Dustin

The good thing is that we have many scoring plays that originate outside of the red zone.

http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football/top-25-rankings Not sure if anyone has posted this yet. UND at #14. “UND (5-2) is hot right now, winning three in a row. Weber State visits in what might be their final major test before the playoffs.”

http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football/bracketology UND hosts UNI in the first round, winner to play NDSU.

http://www.fcs.football/cfb/polls.asp?div=fcs UND at #22. Weber St. at #4. SHSU at #23. Montana and Idaho St. receiving votes.

Agreed. I’d say 9-2 would be enough for a seed, but that’s just my Kelly green glasses.

With each week, I am feeling that this is going to happen.

http://www.fcs.football/cfb/story.asp?i=20181016095048548571304&ref=rec&tm=308&src=CFB This is last week's bracketology from STATS that I don't believe anyone posted. It has UNI coming to Grand Forks, with the winner going to Brookings. I expect that to change once new predictions come out this week.

In addition to UND being #16, I also noticed that UNI's win is getting a lot of love from the pollsters. They're up to #11.

"11. FCS Independents – With each week, North Dakota is looking more like a playoff team."

When you look at it this way, I feel quite confident that UND will be able to put up at least that many points. And if Weber's offense is their weakness, I would tend to agree that UND's defense could hold them to just a few scoring opportunities.

Don't know much about Weber State, other than that they are ranked highly in the polls - is their defensive strength the run game or the passing game? What kind of offensive scheme will Rudy need to keep Weber's defense off-balance?

So it sounds like a defensive score would be a key to winning the game.

Other than FBS Washington, yes.

Should have gotten mine in sooner, that’s the score I was going with! I’ll tack on a touchdown and go 38-14.

May as well burn it - this team can go places, and you should put people in a position to succeed.

No question these are my favorite Sioux jerseys of all time.

In 2016, I think it was actually a little bit of a curse being seeded and having the first round playoff bye. Our bye week that year was also the last week of the season, so we had three weeks in between football games. I think we would have done better playing a home first-round game to get our feet wet, and then go from there. This year, with our bye week in the middle of the season, I don't see any reason to not want a seed. A seed is so beneficial (or at least can be) to teams because they get a bye after a long season, and then a home playoff game.

I'm sure I could look it up myself, but is that 4 regular season games, or 4 games total?

Such a nice weapon to have in the arsenal. I'm sure they'll be a team with a defensive line that it won't work against, but for now it keeps drives rolling and scores touchdowns.

With what I saw on Saturday, 8-3 should be very doable. 9-2 isn't out of the question, either.

http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/16675 #19 here http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/fcs-football/bracketology First round playoff @ E. Washington; winner to travel to NDSU

A game like this can give a team a lot of swagger. Do (just about) everything the right way, win big, and forge on trying to play that exact same way.

https://m.herosports.com/fcs/football-top-25-poll-week-8-bzbz this was posted over in the 2018 Season thread, but since it a poll, I though I would put it here as well.

I thought the same thing. Will Holm’s play be a defining moment in the history of UND football, like mooney’s was? I hope so.

Her setter dumps are useless.