2019 Semifinals: NDSU v Montana State

[Bison 4 Life]

The is one football program in North Dakota and one in Montana. People all over the country know who the Bison and the Griz are.

Then maybe Carroll college, after that people watch dancing with the stars

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I live in Ohio and when I said that we're playing Montana State on Saturday, someone asked if it was the Grizzlies. I had to explain there was another team in Montana and they'd never heard of them.

[MNLonghorn10]

There is one football program in North Dakota and one in Montana. People all over the country know who the Bison and the Griz are.

Then maybe Carroll college, after that people watch dancing with the stars

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Montana Tech is more popular after that coach video with all of his sayings emerged a few months ago

[Professor Chaos]

Actually yes...because nobody cares who either school hires on a national level..yet both schools get a small blurb on ESPN and other sports websites. I'm pretty sure your school isn't as big of a name as you would like to believe...as you guys are confused with UND just as often as we are confused with UM.

NDSU (vs anybody) has gotten the prime ESPN TV spot in the quarterfinals and semifinals for the last 7+ years. That isn't a coincidence. From the 10,000 foot view of the national sports landscape you're right that a very small amount of people care about FCS football but NDSU is by far the biggest name in the FCS when it comes to attracting eyeballs to national broadcasts.

[minnesotabobcat]

1. 7 of the last 8 national titles in FCS
2. No loss to a FBS including P5 since 2009
3. Starting NFL QB who was the second pick in the draft
4. Consistently ranked a top 25 tailgating spot
5. 3 ESPN Gameday appearances
6. Numerous games on ESPN, ESPN2, and every game on ESPN 3 and not plus.

Yes, we are a national brand. How many of those the kitty's have?

Sure you are. That's why they sent your trophy to Grand Forks a few years back....everyone knows right where to find you.

[THEsocalledfan]

Sure you are. That's why they sent your trophy to Grand Forks a few years back....everyone knows right where to find you.

Only thing you guys guys got going for you is being featured on the TV show, Yellowstone. Granted, I'd want Rip on my team:

[HerdBot]

1. 7 of the last 8 national titles in FCS
2. No loss to a FBS including P5 since 2009
3. Starting NFL QB who was the second pick in the draft
4. Consistently ranked a top 25 tailgating spot
5. 3 ESPN Gameday appearances
6. Numerous games on ESPN, ESPN2, and every game on ESPN 3 and not plus.

Yes, we are a national brand. How many of those the kitty's have?

ESPN only ranked us as the 10th best college football program of all time. I mean, we've only been on ESPN 25 times since 2011 and I'm confident College Gameday would have gone to Brookings South Dakota had they been playing Austin Peay.

[NDSUBowler]

212

Can this sell out by noon?

195

Selling out by Noon is likely not happening!

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

Montana Tech is more popular after that coach video with all of his sayings emerged a few months ago

True but Bob Green hasn't coached there for almost a decade. He's a hell of a good guy

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[ALPHAGRIZ1]

I live in Ohio and when I said that we're playing Montana State on Saturday, someone asked if it was the Grizzlies. I had to explain there was another team in Montana and they'd never heard of them.

Yep

It's why they act and are little brother

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[cats2506]

Where are you hearing this? None of it adds up. ESPN had a set schedule of college basketball and volleyball games on ESPN2 and ESPNU all day last Saturday. It's possible they wanted it on ESPN3 on Saturday but they probably didn't put up much of a fight because when it's streaming they don't seem to care much (see the fact that they had 4 of the 8 second round games kicking off at the exact same time). Maybe if Sac St won they wanted Montana St/Sac St in that Friday night spot that Weber St and Montana were in but it makes no sense that they would shuffle their entire programming schedule on ESPN2 or ESPNU on Saturday.

Good sources withing the MSU administration told me how it went down, By the time the (Rnd 2) game started, we knew it would be moved to ESPN3 on Friday if Sac lost later that night.