BILLINGS — One thing coaches Bobby Hauck and Brent Vigen will combat this week is their respective football teams — Montana and Montana State — peering ahead to an unprecedented Cat/Griz matchup in the semifinal round of the FCS playoffs.

But that doesn't mean we can't.

When this year's NCAA Division I Football Championship field was announced Nov. 23 — one day after the Bobcats edged the Grizzlies 31-28 in Missoula in their annual Brawl of the Wild clash — it was immediately evident that the archrivals were on another collision course. The No. 2-seeded Bobcats and No. 3 Grizzlies were officially paired on the same side of the bracket, meaning a semifinal bout between the programs was a distinct possibility.

It's never happened before, perhaps surprisingly. But now the Cats and Griz sta

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