It took less than two minutes into his postgame press conference for Montana State head coach Brent Vigen to get a little fired up about his running backs.

He was specifically impassioned about Adam Jones, who hadn’t carried his momentum from his breakout 2024 campaign through the first six weeks of 2025 (242 rushing yards and five touchdowns on 59 carries).

All it took for the Missoula Sentinel graduate to break through that wall was a little rain and an Idaho State defense that wasn’t equipped to stop him.

Jones finished with 173 yards and a TD on 16 carries (10.8 yards per carry) in No. 5 MSU’s 48-14 win over Idaho State Saturday at Bobcat Stadium. It’s the most rushing yards for a Bobcat since Jones rushed for 197 against Montana in last year’s Brawl of the Wild.

“Hopefully this wi

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