Every time Paul Brott walks by the Great Divide trophy in the Bobcat Athletic Complex, he taps it three times: once for himself and twice more for his older brothers, former Bobcats Mitch and Wilson.

Brott — now No. 41, a team captain and starting nose tackle for Montana State — has grown up in the Cat-Griz rivalry. He remembered playing at recess in Billings, half the kids wearing Bobcat gear and the rest in Grizzly attire.

He was there for MSU’s 2018 comeback win in Missoula, a game where his brothers played “nasty” and his mother, Gina, juked out a security guard to celebrate on the field.

“Every day you walk past (the trophy), you touch it and you just think about how grateful you are to have it and how ready you are to go back out there and defend it,” Brott said.

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