Down goes ndsu!!!!!!!!!

[DomeIsHome]

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Football is a complicated endevour both on and off the field. The fans are often impetious, immature, angry and jealous. NDSU fans have noticed that in all divisions. Our great success in the BCS/FBS/FCS conferences the BISON compete in regularly draw out the worst in opposing fan bases as they try to justify their own problems and moral victories. Without the land mark wins all you can do is hope your team is selected for the expanded field.

I'm confused. Since I've been paying attention to NDSU, mainly last year and this year, they haven't won a conference title at any level (BCS, FBS OR FCS).

Your second part, while the field is expanded, UNI would have made the playoffs without the expanded field anyway. Thats pretty simple, and if you can't see that, then you defiantly need to look past Fargo in terms of good teams.

[UNIChippewa]

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Fellow Panther fans,

If you're tired of reading the inane rants from JBB it's quite simple really...

DON'T. FEED. THE. TROLL!!!

It's really quite simple, just ignore him, as tempting as it might be to tell him what an idiot he sounds like.

As for the Youngstown State win in Fargo, that's pretty damn impressive. Makes me feel a lot better about our skin of the teeth victory over them last week starting our young back-up quarterback.

[panther-state]

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Big deal. We still beat you head to head.

We'll see "who is at their best" during the playoffs.

The big deal is that we still get the recognition as being the MVFC champion. Doesn't matter if you beat us if our conference records are the same. It definitely helps you with the playoff seeding and such this year but next year NDSU and UNI would BOTH be the defending conference champs (although UNI would be the 2-time defending champions).

[JBB]

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I'm confused. Since I've been paying attention to NDSU, mainly last year and this year, they haven't won a conference title at any level (BCS, FBS OR FCS).

Your second part, while the field is expanded, UNI would have made the playoffs without the expanded field anyway. Thats pretty simple, and if you can't see that, then you defiantly need to look past Fargo in terms of good teams.

In this division, where it is supposidly "won on the field", our conference gives you a championship even if you lose. Its rather ironic that losers would brag about being winners but rules dont always make sense. We dont measure our success by so called "conference titles" that mean little more then the competition ribbons handed out to our young children. You can get a conference title by losing. At NDSU we like to win. You cant win them all the saying goes, but at NDSU they have given it as good a shot as anybody.

If UNI loses next week, and I expect there is more than a fair chance of that happening, the fans there will be glad the field was expanded. Like I said it was likely UNI would get in, especially with the expanded playoff field. Its almost as good as NDSUs auto bid, but not quite. That's the nature of the new BISON Era.

[JBB]

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According to the grapevine in Ohio I find it improbable to believe your take on Cap'n Cat.Captain's hometown of Steubenville,Ohio is also hometown to Jimmy the Greek,Dean Martin,and porn star Traci Lords.Its common knowledge here in Ohio that the Captain left for the cornfields of the midwest to escape the drunks,gamblers,and whores here in Ohio!

I did not know that!

[06panther10]

I like how jbb is talking smack about the expanded field when NDSU was literally the last team in last year.

Regardless, UNI is clearly a lock and is still in good shape for a seed.

[panther-state]

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Because finishing in the top 10 with losses to two ranked teams and a BCS team that might make it a bowl game would be nowhere near playoff worthy, huh? What is in that Fargo water that makes you so consistently high and give you urges to orally pleasure male chickens?

[BisoninNWMN]

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The big deal is that we still get the recognition as being the MVFC champion. Doesn't matter if you beat us if our conference records are the same. It definitely helps you with the playoff seeding and such this year but next year NDSU and UNI would BOTH be the defending conference champs (although UNI would be the 2-time defending champions).

So, you think a 9-2 UNI team will be seeded higher than a 10-1 NDSU team with a head to head win?

So the playoff committee is going to sit down and say......UNI deserves to be seeded higher because they have been conference champions more often and they have a more "seasoned" FCS resume compared to NDSU....Well, if that is the way the committee determines seeds then we should forfeit next week and not even play in the playoffs......

[JBB]

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I think the playoff field expansion will put some undeserving teams in every year. If the shoe fits wear it. I dont know if the UNI inability to beat ranked teams this year is a real big plus when it comes to playoff selection but I dont think a moral victory is going to help at all.

Last year UNI fans had the opportunity to watch the great NDSU BISON playoff run because their weekends were free. The run by NDSU highlights the wisdom of the selection committee. Lets just hope they do as good of job this season?

By the way when you capitalize the M in Mark you split Land Mark. That is how its intended to describe those types of wins that NDSU has had this season, and most every season for that matter. Good Luck!

[panther-state]

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So, you think a 9-2 UNI team will be seeded higher than a 10-1 NDSU team with a head to head win?

So the playoff committee is going to sit down and say......UNI deserves to be seeded higher because they have been conference champions more often and they have a more "seasoned" FCS resume compared to NDSU....Well, if that is the way the committee determines seeds then we should forfeit next week and not even play in the playoffs......

I definitely never said that. In fact I said that NDSU has the advantage in seeding because of the win over UNI. It usually helps to fully read a post before responding to it...or have an understanding of the word "you" (i.e. "you" the Bison not "me" the Panthers).

[panther-state]

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I think the playoff field expansion will put some undeserving teams in every year. If the shoe fits wear it. I dont know if the UNI inability to beat ranked teams this year is a real big plus when it comes to playoff selection but I dont think a moral victory is going to help at all.

Yep 4-1 against teams that have held a ranking in the FCS this year clearly shows an inability to beat ranked teams

Excuse us for losing by 1 point to a BCS team that has a shot at a bowl game, as opposed to beating two BCS cellar-dwellers (Kansas and Minny). Man it must feel great to blind yourself with a superiority complex like many Bison fans choose to do.

[BisoninNWMN]

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I definitely never said that. In fact I said that NDSU has the advantage in seeding because of the win over UNI. It usually helps to fully read a post before responding to it...or have an understanding of the word "you" (i.e. "you" the Bison not "me" the Panthers).

Making light of how the playoff committee doesn't select teams.....

[panther-state]

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Making light of how the playoff committee doesn't select teams.....

I have no clue what you are trying to get at...

I do not believe that UNI gets a higher seed than NDSU if both teams win next weekend. However, to think that it couldn't happen shows a misunderstanding of the fact that the NCAA does not always make logical or informed decisions. Putting a 19-2 UNI ahead of an 10-1 NDSU wouldn't be a travesty or crime against humanity. It would just be...interesting

[Cat80]

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In this division, where it is supposidly "won on the field", our conference gives you a championship even if you lose. Its rather ironic that losers would brag about being winners but rules dont always make sense. We dont measure our success by so called "conference titles" that mean little more then the competition ribbons handed out to our young children. You can get a conference title by losing. At NDSU we like to win. You cant win them all the saying goes, but at NDSU they have given it as good a shot as anybody.

If UNI loses next week, and I expect there is more than a fair chance of that happening, the fans there will be glad the field was expanded. Like I said it was likely UNI would get in, especially with the expanded playoff field. Its almost as good as NDSUs auto bid, but not quite. That's the nature of the new BISON Era.

I'm sure you'll be the first to howl and demand its' removal if NDSU hangs a banner, sign or display anywhere in the shed to honor it's first Division I conference championship? When we've tied with others and either had or didn't have the tiebreaker I don't recall any of the BS that's spewing from Bison fans now happening then. From either team. We just wished each other success in the playoffs. Good luck to the Bison, I know that can't be reciprocated, but it's ok.

[ubuntuCAT]

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If conference championships are like participation ribbons why does UNI have more than any other mvfc school? And it isn't even close.