Quote Originally Posted by 344Johnson View Post
History, being anything before the 80's. I take peoples word who were around when they say 60's is when NDSU started turning it on especially against UND. Can I personally confirm it or do I know the statistics other than 8 championships against 1 for UND? No, not at all. In fact I was very surprised to hear UND has had that many conference titles and a pretty good of a winning percentage, but thats still not football tradition. Tradition is what we have. Or on a bigger scale, what Oklahoma, Alabama, USC, Nebraska, etc. have. UND is a little harder to compare...maybe a Colorado or something? Sometimes pretty good, but not a whole lot to show for it.
NDSU won three College Division national championships via the polls in the late 1960's (This was the equivalent of basically the top half of FCS and the bottom third of FBS today). NDSU then won 5 NCAA DII national championships in the 1980's and in 1990.

UND won one DII national championship in 2001, which was around the time the scholarship levels were being reduced to the point where the whole division was becoming really diluted (Not to mention schools like Minnesota-Crookston and MSUM entering DII)

In the 1980's, when NDSU was taking home title after title, there were 45 scholarships maximum for a DII team. NDSU was giving out all 45 of them, and not very many other DII schools were doing the same. UND was not able to provide all 45 like NDSU did. This max went down to 36 sometime in the 90's. Surprise surprise, UND was giving out 36 schollies, but now NDSU was forced to reduce the number of schollies it gave for football to 36. The result: UND beat us most of the time, almost always in a really close game.

Back when the score was 45-30-something for schollies in favor of NDSU, NDSU was UND's master in football. Every year was a woodshed beatin' on UND.