where's our 2018 & 2019 FBS GAME??>? what a joke. buyout the und game in 2019 and go get a guaranteed $500k and FBS WIN! much more national pub then stupid und
NDSU TO FBS. HAVEN'T WE WON ENOUGH?
So any of you "NDSU should go FBS" people excited to watch a meaningless bowl game in front of no fans and a Tueaday afternoon? Dont you wish the Bison could play in such a "big" game?! : )
"North Dakota State is a big part of the fabric of college football right now."
"North Dakota State is alive on the college football map."
-Lee Fitting ESPN
Strength of schedule is completely overblown and meaningless for anyone in a P5 conference. No undefeated P5 team will ever be left out of the playoff just because they played an FCS team. Pretty sure Alabama continues playing FCS teams and it didn't knock them out of the playoff.
I agree with this. Iowa goes 11-1, even with a loss to NDSU, and wins the B10 championship; they are in the playoffs. What hurt Ohio State this season wasn't their SOS, it was a loss to Penn State and Michigan's loss to Iowa to force a three way tie in the division and knock Penn State out of the top spot of the division. Iowa on their side, even with the FCS loss, still was in the mix except their losses to Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Penn State were much more damaging than the loss to NDSU. It comes down to with the Conference Championships now, SOS pretty much has zero effect on the college playoff system. The overall wins and losses play a much more significant effect if there are more than 2 teams tied at the end of the season. Coming out of the B10, SEC, or Pac-12 having won the conference championship will have a much greater effect than a game 5 months earlier. Eventually, the P5 will have to expand to figure out a way to make the conference championship games even more meaningful now that the B12 will have theirs coming up. SOS arguments have quietly left the building and furthermore, probably put P5 schools back in the position to want to schedule a FCS or lesser G5 opponents. Probably doesn't help NDSU much, but might open the door for P5 schools to rethink their no FCS scheduling strategy. I don't think NDSU would have a problem with the top P5 schools running away, but the middle of pack schools who have bowl aspirations might look for easier opponents.
My hope is that the Big 12 will actually find their 10 team league AND a conference championship will knock their champion out of contention without a playoff expansion causing a further shakeup. Say a 11-1 team out of one division plays a 8-4 school out of the other side that just played the week before and the 8-4 school wins. Having a full round robin regular season is going to eventually cause issues with the conference championship game and the college football playoffs. Everything that causes turmoil for the P5 structure helps NDSU. It forces the G5 conferences to seek an identity.
Really? Why did the B1G pick up Maryland and Rutgers? In sure it had NOTHING to do with media markets.
My point was that people from Fargo think it's a pretty big deal. The truth is that it doesn't register with really anybody associated with decisions like this. The failure to understand this causes a lot of angst and "what about us" comments.
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