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Montana State Bobcats football

Football program of Montana State University

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Montana State Bobcats football program competes in the Big Sky Conference of the NCAA's Division I Football Championship Subdivision for Montana State University. The program began in 1897 and has won four national championships. It is the only college football program in the nation to win national championships on three different levels of competition, NAIA, NCAA Division II, and NCAA Division I FCS. Through the 2025 season, the Bobcats had played in 1,077 games with an all-time record of 548–497–32.

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“Montana State Bobcats football” enters the record as football program of Montana State University. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Montana, State and Bobcats can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1897, 2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Montana, State and Bobcats.
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“Montana State Bobcats football” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Montana, State and Bobcats provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1897 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Montana State Bobcats football” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.