Especially because three years ago we would have been lucky to lose by fewer than three touchdowns.
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Bowl Games (other than ours) and associated silliness 2024 Plus the Playoffs
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Have to assume that the coaches know their team and have a good idea of chances for success.
If you have a great throwing QB (Kordell) and some game breaking receivers (Westbrook) you go for the fair catch. Have a great returner( Ben Kelly) and a solid blocking team go for the return. Lacking those but have a talented bunch of potential punt blockers rush 11 and take your chances.
NDSU had a very solid pass defense so you odds on one pass play against them are pretty low.
And more than likely the team that would've also won the MWC, MAC and Sun Belt if we're being honest.
They were not close to the worst team we played this year.
They would've have beat CSU by 3 scores. Just a better team across the board.
Sagarin is still updating, but has not updated since the game last night. NDSU came into that game as #40 in their rankings, and MSU was #45. I can't imagine either team will move much as a result of that game, BUUUUUT if NDSU could move up 5 ranks to #35 they'd finish above Nebraska. LOL.
Going into last night's game, the only G5 team that NDSU would NOT be favored against on a neutral field according to Sagarin is Boise State, and even BSU would be somewhere between a 1-3 point favorite. Interestingly, South Dakota State (who fell to NDSU 13-9) would be favored against NDSU.
To your other point, they would be favored (according to Sagarin) by 13-14 points against CSU.
NDSU was a good football team this year, regardless of subdivision.
It's incredibly rare to get to watch an eventual national champion come through Boulder, regardless of sport. Congrats to them! I think it's pretty cool that we got to host NDSU this season -- even cooler that we got to hand them one of their rare losses.
Even if you block it, and it rolls around for a little bit, the game could end on that play alone. The punter got the ball of really fast and it did not go very far, so a fair catch at least gives you one more play, and you can send all 10 guys since you do not have to block anyone during the fair catch.
It was a very good game all around. NDSU would be a good addition to the MWC or PACWhatever
It was definitely cool... nevertheless we shouldn't schedule them (or any Dakota/Montana teams) ever again.
It is kind of funny watching all the Reddit praise for NDSU, and how they should be FCS, and would probably beat most teams they play (fair), but I’ll bet you not a damn one of them realize they lost to CU this year.
But if we had lost, then they would have had a field day.
Yup
No question that NDSU (or Montana State for that matter) could compete in the MWC/ NewPAC but why would they want to.
The best they could hope for, and it would be hard and expensive to maintain, would be to compare to Boise. They would be competing to be the best of the also rans, the have nots.
Boise this year had one of their best teams including a generation running back and it got them a shot at being run over by the real elites in the playoff. In most years Boise is going to end up arguing that they deserve more recognition and a trip to a second rate bowl game that the nation pays little attention to.
NDSU gets as much recognition for what they are doing as Boise gets, and they get to enjoy winning. They play in a conference with a bunch of similar schools where their fans can easily travel. The face very little of the concern about the future that G5 level BCS schools face.
They are good enough to get to play some games against P4 teams like Colorado and have even won some of them.
Realistically it would make much more sense for schools like Wyoming, and yes Colorado State to honestly look at their levels of support and commitment and decide if they would be better off as a big fish in a smaller pond or a sucker in a bigger lake with aspirations of going into the ocean where they would simply be a baitfish.
MWC - heck, even the new Pac - would elevate its football if NDSU, SDSU & Montana State moved up to join the conference.
NDSU took a 9 win CU team to the brink in Boulder. They would have likely made a bowl in the Big 12, had they had CU’s schedule