2001 Idaho Vandals football
ConferenceSun Belt Conference
Record1–10 (1–5 SBC)
Head coach
Offensive coordinatorBret Ingalls (2nd season)
Offensive schemePro-style
Defensive coordinatorEd Rifilato[1] (2nd season)
Base defense4–3
Home stadiumMartin Stadium (Pullman, WA)
Kibbie Dome (Moscow, ID)
2001 Sun Belt Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
Middle Tennessee +  5 –1   8 –3  
North Texas +  5 –1   5 –7  
New Mexico State  4 –2   5 –7  
Louisiana–Lafayette  2 –4   3 –8  
Arkansas State  2 –4   2 –9  
Louisiana–Monroe  2 –4   2 –9  
Idaho  1 –5   1 –10  
  • + – Conference co-champions

The 2001 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho during the 2001 NCAA Division I-A football season. Idaho was a football-only member of the Sun Belt Conference. The Vandals' head coach was alumnus Tom Cable, in his second season, and Idaho was 1–10 overall, 1–5 in conference, their lowest win total since 1960, and most losses in a season.[2]

Idaho played its November home games at the Kibbie Dome, an indoor 16,000-seat facility on campus in Moscow, Idaho; earlier home games in 2001 were held at Martin Stadium at Washington State University in nearby Pullman, Washington.[3]

This was the first year of football competition in the Sun Belt Conference, which included four of the six members of the Big West from the previous football season; the three that moved to full membership were Arkansas State, New Mexico State, and North Texas. Idaho and Utah State stayed in the Big West for other sports, but the Aggies went independent for football (for two seasons). Boise State joined the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), marking the first time Idaho and BSU were not in the same conference since 1969, when the Broncos were an NAIA independent.

Schedule

DateTimeOpponentSiteTVResultAttendanceSource
August 307:00 pmvs. Washington State*
FSNL 7–3631,097[3]
September 87:00 pmat Arizona*
L 29–3644,250
September 2212:30 pmat No. 13 Washington*
FSNL 3–5370,145
September 297:00 pmBoise State
  • Martin Stadium
  • Pullman, WA (rivalry)
L 13–4520,359
October 64:00 pmat Middle Tennessee
L 58–7023,100[4]
October 135:00 pmat New Mexico State
L 39–4620,323
October 2012:30 pmLouisiana–Lafayettedagger
  • Martin Stadium
  • Pullman, WA
L 37–5413,088
October 2712:00 pmat Arkansas State
L 31–34
November 36:00 pmLouisiana–Monroe
W 42–38
November 177:00 pmNorth Texas
  • Kibbie Dome
  • Moscow, ID
L 27–50
November 2411:00 amat No. 1 (Div. I-AA) Montana*
L 27–33 2OT18,056[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Rifilato resigns from UI staff". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). December 21, 2001. p. 2B.
  2. 1 2 Meehan, Jim (November 25, 2001). "UI finds a new way to lose". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.
  3. 1 2 Strickland, Carter (August 31, 2001). "Payback on the Palouse". Spokesman-Review. (Spokane, Washington). p. C1.
  4. ↑ Fessenden, Darren (October 8, 2001). "Records fall along with Vandals". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. (Idaho-Washington). p. 1B.
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