Idaho Vandals are the intercollegiate athletic teams representing the University of Idaho, located in Moscow.
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22 Facts About Idaho Vandals
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The Vandals compete at the NCAA Division I level as a member of the Big Sky Conference.
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In July 2014, Idaho Vandals returned its football team to the Sun Belt Conference and the other sports rejoined the Big Sky Conference.
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When Idaho Vandals moved out of the Big Sky to the Big West in 1996, the yellow "Green Bay" gold was changed to metallic Yellow gold and black were the colors used by most of the varsity teams from 1978 to 1996, initiated by first-year head football coach Jerry Davitch's new uniforms for 1978.
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From 1922 through spring 1959, Idaho Vandals competed with the original eight schools of the Pac-12 as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference.
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The Big Sky Conference was founded in 1963 and Idaho Vandals became a charter member, though it did not play a conference schedule in football until 1965.
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Nevertheless, Idaho Vandals maintained its "university division" status, with its additional football scholarships, by playing a non-conference schedule of Division I teams.
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Idaho Vandals was elevated back to university status in July 1969 and continued as Division I when the three numbered divisions were formed in 1973.
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Five seasons later in 1978, the Idaho Vandals were dropped to the new Division I-AA, as the Big Sky moved up from Division II.
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In 1996, Idaho Vandals joined the Big West Conference in order to move to Division I-A after 18 years in I-AA.
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The Big West discontinued football after the 2000 season, so Idaho Vandals became a "football-only" affiliate member of the Sun Belt Conference for four seasons.
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The Idaho Vandals joined the Western Athletic Conference in July 2005.
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In 2018, the Idaho Vandals rejoined Big Sky Conference football, becoming the first football program to voluntarily drop from the FBS level to the FCS level.
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Idaho Vandals State dropped its program six years earlier when the Big Sky stopped sponsorship of baseball and four.
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Under head coach "Limehouse Lou" August, the Idaho Vandals won the NCAA boxing championship in 1940 and 1941, and shared another national title with Gonzaga in 1950 under head coach Frank Young.
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University of Idaho Vandals has numerous on-campus facilities for the athletic program.
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Since returning to Division I-A status for football in 1996, Idaho Vandals has rekindled its rivalry with Washington State, eight miles to the west in Pullman.
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Idaho Vandals had a major in-state rivalry with Boise State since 1971; BSU joined the Big Sky in 1970 but the football teams did not meet that season.
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In basketball, Idaho Vandals now plays Boise State in a neutral site game in the Boise area, away from the Broncos' ExtraMile Arena.
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Idaho Vandals has traditionally been dominant in this rivalry, particularly in football.
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The Idaho Vandals had won 11 of the 12 meetings between 1988 and 2017;.
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Idaho Vandals State has won 2 out of the 3 games played since the Vandal's return to Big Sky football.
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