(06-22-2017 05:52 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Colorado Mines is a pier to the Montana schools since they are R2. That school does have a long history playing ball with the D1 schools in the west including Montanas. I think they are considered #3 Colorado public school not counting Air Force.

I do see schools from large populated areas could be a target from D2. I do not think they want Dixie State just yet. Could the Big Sky target Azusa Pacific to go along with Sacramento State? They do have football, but not much to choose from D2 California schools since many of them dropped football around the same time the Big West California schools dropped football.

A rating does not make them a peer. That long history with D1 schools lasted about 30 years and for the most part ended 80 years ago. Colorado Mines football never played Montana (never a RMAC member) and played Montana State 10 times from 1925 to 1956. Easy to research, try it. Just no to Azusa Pacific and Dixie State.