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Not gonna lie... if (and hopefully when) the Bison move up I'm going to miss that feeling on consecutive weekends in December when you know the season is over if the boys lose but it only gets bigger...

The Big 12, when they were 10 teams, played a full round robin but still played the conference championship game after a few years of not doing it. IIRC they were more concerned about strengthening...

Wouldn't that still be a good thing from NDSU's POV??? It was always in NDSU's best interest to have the Pac raid the MWC so if this is what it takes so be it. I'd agree that the promotion/relegation...

Who are the power schools though? Oregon State and Washington State??? They need the MWC more than the MWC needs them at this point.

Now here would the the kind of opportunity that would be ideal for NDSU - a Pac-2/MWC merger that includes promotion/relegation and would likely require expansion:...

Never thought I'd see a P5 conference just wither and die - always thought they'd be able to salvage themselves (like the Big 12 did twice) because the remaining P5 teams would have enough draw to...

All those G5 locations, with the exception of Hawaii, have a "bridge" conference member within a few hundred miles. NDSU is 800+ miles from the nearest MWC school and 1000+ from the nearest CUSA or...

One thing I learned recently is that the CAA is actually called the Coastal Athletic Association - not sure when it happened since I always remember them being the Colonial Athletic Association but...

Stanford and Cal to the Atlantic Coast Conference. All the sharks have now been jumped by this effed up realignment carousel.

In Jacksonville State's first game hosting a real FBS program in UTEP they drew just under 18k fans to their 24,000 seat stadium yesterday. That's just below their 2022 average (playing an ASUN/FCS...

I'll take Chip Kelly's idea to solve the out-of-control realignment whirlwind: https://www.si.com/college/2023/08/10/ucla-chip-kelly-pitches-notre-dame-inspired-realignment-idea

In short - no...

Seems like all the activity on Friday could still either be a very good thing or a very bad thing for the MWC. In any case, if a spot opens up for NDSU in the MWC it seems very likely that the...

Maybe they know a guy.....

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From a football standpoint the Big 12 will still be at least a notch (likely several notches) below the B1G and SEC. I don't even think they'll be at the ACC's level since I'm not sure there's any...

I've seen this rumor mentioned a couple places and tend to think it's BS until there's some explanation/acknowledgement of how Clemson and FSU would handle the ACC's grant of rights agreement which...

Looks up commercial flights from Reno to Fargo or Fresno to Fargo and tell me that - it'll be at least 1 and quite possibly 2 connections unless you want to fly into MSP and bus 3.5 hours each way....

If NDSU had Oregon money travel in any conference wouldn't be an issue for them either.

Plenty of pundits have written off the Big 12 in the past as being "on life support" or some variation of that on two different occasions - first when Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri, and Texas A&M all...

Agreed - I was under the impression there were some hoops FBS conferences had to jump through with the NCAA to get approval for football only members but the fact that he said they were looking at...

I wouldn't say it's a good thing either but it's also not something to use as proof that NDSU should've tried to go FBS Independent or begged to get into a league like CUSA using any means possible....

#1 The "FCS Forever" crowd at NDSU is a made-up boogeyman for the "we needed to be FBS yesterday" crowd.
#2 If a one-time $5M fee is an issue you probably have no hope of sustaining an FBS level...

The overall conference ratings do not matter in a 12 team CFP - in fact I don't even know they would calculate that since the CFP committee just ranks the top 25 teams so their would be no way to...

I think you're mis-interpreting the term "highest rated conference champions". It's not the champions of the 6 highest rated conferences that get automatic bids into the 12 team playoffs it's the 6...

Geography isn't a big deal when it comes to travel for football when you're chartering flights but no FBS conference is looking for football only members. Geography becomes a bigger deal when you're...

You can replace "other sports" with "men's basketball" - no other sport outside of football really moves the needle when it comes to making a school desirable for conferences. I think NDSU has plenty...