Dustin

Is one (or both?!) of the SUs a poser??? May find out tonight.

Yep. A must-win, I'd say. A loss there is a black eye on your resume, and doesn't give you nearly as much breathing room with the SU's coming to town.

Wasn't paying attention to personnel at the end, but assuming the defense was also playing backups, they looked good.

JTJ going down is not what I had in mind.

These reps are much much needed.

Would like to see the next guy (Sulilk?) this quarter too.

safety! my favorite play in football.

Scores from today: ISU-red over USD 21-13. UND needs to win that USD game next week bad. Can't have that loss on the resume. YSU all over Murray 51-17. SIU over UNI 31-17. All good scores for UND, IMO. Only one Valley team will remain undefeated after tonight. Should be a good game, and a nice preview of what it will take for UND to topple the FCS.

How many QBs will we see from here on out? I wouldn't mind seeing all of the backups.

Flemming joining the party.

I'll repeat.

Nice to see Dennis getting some redemption.

Now this is just getting weird.

Nice defense after the fumble.

I guess Leigh should be on the bench more. 😕

On the flip side, no better time to pull out something weird. No consequences.

got the 3 points, but a bit of wasted possession. I thought the spike was unnecessary, since the clock didn't run during the ball spot. then that 3rd & 2 play was pretty bad. Maybe defense can do something yet.

Yeah, I had the thought on that play that if SS had had the ball he would have had a big gain.

Alerus turf appears to be slippery today.

I think Schmidt said on one of the podcasts that statistically you have a better shot of scoring a touchdown on either offense OR defense (if the ball is turned over on downs) when deep in the opponent's territory, so I think that's why they eschewed the FG in that situation. I'd say it paid off, too, since ISU had to punt out of the end zone, yielding excellent field position for UND's next offensive possession, which turned into a touchdown.

Makes sense.

But that’s getting pretty far ahead of ourselves. Need to go 1-0 this week first.

Finishing 10-2 would get us in the 4/5 seed range, I would say.

A one loss XDSU team (assuming the one loss is to UND) would still be enough to put them as a higher seed than us, I would think.

Ok, thanks. So 4 regular season games to preserve eligibility.