Matt

http://www.news-leader.com/story/sports/college/msu/2014/09/07/bears-now-able-focus-home-opener/15264673/ Two things: 1) they moved the ball vs OSU 2) this isn't an ordinary home game for them

We knew they wouldn't be great in conference, but there's a world of difference between being a 5 or 6 win BSC team and being a 7 or 8 win NEC team.

With that O, I think they will have enough D to win it all.

Disappointing. Seeing they are comparable to RMU doesn't make me feel good about conference play.

I don't think it matters if they do it by committee or with a single rusher. There were only 3 games where they rushed for over 100 yards last year, and one of those was vs Valpo. To me if they go over 100 yards for the game and average 4 yards per carry it will go a long way towards a win.

What does that mean? They rushed for over 100 yds in both games. Are you looking at yards per carry?

You had to be happy with the Pokes this weekend. Gutty performances like that have been few and far between at War Memorial.

Between the UND performance and the Weber performance this weekend, I'm hesitant to anoint "bottom feeder" status just yet. Anyone know if the ac can "officially" take recruits to the gameday set or do they need to leave that to the recruits themselves?

Defense played up to expectations. Nicely done. Offense needs to get their s**t together in a hurry.

The NEC is terrible. When RMU was the conference champion the ac rolled them 43-17, and the ac had 4 conference wins that year. If you can't slap around the patsies on your schedule things are worse than I even thought.

Not me. RMU is a weak team in a weak league. Forget where we are in the BSC for a moment, just on an athlete to athlete basis, if UND can't roll this team at home on potato day I can't imagine what the conference season will be like. 42-13 UND

I make a motion we set a target date of the beginning of fall camp 2015 when we can get past Muss' "brick by brick" and now the "day by day" and move into "the time is now".

The coach was fired after a miserable season and the new coach starts his career by getting blown out. The program hasn't been so low in decades. If you are seeing arrogance at this website, you are coming here with an agenda.

You are not wrong

It will help Montana, as now at least they see what didn't work, but I think it helps the ac more. They will see how Montana will show in both their basic offensive and defensive approach. They can design alignment calls based on down/distance, formation, etc. Hopefully Montana brings out a bunch of new looks they haven't shown this year or last year on film.

Absolutely. But we know what we've got at #1 and #2. Haven't seen anything else at that level yet. I've seen all I need to see out of SELA, CC, and NH. Montana will tell me a lot in a few weeks. Do you have a dark horse?

If UNI can manage to beat the ac and get home field, they will have a shot. We will see where Montana stands when they go to Fargo in a few weeks. I don't see the rest of the top ten near the level of eastern and the ac. Barring injuries, they seem to be on a collision course to Frisco.

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfoot2/misc/tsn-div-1aa-poll.htm The Sports Network FCS Top-25 College Football Poll Team (First-place votes) Record Points Previous Rank 1. North Dakota State Bison (93) 1-0 3,830 2 2. Eastern Washington Eagles (63) 2-0 3,804 1 3. Southeastern Louisiana Lions 1-0 3,553 3 4. Montana Grizzlies 0-1 3,064 5 5. Coastal Carolina Chanticleers 1-0 3,028 7 6. New Hampshire Wildcats 0-1 2,998 4 7. McNeese State Cowboys 0-0 2,661 8 8. Northern Iowa Panthers 0-1 2,634 9 9. Jacksonville State Gamecocks 0-1 2,580 6 10. Villanova Wildcats 0-1 2,488 12 11. Fordham Rams 1-0 2,423 11 12. South Dakota State Jackrabbits 0-1 2,242 10 13. Chattanooga Mocs 0-1 1,793 14 14. Tennessee State Tigers 1-0 1,701 15 15. Sam Houston State Bearkats 1-1 1,484 17 16. Eastern Illinois Panthers 0-1 1,402 16 17. Richmond Spiders 1-0 1,323 20 18. Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 1-0 1,109 22 19. Furman Paladins 1-0 1,004 21 20. Montana State Bobcats 0-1 965 18 21. William & Mary Tribe 0-1 945 19 22. Towson Tigers 0-1 829 13 23. Youngstown State Penguins 0-1 540 24 24. Maine Black Bears 1-0 469 25 25. Northern Arizona Lumberjacks 0-1 352 23 Others receiving votes: Southern Illinois 323, South Carolina State 176, Liberty 141, Central Arkansas 126, Central Connecticut State 107, Wofford 94, Princeton 64, Samford 62, Cal Poly 54, Delaware 44, Harvard 42, James Madison 37, Southern Utah 37, Charleston Southern 23, Gardner-Webb 19, Missouri State 15, Alcorn State 13, Sacred Heart 12, North Carolina A&T 12, Stephen F. Austin 11, Southern 10, Alabama State 9, Illinois State 9, Eastern Kentucky 8, Lehigh 7, Southeast Missouri State 7, Western Illinois 6, Duquesne 3, Bryant 2, Norfolk State 2, San Diego 1, Sacramento State 1, Indiana State 1, Murray State 1

