Tone-dog,
The teams I'd like to see if I were a NDSU fan are Georgia Southern, Youngstown St., Delaware, Colgate, and Montana. Since you aren't playing them, then that means your schedule is average right? What's your point--it isn't financially possible to schedule all the best teams.
Everyone,
Enough already about scheduling strong teams in preseason and what it does for you. It does crap. Look at NDSU. What have they won with all these supposed tough games they have scheduled in the past? Nothing--no Conference champions in the last 10 years, no National Champions, and all these tough preseason games did what for them?
UND played some tough (Central Wash.), some really weak teams (Moorhead--NDSU also palyed them, Crookston, etc.) and still did just fine throughout the recent past with success in conference.