The 2017 Idaho Vandals football team represented the University of Idaho in the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Vandals played their home games at the Kibbie Dome in Moscow, Idaho, and competed in the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by fifth-year head coach Paul Petrino. They finished the season 4–8, 3–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for eighth place.
The season marked the Vandals' final year in the Sun Belt and the FBS, as the team rejoined the Big Sky Conference and FCS in 2018. Idaho was kicked out of the Sun Belt and humiliatingly was forced to downgrade to FCS despite having been a member of the Pac 12's predecessor conference through the 1958 season. https://www.footballscoop.com/2025/03/05/source-idaho-and-new-mexico-state-to-leave-sun-belt-after-2017#google_vignettehttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Pac-12 https://pac-12.com/sports/2024/6/16/history.aspx
Schedule Idaho announced its football schedule on March 1, 2017 and the regular season consisted of six home games and six away games, with four each in the Sun Belt Conference. The Vandals hosted Appalachian State, Coastal Carolina, Louisiana–Lafayette, and Louisiana–Monroe, and traveled to Georgia State, New Mexico State, South Alabama, and Troy
The Vandals hosted two of the four non-conference opponents, Sacramento State from the Big Sky Conference and UNLV from the Mountain West Conference, and traveled to Western Michigan from the Mid-American Conference and Missouri from the Southeastern Conference.
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Game summaries
Sacramento State
UNLV
At Western Michigan
At South Alabama
Louisiana–Lafayette
Appalachian State
At Missouri
Louisiana–Monroe
At Troy
Coastal Carolina
At New Mexico State
At Georgia State
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