2025 UND football

[iramurphy]

On 11/17/2025 at 9:39 AM, fightingsioux4life said:

We have a sophomore at QB. That almost guarantees growing pains.

We have a good O-line and RBs. We should emphasize the running game.

That would take some of the pressure off of our QB.

But Mr. B1G/NFL (Fruechte) obviously thinks otherwise.

I guess we'll find out this Saturday which one of us is right.

Sophomores at any position, starting all year, should have out grown most of their “pains” by now.

I watched the Ill State-SDSU replay on MidCo. Their OLine is huge and capable of a dominating run game. Mason is a big mobile QB. Odds are they won’t start as poorly as last week. This is playoff FB for both teams. 

We can’t afford turnovers, missed tackles, errant passes, mental errors (players or coaches) and we can’t afford penalties.  We are capable of beating these guys but we need to play our best game of the year. That’s how we close out close games and that’s how we will win. 

[UND-FB-FAN]

3 hours ago, Big Green said:

NFL goes strictly by record, nothing subjective about it.  
 

Even winning you have ADs in a Smokey room so to speak determining seeds and byes.  
 

it’s kind of a joke 

Have you seen 3rd and 4th tier wild card tie-breakers in NFL? 
 

ADs in a Smokey room doesn’t supersede the AQ bids… if you win, it all works out. 

CFB playoff system has its own similar issues. 

Difficult to objectively assess all teams when there’s well over 100 programs per subdivision. 
 

that god damn pairwise with college hockey (far less teams, a completely different sport to compare, with different scheduling complexities ) is not apples to apples comparison …

 but don’t get me wrong, college football playoffs could be improved; seeding the top 16 has been a good start. 

[Siouxperbb32]

7 hours ago, The Sicatoka said:

They say "Untapped" but I think they've been pullin' off the keg a while when they came up with that. 

 

PS - if they assume a UND loss, where's SDSU? 

They been doing something that's for sure and even more puzzling. Ranks UND 10th in current poll and then seeds UND at 20th?🤔🤡

[rochsioux]

18 minutes ago, Siouxperbb32 said:

They been doing something that's for sure and even more puzzling. Ranks UND 10th in current poll and then seeds UND at 20th?🤔🤡

So South Dakota is ranked 16 and gets a 9 seed, UND is ranked 10th and is unseeded? Is almost like they don’t care, just throw something out there. 
If the rationale is based on what they expect for this weekends outcomes then SDSU is finished win or lose. If they win they will be 8-4 with a win over Montana State on the road. Don’t see how they are left out. If they lose then UND is 8-4, don’t see how they aren’t seeded. 

[Dustin]

6 hours ago, Dustin said:

It got a lot better when they took out bidding for home games and seeded 16 teams.

Why the downvote @F'n Hawks?

[Siouxperbb32]

15 minutes ago, rochsioux said:

So South Dakota is ranked 16 and gets a 9 seed, UND is ranked 10th and is unseeded? Is almost like they don’t care, just throw something out there. 
If the rationale is based on what they expect for this weekends outcomes then SDSU is finished win or lose. If they win they will be 8-4 with a win over Montana State on the road. Don’t see how they are left out. If they lose then UND is 8-4, don’t see how they aren’t seeded. 

Ya they are just throwing s_ _ t on a wall n seeing what sticks. I'm still pretty confident UND will be 10-14 range if beat SDSU. Have the strongest SOS and nobody has beaten us by more than 5 included FBS. 3 losses in fcs by 11 total points. Nobody has the quality of losses as us- n ya I hated when UNI always got those but our losses are #1, #2, #16. And for good measure throw in loss to K St for 4 total losses by 14 points

[F'n Hawks]

9 minutes ago, Dustin said:

Why the downvote @F'n Hawks?

My mistake. Meant to upvote. The bidding process was one of the dumbest things of all time