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Hmmm.... I admit that I am the one that did that work in the wiki starting several years ago and just keep adding to it after each season. Which are the discrepencies you found. I'll take a look and fix them. As far as sell outs, 2001 against NDSU, and 2009 against USD are the only official sell outs that I came across.

There are attendance numbers for football going back to 1999 in the Wiki. The all time attendance record was set in 2008, and none of USD, SDSU, NDSU, or UNI visited the Alerus. 2001 was the second best season for attendance, obviously that was the national championship year. We hosted NDSU and SDSU. NDSU was a sell out, SDSU was the lowest attended regular season game of the year. 2007 was the third best attended season in Alerus history. None of USD, SDSU, NDSU, or UNI were in Grand Forks that year. Now most everyone who is here regularly knows I am a big proponent of the Big Sky so I admit I am bias that way. My point is that history shows that it is no guarantee that the former NCC schools being regulars on the schedule would be a boon to attendance. The final game with NDSU in 2003 did not even sell out, and that was another year where we landed in the national championship game. To be blunt, I don't think the potential fans that are in Grand Forks that we are trying to attract are very knowledgeable about college football or probably college athletics in general. For example in 2013, the game against Robert Morris outdrew the game against Montana who was ranked #7 at the time. So no, I don't think "familiar" opponents are going to make a difference. Might as well just table that idea and embrace the Big Sky!

If the NoBowls bracket held true, I'm not quite sure why they wouldn't send San Diego to Cal Poly...........

I agree things are much improved, and they aren't going to change over night. Attendance through 4 games this year is 18% higher than where it was through 4 games last year. That is a wonderful improvement. Attendance was an all time low since moving into the Alerus in 2014, Bubba's first season. Saw an 11% increase in his second year, and another healthy bump so far this year. Things are trending in the right direction. Having said all that though, I fully expect the NAU game to be the lowest attended game of the year, unless we make the playoffs, which that would then be the likely worst attended game of the year. If you look at the last 3 seasons, the final two games have averaged around 30% less in attendance than the first three. The big drop in turnout for Weber St., a clash between unbeaten teams, doesn't give me any hope that the trend of dwindling turnout for late season games is going to change this year.

CollegeSportsMadness bracket also has UND vs SDSU with the winner going to Fargo.

nobowls.com bracket

It has been around 8 years or so since we could seriously talk about North Dakota's position in a playoff bracket before the season ended, so I figured this topic was worthy of its own thread.

Then we need to win out and have EWU stumble, because IF we both finish 8-0, the Sagarin rating will be the tie breaker, giving EWU the autobid. Of course if we finish 8-0 we will obviously be in. l think we are pretty good where we are sitting now, but I'd say one more win guarantees us a spot. Finish strong in these last two games and I still think we have a shot at getting a seed.

Western Illinois over SDSU was the only Top 25 upset this week, so not expecting much movement in the polls..............

Front page of the STATS website............. FCS Top 25: UND still first in Big Sky

Sagarin Ratings 10/30/16 NDSU EWU UNI Jacksonville St. SDSU Youngstown St James Madison Chattanooga Central Arkansas Sam Houston Montana Richmond Citadal Samford Illinois St Charleston Southern Western Illinois Villanova Lehigh Coastal Carolina Northern Arizona Cal Poly Wofford North Dakota Liberty South Dakota New Hampshire North Carolina A&T Princeton Colgate Southern Illinois Harvard Penn Albany Tennessee-Martin Southern Utah Grambling Indiana St Eastern Illinois Stony Brook San Diego Furman Weber St

Sorry if I missed this earlier in the thread, but what the heck was that delay of game penalty we took in the second half? The refs explanation was something g like "disruptive hand signals". That was a new one to me.

UNC wins, improves to 5-3 (3-2).

UNC up 56-49 in OT

Bears and Viks heading to OT

I bet if it weren't for Rudolph, we'd probably be in first place right now........ Oh, wait.......

Tied at 42 in the UNC/PSU game. 10 minutes left

SUU thumps ISU by 25. Northern Colorado leads Portland St 42-35 in the 4th...... EWU wins comfortably over the Griz

SUU up 17-13 on ISU Portland St up 7-3 against Northern Colorado

EWU stomping Montana.....

NAU announced today that Case Cookus will not play again this season......

So to sum up all the polls: STATS: #17 COACHES: #12 ATHLON: #11 COLLEGE SPORTS MADNESS: #15 HERO: #13 AGS: #13

#15 in their "poll", but we are #27 in their "Power Rankings". And the Big Sky is the the 6th highest rated conference.

I agree Reyes is a difference maker when he's available. But he's also missed multiple games in every season he's been here now. Next man up.

What will attendance be for Weber St? So far averaging 10,673 which is 3rd best in the Big Sky. Over or under 10,000................. I am going to be optimistic and say over. Hockey is out of town, the team is on a roll. Hopefully the marketing staff hits it hard this week, battle between unbeatens and all that.