2025 UND football

[CMSioux]

8 hours ago, Wildfan said:

That actually hurts us. Believe he has to excuse himself from that conversation when it comes to discussion between them being in or out if it came down to 2 teams. No MVFC opinion on the matter.

No voice is probably better than having an SU voice in the room with motivation to hurt us.

[Oxbow6]

Who's starting the 2026 season thread at noon? @Cratter??

[gfhockey]

We will see how Will Chavez is eespected todsy

[Dustin]

I’m prepared to get raked over the coals, but how far would Freund and Schuster gotten with Schmidt’s defense??

[The Sicatoka]

Sagarin 5

Massey 6

Only team to come within a touchdown of the yellow menace. 

[Und Princess]

2 hours ago, Oxbow6 said:

Who's starting the 2026 season thread at noon? @Cratter??

I could!!! But we have to wait to see if we make the national tournament.

[gfhockey]

4 minutes ago, Und Princess said:

I could!!! But we have to wait to see if we make the national tournament.

Please do. And a blog please

[Oxbow6]

The red zone play calling and execution this season is easily the worst I've seen on any level of football....ever.

[Shawn-O]

27 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

Sagarin 5

Massey 6

Only team to come within a touchdown of the yellow menace. 

7 wins isn’t going to do it this year.  New Hampshire and Lamar get in. 

[Oxbow6]

How much did UND get paid to take the L at K State? 

[Shawn-O]

6 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

How much did UND get paid to take the L at K State? 

475k

[Oxbow6]

4 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:

475k

Trying to figure out if a FBS loss with a check and missing the playoffs every year is better than another FCS win, a home playoff game and some needed juice for this program?

[The Sicatoka]

18 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:

7 wins isn’t going to do it this year.  New Hampshire and Lamar get in. 

UND would have that eighth win if they'd have played Bryant or Campbell (UNH) or Texas Southern or East Texas A&M (Lamar). 

Instead it was FBS Kansas State. 

Should've played Tenn State and The Citadel I guess.  

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

What time is the selection show?

[Sodbuster]

1 minute ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

What time is the selection show?

11:00 AM

[UND-FB-FAN]

2 minutes ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

What time is the selection show?

11 AM 

Torn on whether or not to watch

going 0-4 versus Dakota schools and Montana will do that

but 2025 squad might get another a chance to play a game and subsequently wreak havoc on the tournament bracket… we’ll see 

either way, 2026 is the revenge tour as far as I’m concerned … f ndsu, f South Dakota, f South Dakota st 

[Wilbur]

2 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Trying to figure out if a FBS loss with a check and missing the playoffs every year is better than another FCS win, a home playoff game and some needed juice for this program?

Valpo, Drake, Tennessee State, St. Thomas....every year....4-0 before you get to the MVFC. 

[The Sicatoka]

2 minutes ago, SuhakiYeahYeah said:

What time is the selection show?

11 Central on The U

[UND-FB-FAN]

Just now, Wilbur said:

Valpo, Drake, Tennessee State, St. Thomas....every year....4-0 before you get to the MVFC. 

Or just rise up to the competition and beat the f’n Dakota schools … everything we want is on the other side of them

[Shawn-O]

4 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

UND would have that eighth win if they'd have played Bryant or Campbell (UNH) or Texas Southern or East Texas A&M (Lamar). 

Instead it was FBS Kansas State. 

Should've played Tenn State and The Citadel I guess.  

Here’s some precedent. They didn’t make it. 
https://lionsports.net/sports/football/schedule/2024

[gfhockey]

5 minutes ago, Oxbow6 said:

Trying to figure out if a FBS loss with a check and missing the playoffs every year is better than another FCS win, a home playoff game and some needed juice for this program?

Gotta balance the budget

[SuhakiYeahYeah]

Sam Herder:

Who gets the last couple of Top 16 seeds, and who the last teams in will be fascinating. I think it's between 8-4 UNH and 7-5 UND for the last bid. I went with UND due to:

 

-Currently-ranked wins:

UND 2

UNH 1

 

-SOS:

UND No. 1

UNH No. 49

 

-Massey rating (committee uses this metric):

UND No. 6

UNH No. 28

 

-Performances in losses (committee values eye test):

 

UND lost by 3 to P4 K-State, by 1 to Top 5 Montana, by 5 to ranked USD, by 5 to No. 1 NDSU, and by 3 to ranked SDSU

 

UNH lost by 5 to G5 Ball State, by 7 to unranked Dartmouth, by 30 to ranked Nova, by 11 to ranked Rhody

 

Quality wins, SOS, computer rankings, and eye test all point to UND. But what makes sense to me may not make sense to individual committee members during the voting process

 

UNH has the edge in that it's on a 5-game winning streak. UND has lost 3 of its last 4. But again, SOS has mattered to the committee in past seasons

[Oxbow6]

Just now, gfhockey said:

Gotta balance the budget

The NDSU home game wasn't a sellout.....that tells you where this program's fan base is at. Put a product on the field each year that at a minimum gets to the playoffs vs sh!@#ing the bed and there will be increased revenue. 

[The Sicatoka]

3 minutes ago, Shawn-O said:

Here’s some precedent. They didn’t make it. 
https://lionsports.net/sports/football/schedule/2024

They didn't beat a ranked team. Did they beat a playoff team? 

[Shawn-O]

5 minutes ago, The Sicatoka said:

11 Central on The U

I’m riding with these guys today. 
https://youtube.com/@fansnationnetwork?si=GX7Re3JhZrJ4bZzH

they actually care about the FCS