SHAME SHAME all you losers to lazy to give a thumbs up or leave a comment. GO IRISH> MKL

ND will be up for Ohio watch and learn. GO IRISH. MKL

I’m going miss you we have to win it all man 😢

Why would a consistent high level of play be bad for college football? 18 national championships since 1964. A championship every 3.4 years. Everyone aspires to be like them. They could play almost every FBS program right now. They've beaten Kansas State... Iowa... Iowa State... Minnesota twice... Kansas... Colorado State... and others... all at their house.

I want to wish Will and the Buckeyes good luck Monday night! Bring home a Natty!

A FBS conference has to invite NDSU. The Bison have never been invited while teams they repeatedly beat do get invited. Nobody in the Big 10, Big 12, or even the Mountain West want to travel to Fargo, ND. I believe the Bison would find the money to move up if they received an invitation.

How do we always have these press conferences and can't hear the Question??? Smh!!!!

Kyle Mccord full circle!! Will is playing in this game and you're not!!!! Go Bucks!!!

Have the game of your life, kid.

I am a North Dakota fan, and I appreciate your analysis of the situation. North Dakota State has no more advantage over other FCS programs, we just train and coach and support our program. Time to put your big boy pants on FCS competition.

Go Buckeyes! O-H

Ohio state 56 dame 21

Lost me at "both teams have multiple paths to victory" ND has a punchers chance but a VERY narrow path to win.

Boy if didn’t get hurt

I thought about this this year. IMO if both Army and Navy are undefeated or very close the winner of the army Navy game should get an auto bid.

Love the jackrabbit sandwich comment. 😂

Wish the Steelers would hire him 🙏

The FBS doesnt need to grow, and the FCS doesnt need to shrink any more. The FCS is pretty small. They would benefit from having some FBS programs that really don't need to be in the FBS.

If we can’t play in the fbs explain how we have beet multiple big12/10 teams and ranked teams

People don’t understand how expensive it is to move up

Good analysis, however, NDSU does want to move to FBS. They need a conference invitation and unfortunately cant just move up

It’s not NDSU choice they have to be invited.

While I'd love to see my state have an FBS team, NDSU doesn't have the $$$ to make the move.

We want to move, but need an invite. We've been hammer the Mountain West for one, but apparently there are ADs that don't want us a part of their conference. Regarding being "forced," that's not how it works.

James Madison and Georgia Southern both moved up. Have you heard from them lately? JM had an outstanding year and went to the Boca bowl, nobody watched it. Ask yourself this. Would you rather compete for a national championship or would you rather compete for the muffler bowl on a Thursday in December in Detroit? The top 3 programs lost their QB this year, I think the FCS will be wider open next year more than it has been in awhile.

This young Man will be a Head Coach one Day

NDSU wants to move, it's just that no FBS conference wants them at this point

Ten years ago this was a valid question. Since then several teams have put in the effort to compete with the Bison and FCS has overall has improved their play to compete with them. The Jacks grabbed a couple of titles, the Griz knocked them off last year and both the Jacks and the Bobcats gave them all they could handle this year. Other teams are looking at what these folks have done and upping their game. This is good for FCS overall.

Lou Holtz is scalp hunting next Monday

Soft

0-4 vs Michigan

You have an excellent voice, would love to hear it commentating or continuing to cover sports in another way

I'd like to see them move up, but only if the other Dakota schools come with them.

I think at this point its time for NDSU to finally move up when u consider most of their FCS peers have already moved up. The only schools left in the FCS that are competitive competition are SDSU & the Montana schools (& maybe Idaho if they don't fall off after Eck left them). Playoff foes like Sam Houston, James Madison, Delaware, Jacksonville State, & older FCS powers like App State & Georgia Southern have all moved up where NDSU now practically has a cake walk to at the very least the quarterfinals at worst. It's gotten to a point where Missouri State who was also in the same conference as NDSU are now moving up while NDSU stays FCS. North Dakota State has the resources & facilities to compete right away in the MAC or the new Mountain West.

