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I am also glad to see a 2 home and 2 away for each team, but do not understang why UND is going back to Davis and USD is goin back to SLO next season. It seems the logical choice would have been UND @ CP, UCD @ UND, CP @ USD and USD @ UCD.

I did not see Freund play, but I did see Sheppard and I was really impressed with him and was surprised that he was not at least HM.

Cal Poly beats UC Davis 51-28 to take the GWFC title.

Cal Poly beat Idaho State 49-10 in a game played in the rain. Cal Poly only threw the ball 13 times and rushed for 459 yards (averaged over 10 yards per carry). Cal Poly had 557 total yards compared to 278 for Idaho State.

Cal Poly's next home game against Southern Utah (in three weeks) is already sold out.

If Cal Poly keeps winning I would expect sell outs for their last four home games. There were no students in school when Cal Poly played Montana.

Nice win by the Sioux. Even more impressive that you had a short week and ISU had a bye last week. Good luck in Louisiana.

Cal Poly will not schedule a DII game. It does them no good win or lose. I can see Cal Poly going to the NCAA and showing them that they have tried to schedule a counter (DI) game to fill in the hole left by hurricane IKE and they can find no takers. They can show that UND is a top 40 FCS team and ask for an exemption from their non-counter status. The NCAA is usually not very flexable, but who knows. I would like to see a game with UND.

Here is my feeling of the Great West Conference as an All-Sport conference. I think that it is good in that it adds stability to are two new football members, UND and USD, during their transition which I hope adds stability the the football part of the conference. What I wish is that they would have given it a different name. The Great American Conference sounds more fitting. The Great West Football Conference has built a great name for itself in the FCS community. I do not see being associated with New Jersey Institute of Technology and the University of Texas Pan Am as a benifit to the football conference. What would it hurt UND if they were in the GWFC for football and the Great American Conference for the rest of their programs?

I am really glad that UND joined the GWFC, now the GWC. I am disappointed that the GWC voided the game with Cal Poly. I am looking forward to playing the Sioux in 2009. Good luck this season.

I believe that UND will play at Cal Poly in 2009 and 2011. Cal Poly will travel to UND in 2010. This is how I think that the GWFC schedule will be in 2009: Cal Poly Home: North Dakota and South Dakota Away: UC Davis and Southern Utah North Dakota Home: South Dakota and UC Davis Away: Cal Poly and Southern Utah South Dakota Home: Southern Utah and UC Davis Away: North Dakota and Cal Poly UC Davis Home: Cal Poly and Southern Utah Away: North Dakota and South Dakota Southern Utah Home: Cal Poly and North Dakota Away: South Dakota and UC Davis

How would you know that? He coached at Northeastern and Texas State (and played at Texas State), both of which are DI. Sounds to me that he has Texas recruiting ties, which is big. Just ask your friends over on the Bison message boards.

If it helps, South Dakota State came out of their transition a stronger FCS teams than they were as a DII team. Hopefully the same will happen for USD.

Someone like a ranked Northern Iowa team on the road?

I agree. After this year, I think they will know who you are.

Any Given Saturday Poll Top 25 PRE-SEASON 5/26/2008 (First place votes in parenthesis) 1. Appalachian St. (76) 2. James Madison (2) 3. Richmond (1) 4. North Dakota St. (2) 5. Northern Iowa 6. Massachusetts 7. Montana 8. McNeese St. 9. Eastern Washington 10. Wofford 11. Delaware 12. Southern Illinois 13. Cal Poly (1) 14. Youngstown St. 15. Elon 16. Georgia Southern 17. Villanova 18. South Dakota St. 19. Eastern Illinois 20. New Hampshire 21. The Citadel 22. Eastern Kentucky 23. Fordham 24. Yale 25. Furman Others receiving votes (minimum of 5 votes): Harvard (33), Sam Houston St. (31), Delaware St. (29), Northern Arizona (27), Central Arkansas (24), Montana St. (24), Jackson St. (23), South Carolina St. (22), Jacksonville St. (18), Grambling St. (16), Liberty (16), Holy Cross (14), Western Illinois (13), Albany (12), Hofstra (12), Dayton (10), Hampton (10), Nicholls St. (7), Coastal Carolina (5), Colgate (5), Norfolk St. (5) TEAM MOST ON THE RISE: Cal Poly TEAM FALLING THE MOST: Delaware

USD released their 2008 and 2009 schedules. While their 2008 schedule is nothing to write home about, their 2009 schedule is looking good. USD's 2009 schedule: Home: McNeese State, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern Utah, UC Davis, West Texas A&M and William Penn Away: Cal Poly, North Dakota, Northern Colorado and Northern Iowa. Link: http://www.usdcoyotes.com/sports/football/...release_id=4432 I'll bet UND's 2009 schedule will look good too. Big difference scheduling as a counter to FCS teams.

Cal Poly was breaking in their new triple option offense and new QB and had 7 fumbles (5 lost). Two fumbles were in the red zone (one at the 6 yard line) and another was inside Cal Poly's 15 yard line setting up one of Idaho's touchdowns, and a third was on a short field goal attempt by Cal Poly. I think that UND will be able to do what Cal Poly fumbled away, and that is beat Idaho. Congrats on signing your first FBS games.

Not to mention families with the kids that are involved in youth sports that play their games on Saturday afternoons.

It is official. UND official press release: http://www.fightingsioux.com/ViewArticle.d...;ATCLID=1403425

As a fan I always like to see them redshirt incoming freshmen. By playing as a true freshman, they are trading what is usually their least productive year for what should be their most productive year (5th year).

While you are right about not being a bowl counter until the third year (need to have averaged 57 scholarships over the last 2 seasons), that does not mean they will not get a FBS game until then. UC Davis played and beat Stanford when they were in transition and were not a bowl counter. It will be harder, but not impossible.

Bison Kent, you are putting a green and gold rosey spin on it. Of the four DI playoff eligible teams on the Bison home schedule the first year, the only one they deserve credit for scheduling is Northwestern State. Cal Poly and Southern Utah were conference games and Valpo was a very bad team that would be soundly beat by most of the teams on UND's home schedule. Saying that Valpo was DI playoff eligible is like saying you could be president. Technically correct, but it will never happen.

Cal Poly has 11 games under contract and is negotiating for a 12th.

For what UND was facing, I think that they did well. UND is in a tough spot this year. They do not count as a DI game for FCS teams and good DII teams do not want to play them because UND was a top DII team before they got the additional scholarships. I think that the fans need to look at this as if they would have been happy with this schedule as a DII team. I think most people would say yes. Next year is the first year that UND will count as a DI team on FCS teams schedules. I think next year you will see a vast improvement in the schedule. BTW, Southern Utah is not your typical 0-11 team. SUU faced probably the toughest schedule in the FCS last year. They played 8 or 9 ranked FCS teams and a UND last year. They almost pulled out a couple wins against some of the ranked teams, Youngstown State being one of them. They were a young team and they have a new head coach this year. I expect that they will be very much improved after facing such tough competition last year.