NDSU vs Illinois State National Championship

[ZHerd]

Does UNI get to paint a special.graphic on their garage door for beating the national champ?

They have the honor of painting each teams enzone

[Bison4peat]

Can't wait for this game! Hopefully we can get healthy and play "grown man football" as the announcers were calling it last night when we started grinding Sam Houston.

[StL Bison Fan]

So, the championship game will be between two teams UNI beat. Ouch.

[MontBison]

So just spitballing here but what are the chances that College Gameday would do a shortened show from Frisco the morning of January 10th? Stay with me here, the FBS natty is two days later at Jerry World so the crews should already be in town. They know the scene that NDSU fans make down in Frisco as they've mentioned it on both Gamedays that have been in Fargo. They could easily kill a couple hours over analyzing the FBS game but perhaps it could give some additional exposure to the FCS game and show a national audience how NDSU brings the party with us from Fargo to Frisco.

Zero chance.

[Bison4peat]

So, the championship game will be between two teams UNI beat. Ouch.

Yes,but UNI picked the wrong game to lose between the 2 they played

[bisonpride4ever]

MVFC Master Race!

[Bison4peat]

125 FCS teams and it comes down to 2 MVFC teams that did not play in the regular season. The stars have aligned, this is going to be fantastic!

[Buffalo.Rider]

Here are some stats, from the NCAA website (link follows) comparing NDSU and Illinois State
www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fcs/current/team/22
(per the NCAA website, contains the Friday Bison game, but not the Saturday 11/20 ISU vs. NHU game
(I will update these when the NCAA website gets updated)


OFFENSE

.	NDSU	Illinois State
Total Offense	431 yds	467 yds
Rushing Offense	237 yds	244 yds
Passing Offense	194 yds	223 yds
3rd Down Conv	0.490	0.514
Sacks Allowed/game	1.07	1.62
Scoring Offense	33	41

DEFENSE

.	NDSU	Illinois State
Total Defense	271 yds	336 yds
Rushing Defense	116 yds	113 yds
Passing Defense	155 yds	223 yds
3rd Down Conv Def	0.313	0.352
Team Sacks/game	2.80	2.92
Scoring Defense	13	21

OTHER

.	NDSU	Illinois State
Turnover Margin	+12	+3
Time of Possession	34 min	32 min
Penalty Yards/game	45 yds	50 yds

[ndsubison1]

ISU will be a tough matchup. I expect it to be a good game.

[A1pigskin]

Have two teams from the valley ever played each other for the championship?