2012 Eastern Washington Eagles football team


The 2012 Eastern Washington Eagles football team represented Eastern Washington University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. The team was coached by Beau Baldwin, who was in his fifth season with Eastern Washington. The Eagles played their home games at Roos Field in Cheney, Washington and were a member of the Big Sky Conference. They finished the season 11–3, 7–1 in Big Sky play to share the conference championship with Cal Poly and Montana State. They received the Big Sky's automatic bid into the FCS Playoffs where they defeated Wagner in the second round and Illinois State in the quarterfinals before falling in the semifinals to Sam Houston State.

Schedule

Despite also being a member of the Big Sky, the game against Cal Poly on November 3 was considered a non conference game and had no effect on the Big Sky standings.

Game summaries

@ Idaho

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–152003EWU, 8–5

@ Washington State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–21908WSU, 73–0

@ Weber State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
16–142011EWU, 27–21

Montana

Overall recordLast meetingResult
11–26–12011MONT, 17–14

North Dakota

Overall recordLast meetingResult
First meeting--

@ Montana State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
25–102011MSU, 36–21

Sacramento State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
16–42011EWU, 42–35

@ Southern Utah

Overall recordLast meetingResult
4–12010EWU, 31–24

Cal Poly

Overall recordLast meetingResult
3–22011EWU, 53–51

UC Davis

Overall recordLast meetingResult
2–02007EWU, 41–31

@ Portland State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
14–19–12011PSU, 43–26

FCS Playoffs

Wagner–FCS Playoffs Second Round

Illinois State–FCS Quarterfinals

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–11987ISU, 31–14

Sam Houston State–FCS Semifinals

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–12004SHS, 35–34

Only previous meeting was in the 2004 FCS Playoffs quarterfinals.

Ranking movements