The Mountain West is in serious dialogue to add FCS powerhouse North Dakota State as a football-only member starting this coming season

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Border Gopher said:
There were four championship caliber teams in FCS. Now there are three. It’s boring as fuck
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I think there is more like 6-7

I know North Dakota and South Dakota hasn’t won one but the 4 Dakotas + 2 montanas + a random rotating team are usually the ones in the mix
 

Some guy said:
I think there is more like 6-7

I know North Dakota and South Dakota hasn’t won one but the 4 Dakotas + 2 montanas + a random rotating team are usually the ones in the mix
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4 Dakotas? SDSU and NDSU are all I can think of. UND and USD aren't there.
 

Who knows how true this is but that won't stop NDSUers from parading it around like a dog who's found a useless stick in the park. In the bisonville.com world, one would think that having announced they were moving to the basement of FBS 9 days ago that regional P4 teams should be buying out of long arranged games to schedule home and homes with the Bison.

 


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Didn't want to start another thread, but Sacramento State to the MAC, this has been news for a little while now:

www.usatoday.com

Sac State football to join MAC as conference reshuffle continues

Sacramento State is getting a new football conference, and it's going to mean some serious travel for the Northern California school.
www.usatoday.com
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$18 million to the MAC. $5m to NCAA. No media share (I doubt there was much anyway). Sac has to pay travel for MAC teams to Sacramento. The biggest kicker - it's only a five year agreement. Sac is paying tens of millions of dollars for what is essentially a five year scheduling agreement.
 



swede2 said:
Who knows how true this is but that won't stop NDSUers from parading it around like a dog who's found a useless stick in the park. In the bisonville.com world, one would think that having announced they were moving to the basement of FBS 9 days ago that regional P4 teams should be buying out of long arranged games to schedule home and homes with the Bison.

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It's not a game that is needed in any way for Minnesota. Especially under the current structure of ten P4 games. MN recruits ND pretty good, so I don't know why MN would want to write a check to NDSU to play meaningless games.

Personally I like the games and rivalry, but it doesn't make much sense.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
It's not a game that is needed in any way for Minnesota. Especially under the current structure of ten P4 games. MN recruits ND pretty good, so I don't know why MN would want to write a check to NDSU to play meaningless games.

Personally I like the games and rivalry, but it doesn't make much sense.
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Yeah it's not like MN is scheduling Tulane, Memphis, etc as is. Those two other games are always going to be against bottom half G5 teams and FCS.
 

MaxyJR1 said:
It's not a game that is needed in any way for Minnesota. Especially under the current structure of ten P4 games. MN recruits ND pretty good, so I don't know why MN would want to write a check to NDSU to play meaningless games.

Personally I like the games and rivalry, but it doesn't make much sense.
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Right. I would frankly prefer that we scheduled regional FCS and FBS programs for OOC interest but the reality of CFB today makes it an understandable non-starter. Returning to the whole "bored of winning bit," I think the Bison sycophancy overestimate the opportunity for attractive games. With P4 programs playing 9 conference games and 10 total P4 games, there are fewer opportunities for buy games from P4 than even a few years ago and those buy games are going to be against known cupcakes. NDSU has a game scheduled with Oregon for 2028 but it is almost universally accepted that Oregon will move that game back (it was originally scheduled for 2020).
 





We do not have a rivalry with NDSU. With North Dakota and hockey yes. We gain nothing by playing them and the fact that it bothers them by not playing them is all the better. Besides Wisconsin and Iowa a better border rival would be ISU.

Go Gophers !!!!!!!!!
 

swede2 said:
Who knows how true this is but that won't stop NDSUers from parading it around like a dog who's found a useless stick in the park. In the bisonville.com world, one would think that having announced they were moving to the basement of FBS 9 days ago that regional P4 teams should be buying out of long arranged games to schedule home and homes with the Bison.

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They're out in full force already pounding their chests of beating 1-11 and 3-9 team
 




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