NDSU should be in the Big 10 if they move to the FBS at all. They should aspire to nothing less than that. The problem is that the blue-bloods in that conference do not want them there. It has nothing to do with market value and everything to do with competition level. NDSU has proven it can hang with FBS schools and even beat them -- on the road no less! Ohio State (and I love me some Buckeyes), Michigan, and Penn State do not want that smoke. Not when you also have added Oregon, USC, Washington, and UCLA to an already deep and highly competitive conference. As it is, I don't see teams like Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame, or other top tier programs going after the top teams in the FCS when booking FCS opponents. That's because they know that there's a good chance that they could get knocked off and a loss to what is viewed by the press as a lesser tier program will hurt their national title chances. That's the main reason what teams like the Citadel, Grambling, Florida A&M, Mercer, and mid-to-low tier FCS teams wind up on their schedules. These teams rarely book low-end FBS teams if they can avoid it because they don't want that on their resume if it can be avoided. Most of this talk about being bad for college football is only coming up now because an SEC team isn't running the table because for the most part, the SEC and their fans had been dominant in FBS football for the last decade or so. That's not true any longer and since it isn't when comparing their situation to NDSU it seems "unfair"? NDSU built their program and they aren't attracting 5-star recruits or paying them a ton of NIL money to come to their schools (as far as I know). They just play good football in a fairly strong conference (MVFC) in their division. That they've run off a bunch of other schools in that time (who've chosen to chase money over competition) is a side-effect. I do thing that eventually NDSU will move to FBS but when they do, it will be at a time and place of their choosing. And I think they will be competitive when they do from the start.

I seldom hear about FCS, D2 and D3 teams in national broadcasts or major channels. Subbed!

I'm an FBS fan but it's just embarrassing to me that they're trying to pretend like the FCS playoffs is a fair competition. The Dakota and Montana schools are FBS level programs with tons of fan support and resources that operate closer to P4s than most G5s. Between the 4 of them we all know the national title is not going to anyone outside that group every year. We could take any P4 team down to the FCS and they'd win a national title every year, they technically would "earn" it but it doesn't mean they deserve it. That's exactly what's happening here. The Moutain West or somebody really needs to find a way to get them into the FBS because they have good fan support and would draw in good viewership.

I guess it’s bad for you if you get beat by them! Up to you to do something about it!😱

NDSU’s success has made every team in the MVFC better.

ndsu could go to the MAC, C-USA or the MWC (post PAC Exodus). None of those conferences' top 3 teams are better than the top 3 of the MVFC. So conference play wouldn't be much different. What would be different is a lack of post season. G6 doesn't really have a meaningful post season. Either you go to the FBS playoffs and get completely destroyed, or you go to a meaningless bowl game. No thanks. If NDSU had enough revenue and media market, I'd be in favor of moving to the PAC or Big 12...but they will never want NDSU. The American sounds kind of interesting, but travel would stink. Travel to Hawaii in the MWC would stink even more.

Awesome assessment! They are excellent for FCS football. First without them would FCS even be on the map or in the discussion. Second would Montana St be satisfied winning the FCS title knowing yeah we won but NDSU is no longer in it, so what did we really win. The challenge is for the other schools to raise their own bar of excellence to meet or beat the Bison at their own game. Only 1 gets to hoist and house the trophy. I would only want to do that if I beat the best!!!

Bring some FBS back to FCS... Military Veteran 71 🪖🎖️

Until the Bison are invited up to the FBS, they will dominate the FCS. They are loaded for next year and will win it again.

First off I've been a Bison fan for 50 years +. First & foremost they do want to move to the FBS. In order for that to happen, they have to be invited to join an FCS conference. There has been talk a few different times, most recently the Mountain West. So far nothing has come to fruition. They have plenty of money with a booster group that contributes more money annually than most G5 teams. Without question they can compete with most G5 schools on the field. They are 6-2 against P4 teams in recent years. The problem is and has been that they play in a small media market and thats about it BUT that is a significant issue when it comes to the FBS conferences. That generates a massive amount of TV money and would be pretty iffy in Fargo. We play in an 18,000 dome and have a brand new practice facility that would rival any that are out there.

I hope they stay. I can afford to go to FCS games. Bruce

Can you just announce your school is moving up to such and such a conference? I think the 'horse that pulls the cart' has to be a conference that wants you to join. So far, as far as I know, no FBS conference has issued an invite.

Natch for mountain West but and independent NightMare

Lock stock and 2 smokin barrels

Your analysis is absolutely spot on. Consider that some of NDSU's stoutest opponents are located within a few hundred miles of Fargo, ND. N.D. is the home of ~780 thousand people and has a budget of ~$7 billion. FBS football is not a good fit for N.D. I'm no expert but to me, it looks like NDSU is locked and loaded for another dominating season in 2025-26.

If you look at the football budgets of power 4 teams vs. NDSU, it is mind-blowing. The money generating apparatus does not exist in a low population density, small tv market like Fargo. They could never sustain the funding to continuously compete against the Power4 conferences.