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Over the past 27 years, the Montana football team has played in some crazy games at Idaho State's cozy little dome in Pocatello.

The place is no longer called Holt Arena, by the way. In 2024, the oldest enclosed stadium on a college campus in the United States was renamed ICCU Dome, as in Idaho Central Credit Union.

To say Montana and Idaho State have a rivalry would be mighty kind to the Bengals. ISU has lost 15 in a row to the Grizzlies, with its last win coming in the dome, 43-40, in double overtime in 2003.

Since then the teams have had two memorable nail-biters in Pocatello. Two games in which Montana came away with wins.

Start with the 2009 donnybrook that finished with a score you'd expect from a park-rec softball game. Second-ranked Montana went into

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