Bison06

I already know it’s a rivalry...for the fans. Not sure how much more clear I can be on this subject.

Describe why NDSU and UND football players on the current team have any reason to think this is a rivalry? Nobody on the current team played in the 2015 game and they were all in diapers the last time this game meant something. Rivalry doesn’t just mean “big game”.

Is it a rivalry...I would say it depends on who you ask. Old guys like me who grew up in ND and had people I grew up with, played HS football with and/or against on the opposite sideline, knowing I would see them back home over the holidays and have to hear all about it for a year if we lost. Yeah, that’s a rival to me. But nobody on the current teams has experienced anything near that for almost 20 years. These kids were barely born the last time this game really meant something. Give it a few years and it’ll be back for the players too. But for now, I believe what coach Entz says is genuine, the players just don’t see it as a rivalry yet.

It’s not fair to say you were unhappy with their performance after you said the only acceptable ypc is 0.0? Sorry, not unhappy, just unacceptable. Feel better?

Well, if your initial post wasn’t sarcasm, I sincerely apologize. I took it as such.

Could also be 2015 again. Guess we’ll find out Saturday.

Butler was trash, everybody knows it. Another poster stated he was unhappy with how our defense looked. So I responded with our defensive drives. You somehow think that is me bragging up the performance against a trash team. This isn’t true and you would know that if you had read along as I said.

You obviously weren’t reading along.

Thanks for following along.

So...close losses mean nothing for the team that loses, but close wins somehow mean something for the team that wins? How is that logic reconcilable?

First game of the year with that many new starters? That’s not a realistic expectation against anyone.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/playbyplay?gameId=401127277 Butler drives vs our starters 3 plays for 3 yards punt 4 plays for 14 yards punt 4 plays for 8 yards TOD 3 plays for -1 yard punt 6 plays for -7 yards 3 plays for -12 yards interception 5 plays for 35 yards missed FG Which of those drives concerned you?

How many of those came in the second half?

You’ll definitely get the benefit of the doubt this year from me

Absolutely, and then UNI’s close loss wouldn’t look as impressive This is how college football polls work. This is exactly why everyone on this board cheered for Utah a few years back, it makes your loss look better.

Different circumstances with it being the last game of the year and having a whole season of Drake football as a larger sample size. If Drake takes a ranked Iowa state to triple overtime in week 1 last year, I guarantee you that Drake is ranked the following week in the FCS polls.

We’re too far down this Rabbit hole. Iowa State is a solid program in a P5 conference, not great, solid. UNI taking them to triple overtime is impressive to any objective observer and warrants a jump up in the polls. As others have said, polls are nearly meaningless until after 4-5 weeks, so you calling out ISU as a weak program is not only incorrect, but also completely unnecessary.

Which is true

Which is why I wasn’t making fun of Ames. You’re making fun of Ames as being farm country apparently. Both Fargo and Grand Forks are “farm country”, so you calling out Ames makes no sense from someone who cheers for a ND team. Point is, you thinking Iowa State isn’t a “real” FBS team is comical, when they’ve had much more success than your favorite team lately.

Dude, you cheer for a team in Grand Forks, ND. People in glass houses.

Iowa state has one of the best tailgate scenes in the country. You’re completely clueless

It’s comments like this that make me wonder if some people who comment here even watch college football. They’ve had a much better record against much tougher competition than UND the past few years, so should we ask if UND is really an FCS team? Make fun of them all you like, but Iowa State is a solid team as of late in the fourth or even third best college football conference in the country. They beat #3 Oklahoma a few years back. SMH.

I’ve never understood why this topic is such a sore spot on this board. They took a P5 team to overtime. I’m not sure what UND is currently ranked, but you can be certain that if they take NDSU into overtime this Saturday they’ll make a large jump up in the polls, rightfully so if you ask me.

What could possibly be taken away from yesterday’s game that made you think the D looked worse? By the time Butler had even a hint of success we were rotating backups in and all three levels. And even then, our backups and third and fourth stringers only gave up three points. Not saying they won’t be worse than last years D, but I didn’t see anything but positive from our D yesterday.

Interesting. I wonder what the circumstances of the game were. The typical arrangement is pay for play for FCS schools to travel to FBS schools. Wonder if Yale paid Army to travel to them.