

Kudo's to these three conferences.