Bison06

You're logic leaps never cease to amaze me Darrel.

I'm not saying Mizzou is the '85 bears, but since joining the SEC in 2011 they've only given up 43 or more points 4 other times. I'm not trying to make Missouri state out to be amazing either, but for a team like MSU to put up 43 points on an SEC defense is impressive to me. We'll see how it translates the rest of the season for them.

It's still the SEC man, the level of athlete they have access to exceeds any FCS program by an astronomical amount. Defense isn't all about athleticism, but winning one on one matchups is and sometimes scheme and coaching simply can't overcome a guy that can flat out beat you. 43 points against an SEC team not names Vanderbilt is impressive in my book for an FCS team.

I'm assuming by your name that your a Utah fan. Utah is used to playing P5 teams so it may not seem like much to you, but an FCS team putting up 43 points on an SEC team is impressive regardless of how good that defense is.

Stats definitely don't tell the entire story every time, I figured it was something that wasn't showing up in the stat line that impressed a lot of people who watched the game.

At the risk of sounding like a "hater" or a wet blanket, I've been seeing a lot of posts this week heaping praise on Studsrud for his performance in the Utah game. For the record, I was only able to follow the game on my phone and didn't see him play, but can someone explain to me what about his performance in this game impressed you. Looking at his stat line, he performed well below his season averages from a year ago which was a season that most UND fans felt Studsrud needed to improve upon this year for UND to be successful. As I said, I didn't see the game, but I'm slightly confused as to why his game Thursday night is being viewed as an obvious positive. http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/keaton-studsrud-player-stats

All those UND grads that move down for the good jobs do really bring the narcissism levels up.

Doing my absolute best to be completely objective, on any given year Iowa and Utah are actually very comparable, with Utah likely having a slight advantage in terms of skill position players.

Iowa wasn't a top 15 team, agreed. Bison overrated? Agree to disagree. Lost to the champion in the national semifinals and beat the other team who made it to the championship, I pretty easy argument to make for NDSU being the #2 team in the country last year.

I couldn't agree more, I'm just saying it's way too early to be making any statements like the OP did. For the record I believe that Iowa team was in the top 15 heading into that game if I remember correctly.

I'm not even debating if it's true or not, but there is absolutely no way to know right now how good that Utah team you guys played last night is or will end up. Without letting the season play out any comments like the one I quoted above are strictly self serving and only made to make the OP feel better about a loss. Maybe Utah is a top 10 team, maybe they don't win another game this year. Beating an FCS team by 3 scores isn't proof of anything, can we agree on that? Let the season play out at least a little before saying that Utah team is the best FBS team either NDSU or UND has ever played and would beat the best FCS team of all time(arguably). Fair?

Question asked...question answered. What's your issue? Do you disagree with my answer?

It'll be hard to say until the season is over and you're able to see how good this Utah team is this year, but If they end up outside of the top 25 by a large margin it might be fair to have a conversation about either the 2014 EWU team or the 2015 NDSU team being better as UND opponents.

It seems like you missed the point of his post.

I've said this before and it definitely applies here, FCS wins over FBS teams are about styles of play. It's rare that the FCS team can line up and play "strength on strength" with an FBS team and come away with a victory. NDSU's wins over Iowa and K-state were rare examples of an FCS team physically beating the FBS team and both of those wins surprised me. All of the above being true IMO, this is a stylistically tough matchup for UND. UND's strengths from what I've seen are running the ball and stopping the run. UND, I believe, will have a lot of trouble consistently gaining yards on the ground on this stout front line of Utah and on the other side of the ball, I believe Utah will be able to avoid the strength of UND's defense by picking on your corners without your all American out there. I think it'll be a tough day for UND. Utah-40+ UND-10-14

The NCAA verbiage you quoted seems slightly contradictory. Is it one full competitive season of eligibility lost or one full calendar year, it says both but it can't be both in this case. Very confusing.

Well played sir.

Other phones may have this feature, but for sure if you have an iPhone. Start a group text with all pertinent parties and go to the upper right corner to the "i" icon, click on it and share your location in the text thread and their GPS will bring them directly to your location.

Yikes. Amazing what a difference proper leadership can make isn't it?

That definitely would've challenged my personal rule to have to sit through that if I were in your shoes.

I'm the same way. Maybe it's just my frugal nature, but once I've payed for something I'm staying the whole time. I've sat through some pretty awful movies over the years because I refuse to leave early. Batman vs. Superman is the latest 2 hours of my life I'll never get back.

As sports "fanatics", I think we at times underestimate how many people go to sporting events for the social aspect of it. It happens everywhere. Went to Norman, OK last year when they played Ohio St and our section was packed at the beginning and at least 1/4 of those people left at the end of the 3rd quarter.

That's exactly where they finished last year in the MVFC...