Idaho–Idaho State football rivalry


The Idaho–Idaho State rivalry, recently branded as the Battle of the Domes, is the intrastate college football game between the University of Idaho in Moscow and Idaho State University in Pocatello.
The rivalry was at its most competitive in the 1970s and 1980s, with neither team three-peating; Idaho has won twelve of the last fourteen and leads the overall series at
A notable game of the series was not even played. In the conference finale for both teams in 1978, a night game was scheduled for Moscow on and ISU planned to fly up to the Palouse that afternoon in two vintage One developed engine trouble shortly after takeoff from Pocatello and returned. Both teams were at the bottom of the Big Sky and the game was not rescheduled; Idaho was granted a

Battle of the Domes

The "Battle of the Domes" theme began in 2017, and is applied to multiple sports. In opposite regions of Idaho and in different time zones, the driving distance between the campuses is over , and over if routed through western Montana and Coeur d'Alene, a popular choice as it is mostly interstate.
Idaho State was the first of the pair to play its home games indoors, opening Holt Arena in 1970. The Kibbie Dome in Moscow was enclosed in 1975, after four years as an outdoor venue; the last two outdoor games in this series were played there in 1971 and 1973, then known as new
From 1971 through 2010, Idaho's primary intrastate rivalry in football was with Boise State.

King Spud Trophy

In early 1962, the basketball teams began playing for the "King Spud Trophy," an oversized metallic potato with a face and Bengal head coach Lynn Archibald thought it should go to the losing team; in 1979, he said, "It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen. The only good thing that happened last week was losing it."

Universities

The University of Idaho was established in 1889 by the territorial legislature and opened its doors three years later. Idaho State's origins date back to 1901; it was a two-year branch campus of the UI, became a four-year college in 1947, and a university in 1963.

Game results