It appears there is probably only really about 7 names under consideration:
Explorers
Hawks (listed 3 times)
Force
North Stars
Roughriders (Cavalry is basically a duplicate)
Spirit
Sundogs
They have to know if Roughriders is on the finals for vote, it wins in a landslide.
So do they purposely leave it off?
Seems like they want a hawk, spirit or force, and that leaves only one slot left: North Stars?
Pretty sad that when this started the SS community knew Force, Spirit, and Sundogs were the favorites to be (some of) the finalists....and here we are.
Haks legacy is he was a good coach. His teams often "overachieved," had good "second half runs," good in NCAA regionals, but always laid eggs in the semifinals.
I'd be very surprised if Game day went to a FCS school 3 years in a row.
Not much left to talk about. I don't see it happening. No "NDSU just beat a FBS team again" talk this year.
But itd would be cool if it did.