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls?poll=7 FCS Coaches Poll (I-AA): Week 2 Week:PreseasonBowls/Postseason Records through Sun Aug 31, 2014 FCS Coaches Poll (I-AA) Ranking Rank Team Record Pts Last Week 1. N. Dak. St. (24) 1-0 647 1 2. Eastern Wash. (2) 2-0 626 2 3. SE Louisiana 1-0 598 3 4. Coastal Car. 1-0 540 6 5. Montana 0-1 495 5 6. McNeese St. 0-0 452 9 7. Villanova 0-1 445 13 8. New Hampshire 0-1 426 4 9. Jacksonville St. 0-1 413 8 10. Fordham 1-0 360 12 11. S. Dakota St. 0-1 341 10 12. Northern Iowa 0-1 327 15 13. Sam Houston St. 1-1 323 14 14. Eastern Illinois 0-1 289 11 15. Chattanooga 0-1 278 16 16. Tennessee St. 1-0 234 17 17. Furman 1-0 229 18 18. Bethune-Cookman 1-0 216 23 19. Towson 0-1 193 7 20. Richmond 1-0 174 24 21. Youngstown St. 0-1 147 21 22. Maine 1-0 144 20 23. Montana St. 0-1 128 19 24. William & Mary 0-1 80 22 25. Southern Ill. 1-0 49 NR Others Receiving Votes: Central Arkansas 38, Northern Arizona 35, Liberty 25, Missouri St. 24, S. Carolina St. 23, Wofford 20, Southern Utah 19, Samford 15, Central Conn. St. 13, Princeton 11, E. Kentucky 10, Bryant 10, Cal Poly 8, Harvard 7, Alcorn St. 7, Abilene Christian 7, Charleston Sou. 5, Sacramento St. 4, Jackson St. 4, Lehigh 4, Western Ill. 3, James Madison 2, N.C. A&T 1, Delaware 1

It could also be argued that the refusal of UND to move up with ndsu paved the way for the level of success they are seeing today. Up until the move up, UND was a legitimate competitor for corporate dollars, recruits, and on the field. By not moving up UND let the ac run roughshod over the entire state and region. Then to make matters worse, the ac takes those tools and builds a dynasty and now UND is in a position where they not only are competing for resources with the ac, but the ac has firmly entrenched themselves on the high ground and UND is left to storm the hill. Kupchella had such a terrible experience with the d-1 transition when he was in Missouri, I suspect he believed the dakota schools would suffer a similar fate.

Don't do that. He went to a private catholic high school in the cities and the bigs walked away when his grades didn't make the cut. Lapanta on KFAN couldn't say enough good things about him. The ac took a gamble when he had to sit out a year and it paid off. I wish UND would have done the same.

Crockett, Frazier, Morlock...any of them would start here.

I think a big part of the problem is expectations. I have read so much analysis here that bubba has things on the "right track". Now, I believe that bubba will bring the program where it needs to go, but I have seen nothing yet on the bottom line for me to conclude it is on the right track. A good recruiting class? Yeah, I heard that with Muss too. First game was a blowout, so I can take nothing from that. Again, I believe he will get it done but if we can say the program is "on the right track" after what we've seen so far, then the expectations for any FB coach here is far too low.

What could have been... @BadgerFootball: #Badgers ball! Schobert forces an #LSU fumble that Caputo recovers! Wisconsin takes over at Tigers' 31 #TexasKickoff

Wyoming scores on a 58 yard run. Maybe the griz is vulnerable on the ground? 17-6 Wyoming.