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FARGO—North Dakota State will be returning to Minneapolis to play a football game, only it won't be against the University of Minnesota this time. The Bison and Butler University will face each other at Target Field on Aug. 31, 2019.
FARGO—North Dakota State will be returning to Minneapolis to play a football game, only it won't be against the University of Minnesota this time. The Bison and Butler University will face each other at Target Field on Aug. 31, 2019.
Bison will still have 6 home games that season. Coach said it's for exposure/recruiting in the Twin Cities, and the players getting to play in a big stadium. There is a large Bison fan base in the Twin Cities that could nearly fill the stadium, plus a wave of people from Fargo and out-state Minnesota.89Hen wrote:Is there another football game that weekend? Surely they can't be doing this just for that game.
I meant is Minny playing a game also at Target. Seems like a big venue (and expense to create) for just Bison vs Butler. I could see NDSU v UNI or something like that. Awesome if you guys can fill it for such a dud of an opponent.Gil Dobie wrote:Bison will still have 6 home games that season. Coach said it's for exposure/recruiting in the Twin Cities, and the players getting to play in a big stadium. There is a large Bison fan base in the Twin Cities that could nearly fill the stadium, plus a wave of people from Fargo and out-state Minnesota.89Hen wrote:Is there another football game that weekend? Surely they can't be doing this just for that game.
Guess it's kind of an in-your-face game, being the B1G won't play FCS schools anymore.
BTW, is that true going forward? I know Towson has games at Maryland as far as 2020 already booked.Gil Dobie wrote:being the B1G won't play FCS schools anymore.
Gophers have their own stadium, TCF Bank Field, ECB, east of old Muddy. Twins Stadium is WCB, west of Old Muddy. Gophers are scheduled to play SDSU August 29th at TCF Bank Field.89Hen wrote:I meant is Minny playing a game also at Target. Seems like a big venue (and expense to create) for just Bison vs Butler. I could see NDSU v UNI or something like that. Awesome if you guys can fill it for such a dud of an opponent.Gil Dobie wrote:
Bison will still have 6 home games that season. Coach said it's for exposure/recruiting in the Twin Cities, and the players getting to play in a big stadium. There is a large Bison fan base in the Twin Cities that could nearly fill the stadium, plus a wave of people from Fargo and out-state Minnesota.
Guess it's kind of an in-your-face game, being the B1G won't play FCS schools anymore.
So we hear, no new games will be scheduled.89Hen wrote:BTW, is that true going forward? I know Towson has games at Maryland as far as 2020 already booked.Gil Dobie wrote:being the B1G won't play FCS schools anymore.
I thought you said you were going to move to Florida.Gil Dobie wrote:Got my tickets today!
A couple months in the winter, see how that goes. Can't pass up Bison football season.CAA Flagship wrote:I thought you said you were going to move to Florida.Gil Dobie wrote:Got my tickets today!
That's not true - Penn St just announced a slew of games last month for the 2020s that included both villanova and Delaware (as well as Temple). I'm sure Minnesota would balk at playing NDSU but that's a different matter.Gil Dobie wrote:So we hear, no new games will be scheduled.89Hen wrote: BTW, is that true going forward? I know Towson has games at Maryland as far as 2020 already booked.
Has there ever been a football game there before? I can't imagine Butler travels very many fans, if any. A game against SDSU there would be impressive.Gil Dobie wrote:Bison will still have 6 home games that season. Coach said it's for exposure/recruiting in the Twin Cities, and the players getting to play in a big stadium. There is a large Bison fan base in the Twin Cities that could nearly fill the stadium, plus a wave of people from Fargo and out-state Minnesota.89Hen wrote:Is there another football game that weekend? Surely they can't be doing this just for that game.
Guess it's kind of an in-your-face game, being the B1G won't play FCS schools anymore.
This policy has changed since the post was made.GannonFan wrote:That's not true - Penn St just announced a slew of games last month for the 2020s that included both villanova and Delaware (as well as Temple). I'm sure Minnesota would balk at playing NDSU but that's a different matter.Gil Dobie wrote:
So we hear, no new games will be scheduled.
DII St Thomas vs St John's last year, 37355 fans attended.GannonFan wrote:Has there ever been a football game there before? I can't imagine Butler travels very many fans, if any. A game against SDSU there would be impressive.Gil Dobie wrote:
Bison will still have 6 home games that season. Coach said it's for exposure/recruiting in the Twin Cities, and the players getting to play in a big stadium. There is a large Bison fan base in the Twin Cities that could nearly fill the stadium, plus a wave of people from Fargo and out-state Minnesota.
Guess it's kind of an in-your-face game, being the B1G won't play FCS schools anymore.
Wonder if that's a D2 record.Gil Dobie wrote:DII St Thomas vs St John's last year, 37355 fans attended.GannonFan wrote:
Has there ever been a football game there before? I can't imagine Butler travels very many fans, if any. A game against SDSU there would be impressive.
