BOZEMAN — The Montana football team earned a one-point win Saturday that featured a missed extra point and a late fourth-and-12 conversion.

That clash against No. 16-ranked North Dakota arguably was one of several exciting games involving Big Sky Conference teams during Week 3.

Few games featured more fireworks than Northern Arizona’s 52-49 road win over past and future Big Sky program Southern Utah.

After a relatively quiet first half (7-7 score in each quarter), NAU outscored SUU 28-14 in the third quarter, highlighted by an 88-yard touchdown pass from Ty Pennington to Kolbe Katsis two plays after the Thunderbirds cut their deficit to 28-21. One play after Katsis’ score, SUU’s Ran Sawyer returned the kickoff 95 yards for the third TD in 29 seconds.

NAU found the end zone near

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