Eastern Washington University has completed its 12-game football schedule in 2019 with the addition of a road game at Idaho on Sept. 21 and a non-conference home game vs. Lindenwood on Sept. 7. The schedule was announced Friday (Jan. 11) by Eastern Associate Vice President/Director of Athletics Lynn Hickey.
With the return of Idaho to the Big Sky Conference in 2018 and the departure of North Dakota, Eastern will annually play the Vandals in a league game. However, 2019 was left out as a league game because of schedules already in place. It worked out that both the Eagles and Vandals had the same open date in their non-conference schedule.
Eastern season tickets will go on sale soon for a five-game home schedule, with seven games played on the road. The Eagles will play Lindenwood, a NCAA Division II school in St. Charles, Mo., in EWU’s home opener on Sept. 7. The Lions are a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.
Eastern’s second home game will be Sept. 28 versus North Dakota, which will be the last game for EWU that counts in the league standings vs. the Fighting Hawks. North Dakota is in transition after leaving the Big Sky for the Missouri Valley Conference, and will begin play in that league in 2020.
Other home games for the Eagles are Oct. 12 versus Northern Colorado, Nov. 2 against Northern Arizona and Nov. 23 versus Portland State on Senior Day at EWU. The game vs. North Dakota is expected to be designated as Hall of Fame Day at EWU, and Homecoming is tentatively scheduled for the UNC game.
Eastern opens the 2019 season at Washington of the Pac-12 Conference, and will also play a non-conference road game at Jacksonville State of the Ohio Valley Conference on Sept. 14. That game is part of a home-and home series that will also include a home game for EWU at Roos Field on Sept. 11, 2021.
The Eagles and Idaho will play the final non-conference game against each other on Sept. 21 in Moscow. Starting in 2020, the two schools will be considered “rivals” by the league and will play each other every season. Portland State is EWU’s other “rival,” while Idaho will face Montana every year starting in 2020.
Eastern plays four league road games – Oct. 5 at Sacramento State, Sept. 26 at Montana, Nov. 9 at Idaho State and Nov. 16 at Cal Poly. Because of the way the calendar falls in 2019, an additional game is allowed by the NCAA in lieu of the traditional 11-game schedule collegiate teams play. The FCS playoffs will begin on Nov. 30.
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