1995 Idaho Vandals football team

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1995 Idaho Vandals football
Idaho Vandals logo.svg
Conference Big Sky Conference
Record6–5 (4–3 Big Sky)
Head coach
Offensive coordinator George Yarno (1st season)
Offensive scheme Pro-style
Defensive coordinator Nick Holt [1] (2nd season)
Base defense 4–3
Home stadium Kibbie Dome
(Capacity: 16,000)
Seasons
←  1994
1996  →
1995 Big Sky Conference football standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L TW L T
No. 8 Montana $^ 6 –1 –013 –2 –0
No. 17 Idaho ^ 4 –3 –06 –5 –0
No. 21 Boise State 4 –3 –07 –4 –0
No. 22 Northern Arizona 4 –3 –07 –4 –0
Weber State 4 –3 –06 –5 –0
Idaho State 3 –4 –06 –5 –0
Montana State 2 –5 –05 –6 –0
Eastern Washington 1 –6 –03 –8 –0
  • $ – Conference champion
  • ^ – NCAA Division I-AA playoff participant
Rankings from The Sports Network poll

The 1995 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 1995 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Vandals, led by first-year head coach Chris Tormey, were members of the Big Sky Conference and played their home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho. Idaho finished the regular season at 6–4 and 4–3 in the Big Sky, their final season in the conference for more than two decades.

Contents

Idaho defeated rival Boise State for the thirteenth time in fourteen seasons. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Since 1978, [7] the Vandals' football uniforms made prominent use of yellow gold (helmets, pants), [8] [9] [10] which continued through this season. With the move to up Division I-A in 1996, the shade of gold was changed to metallic. [11]

Division I-AA playoffs

After a slow start, the Vandals defeated the top teams in the conference to make the I-AA playoffs for the fourth consecutive season, and the tenth time in eleven seasons under four head coaches. [12] [13] [14] For the second straight year, Idaho traveled to Louisiana to play McNeese State in the first round; the Cowboys were top-ranked this year and won again, this time by thirty points. [15] [16] [17] Conference champion Montana lost to Idaho in the Kibbie Dome in mid-season, then went on to win the national championship; it was the Vandals' first win over the Griz since 1990.

Notable players and coaches

Junior defensive end Ryan Phillips was a four-year starter; [18] he moved to outside linebacker as a senior in 1996, [19] [20] and was selected in the third round of the 1997 NFL draft by the New York Giants. He played five seasons in the NFL, including Super Bowl XXXV in January 2001.

Future Idaho head coach Nick Holt stayed on the staff as defensive coordinator. New head coach Tormey was an alumnus from Spokane who played defense for the Vandals in the mid-1970s, and was the defensive line coach under Dennis Erickson in 1982 and 1983. He had spent the previous eleven seasons at Washington in Seattle under head coaches Don James and Jim Lambright. First-year offensive coordinator George Yarno moved over from neighboring Washington State, his alma mater, where he was the offensive line coach under Mike Price. [1]

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentRankSiteResultAttendanceSource
September 21:00 pmat Oregon State (Div. I-A) *No. 14
L 7–1432,024 [21]
September 163:05 pm Sonoma State (Div. II)*No. 16
W 66–313,519
September 3011:07 amat No. 24 Idaho State No. 13
L 21–2611,127
October 711:05 amat Montana State No. 24
L 13–16  3,117
October 143:05 pm Eastern Washington Dagger-14-plain.png
  • Kibbie Dome
  • Moscow, Idaho
W 37–1014,824
October 213:05 pmNo. 6 Montana
W 55–4314,912 [22]
October 2811:05 amat Weber State
L 19–25  8,128
November 45:05 pmat No. 13 Northern Arizona
W 17–1412,371
November 114:35 pmat No. 15 Northern Iowa *
W 16–1216,324
November 183:05 pmNo. 16 Boise State No. 25
W 33–1316,295 [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
November 255:00 pmat No. 1 McNeese State *No. 17
L 3–3315,736 [15] [16] [17]

Roster

1995 Idaho Vandals football team roster
PlayersCoaches
Offense
Pos.#NameClass
OT Spencer Folau Sr
Defense
Pos.#NameClass
DE 96 Ryan Phillips Jr
Special teams
Pos.#NameClass
Head coach
Coordinators/assistant coaches
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (S) Suspended
  • (I) Ineligible
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
  • Redshirt.svg Redshirt
Source: [23] [24] [25] [26]

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