Quote Originally Posted by B. b. bison View Post
A few more offseason stats:

NDSU finished the 2017 Season as the 30th winningest NCAA team

Of the teams with more wins than NDSU (1894), only Oklahoma (1895) and Florida (1906) began playing football after NDSU. Arkansas and Texas A&M both had the same inaugural season as NDSU.

No team with more wins than NDSU has played fewer games than NDSU. NDSU has played 28 fewer games than any other team in the top 30.

The only FCS teams with more wins than NDSU are the top four Ivy League schools (Yale (#2), Harvard (#10), Penn (#11), and Princeton(#14)). Dartmoth (#34(T)), Cornell (#64), and Brown (#74) also appear in the top 100. Columbia isn't even close with 373 wins and a .376 overall win percentage.
Pretty amazing - especially considering that if you look at just schools who are DI now

End of 2009 season
UNI was #49 with 607 wins
NDSU was #50 with 604
UND was #51 with 603

End of 2017 season
NDSU was #28 with 710 wins
UNI was #45 with 667 wins
UND was #52 with 646

NDSU has more wins this decade than UNI and UND combined.
Or, if you prefer, NDSU has more wins the SDSU and USD combined too (this decade)