Montana State quarterback Tommy Mellott won the Walter Payton Award as the Football Championship Subdivision offensive player of the year Saturday night, two days before the top-ranked Bobcats face North Dakota State in the title game.

A panel of 52 voters selected MSU’s Tommy Mellot as the winner of the Walter Payton Award, which goes to the best offensive player in the FCS. NDSU’s Cam Miller finished second.

Sen. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) swearing-in for a full six-year term in the upper chamber this week set a U.S. record, as the 119th Congress convened for the first time Friday. The Democrat from Burbank, Calif., is the only senator in the U.S. history to have taken the oath of office three separate times in less…

The redshirt junior had just scored seven of Eastern’s last 10 points, helping them to close out a 68-63 victory over Montana State, the Eagles’ first Big Sky victory this season. But McClain was still back in the locker room, getting coached by assistant Larry Anderson.