I'm not so sure. Back in '95, Oregon State lost a roadie at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. UOP was in the Big West (back when the BWC actually fielded football; current BWC members Cow Poly and the Manure Pile now park their football teams in the Big Sky), a conference that SHOULD have been FCS given the caliber of the entire conference. Heck, I'm not even sure any Big West team (short of the autobid) would have made the FCS playoffs. And UOP itself finished 3-8 that season despite beating OSU, largely because of the incredibly difficult bodybag season-opening schedule (Fresno State, Arizona, Nebraska, and Oregon all on the road and Oregon State at home). If a Pac-10 (as it was then) school can take a game like that on the road, why wouldn't Minnesota (a middle-of-the-road Big Ten at best) take a roadie at NDSU? Other than fear of a loss, that is. Heck, an NDSU win wouldn't even rate the awe of App over Michigan....GannonFan wrote:That's not true - Penn St just announced a slew of games last month for the 2020s that included both villanova and Delaware (as well as Temple). I'm sure Minnesota would balk at playing NDSU but that's a different matter.Gil Dobie wrote:
So we hear, no new games will be scheduled.
Butler is FCS, same division as NDSU.SuperHornet wrote:I'm not so sure. Back in '95, Oregon State lost a roadie at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. UOP was in the Big West (back when the BWC actually fielded football; current BWC members Cow Poly and the Manure Pile now park their football teams in the Big Sky), a conference that SHOULD have been FCS given the caliber of the entire conference. Heck, I'm not even sure any Big West team (short of the autobid) would have made the FCS playoffs. And UOP itself finished 3-8 that season despite beating OSU, largely because of the incredibly difficult bodybag season-opening schedule (Fresno State, Arizona, Nebraska, and Oregon all on the road and Oregon State at home). If a Pac-10 (as it was then) school can take a game like that on the road, why wouldn't Minnesota (a middle-of-the-road Big Ten at best) take a roadie at NDSU? Other than fear of a loss, that is. Heck, an NDSU win wouldn't even rate the awe of App over Michigan....GannonFan wrote:
That's not true - Penn St just announced a slew of games last month for the 2020s that included both villanova and Delaware (as well as Temple). I'm sure Minnesota would balk at playing NDSU but that's a different matter.
God I hope you smoke the Ducks.Gil Dobie wrote:Butler is FCS, same division as NDSU.SuperHornet wrote:
I'm not so sure. Back in '95, Oregon State lost a roadie at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. UOP was in the Big West (back when the BWC actually fielded football; current BWC members Cow Poly and the Manure Pile now park their football teams in the Big Sky), a conference that SHOULD have been FCS given the caliber of the entire conference. Heck, I'm not even sure any Big West team (short of the autobid) would have made the FCS playoffs. And UOP itself finished 3-8 that season despite beating OSU, largely because of the incredibly difficult bodybag season-opening schedule (Fresno State, Arizona, Nebraska, and Oregon all on the road and Oregon State at home). If a Pac-10 (as it was then) school can take a game like that on the road, why wouldn't Minnesota (a middle-of-the-road Big Ten at best) take a roadie at NDSU? Other than fear of a loss, that is. Heck, an NDSU win wouldn't even rate the awe of App over Michigan....
NDSU plays at Oregon next year.
Don't worry, the Griz got this.kalm wrote:God I hope you smoke the Ducks.Gil Dobie wrote:
Butler is FCS, same division as NDSU.
NDSU plays at Oregon next year.
You don't play them until 2020.Gil Dobie wrote:Butler is FCS, same division as NDSU.SuperHornet wrote:
I'm not so sure. Back in '95, Oregon State lost a roadie at University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. UOP was in the Big West (back when the BWC actually fielded football; current BWC members Cow Poly and the Manure Pile now park their football teams in the Big Sky), a conference that SHOULD have been FCS given the caliber of the entire conference. Heck, I'm not even sure any Big West team (short of the autobid) would have made the FCS playoffs. And UOP itself finished 3-8 that season despite beating OSU, largely because of the incredibly difficult bodybag season-opening schedule (Fresno State, Arizona, Nebraska, and Oregon all on the road and Oregon State at home). If a Pac-10 (as it was then) school can take a game like that on the road, why wouldn't Minnesota (a middle-of-the-road Big Ten at best) take a roadie at NDSU? Other than fear of a loss, that is. Heck, an NDSU win wouldn't even rate the awe of App over Michigan....
NDSU plays at Oregon next year.
That's right, we go to Delaware next year to finish the home and home, with UC Davis and UND at home for next year, after the Butler game. It will give our Freshmen QB next year, some time to get ready for the big time.Grizalltheway wrote:You don't play them until 2020.Gil Dobie wrote:
Butler is FCS, same division as NDSU.
NDSU plays at Oregon next year.