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FRISCO, Texas - North Dakota State and South Dakota State will meet in the Football Championship Subdivision title game Sunday for the first time. The matchup seemed inevitable for the last few seasons, moreso in the last year since fellow FCS heavweights James Madison and Sam Houston left for the more interesting pastures of the higher Football…

Fans in the Dakotas have waited a long time for it happen and now it finally has. Missouri Valley Conference foes North Dakota State and South Dakota State are meeting to renew their storied rivalry on the grandest of stages. The "Dakota Marker" has been featured everywhere from College GameDay to the playoffs in recent years but now it makes its…

North Dakota State is 5-9 ATS this season, all as a favorite. The Bison failed to cover as a 3.5-point favorite in a 31-28 road loss to Pac-12 Arizona, their only game against an FBS foe this season. The Jackrabbits have saved their best for last. They averaged 41 points per game in their first three playoff games - routs of Delaware, Holy Cross…

A strong case can be made for an upset in three of the four FCS quarterfinals this weekend, but a Samford win at North Dakota State Friday night would surely be one of the bigger surprises in the 45-year playoff history. NDSU, the defending FCS champion and a winner of nine national titles since 2011, is appearing in a national quarterfinal for the…

Outside of the Celebration Bowl, there are only seven games left on the FCS calendar and four of them go down this weekend. All eight teams still alive in the playoffs are the eight teams that received seeds in this year's tournament and after looking at these quarterfinal matchups coming up, it certainly seems like the committee got it on the nose…

FARGO - The biggest victory of Southern Illinois head coach Nick Hill's career came in the COVID-delayed spring season of 2021. The Salukis rolled North Dakota State 38-14 in Carbondale, ending the Bison's FCS record 39-game winning streak. Make of that game what you will considering the makeshift spring season was an unfortunate joke, but it…