Opponents Record after playing the Bison

[Hardrocker]

Does anyone have any data or records on how well the opposing team does the Week after playing the Bison?

I thought I heard Phil & Jeff talk about it during last weeks game, especially since Youngstown lost to UNI.

[1st&TennBison]

Last year I jokingly called this result "The Bison Effect". It seems to me that many teams no matter what their record is coming into a regular season game against NDSU, many of them end up taking a nose dive the rest of the season. YSU seems to me to be the only team that has ever recovered from this nose dive and went on to do anything, but even they only managed to do it once. I failed to notice until now, that no MVFC team has beaten the Bison in the playoffs. And, that no team (in all of college football) since the championship runs (2011 season) have beaten the Bison twice.

[tony]

I'm not seeing much of a pattern... this is the records of teams in their next game after the Bison (regular-season games only - and only counting the next game if it was played in the same year):

Year	W	L
2011	6	4
2012	2	8
2013	5	5
2014	5	6
2015	5	5
2016	7	2
2017	1	5

[Mr Meaty]

I'm not seeing much of a pattern... this is the records of teams in their next game after the Bison (regular-season games only - and only counting the next game if it was played in the same year):

Year	W	L
2011	6	4
2012	2	8
2013	5	5
2014	5	6
2015	5	5
2016	7	2
2017	1	5

Myth Buster!!!!!

[BisonNation11]

I'm not seeing much of a pattern... this is the records of teams in their next game after the Bison (regular-season games only - and only counting the next game if it was played in the same year):

Year	W	L
2011	6	4
2012	2	8
2013	5	5
2014	5	6
2015	5	5
2016	7	2
2017	1	5

I have the time, just not at the moment, but do you have the breakdown of OOC team's record and conference team's record? You could also take it a step further and look at their following week's opponent overall record/standings.

[bisonaudit]

I have the time, just not at the moment, but do you have the breakdown of OOC team's record and conference team's record? You could also take it a step further and look at their following week's opponent overall record/standings.

if you’re trying to get at how they did compared to expectation, you could look at the Sagarin or other point spread for the week following and compare to actual. Somebody here, bootfitter, maybe? Has an archive of weekly Sagarin ratings.

[BisonNation11]

if you’re trying to get at how they did compared to expectation, you could look at the Sagarin or other point spread for the week following and compare to actual. Somebody here, bootfitter, maybe? Has an archive of weekly Sagarin ratings.

I'm more interested if playing the Bison effects OOC opponents more or conference opponents. And then take it one step further and look at who they played. Obviously there's some easy teams in the conference but a lot of the OOC teams play some really weak teams.

[IzzyFlexion]

OK.

If a team wants to kick some ass after playing NDSU, well then they outta take a page out of Hostile & Abusive's book.

After losing to NDSU, the f'hawks beat the livin' hell out of UC Davis 31-24.

While suffering a toe-to-toe loss, I think that a few prerequisites for success the following week are clearly defined when analyzing their nail-biter with the Bison.

1) Roll up a shit-load of rushing yards..........UN_ vs. NDSU (2015): 4 net yards.

2) Bask in the glow of a veritable air assault on the Herd........UN_ vs. NDSU (2015): 57 net yards.

3) Chew up the clock by grinding out a multitude of 1st downs.......UN_ vs NDSU (2015): 3 1st downs.

4) Keep your punt team off of the field as much as possible.....UN_ vs NDSU (2015): 10 punts.

That, my friends, is how ya f*kn' do it!!

[BoerneBison]

Those opponents are, collectively, 4 games under .500 following our games. Myth confirmed.

[1st&TennBison]

Most of my point is based on how they were doing or seemed to be doing up until they played the bison. Undefeated or 5-1 type of records, but after playing NDSU they only average 500%.