2015 National Championship - NDSU vs Jacksonville St

[89Hen]

Did they play this yet? When is it?

Seriously... when is this thing?

[dbackjon]

Did they play this yet? When is it?

Seriously... when is this thing?

Saturday

[dbackjon]

January 9th

[dbackjon]

10 am

[dbackjon]

Shown on ESPN2

[BDKJMU]

10 am

Noon..

[Gil Dobie]

10 am

Noon..

11am

[Gil Dobie]

Apparently the Delaware Contingent, is not familiar with the playoff schedule.

[Grizalltheway]

Apparently the Delaware Contingent, is not familiar with the playoff schedule.

No need to point out the obvious.

[AZGrizFan]

Shown on ESPN2

Post whore

[89Hen]

Apparently the Delaware Contingent, is not familiar with the playoff schedule.

There are still playoffs?

[Grizalltheway]

Apparently the Delaware Contingent, is not familiar with the playoff schedule.

There are still playoffs?

Yeah, but you have to win at least 6 games to make them.

[89Hen]

There are still playoffs?

Yeah, but you have to win at least 6 games to make them.

Well that doesn't seem fair.

[JohnStOnge]

You know I'll admit that it's going to bug me some if a program, Jacksonville State, that McNeese has a 7-1 historical head to head record against wins a FCS national championship when McNeese has been to the title game twice without winning it even though both times they were facing opponents they were obviously capable of beating.

Hopefully North Dakota State will take care of business. Jacksonville State winning a FCS national championship just wouldn't be right.

[AshevilleApp]

You know I'll admit that it's going to bug me some if a program, Jacksonville State, that McNeese has a 7-1 historical head to head record against wins a FCS national championship when McNeese has been to the title game twice without winning it even though both times they were facing opponents they were obviously capable of beating.

Hopefully North Dakota State will take care of business. Jacksonville State winning a FCS national championship just wouldn't be right.

If they win, it will be right. You losing in the past wouldn't detract from them winning now.

[Bronco]

Anyone seen any promotion for our championship game on ESPN this week
I haven't
Watching ABC this AM all they talked about is the FBS championship game on ESPN

[JohnStOnge]

If they win, it will be right. You losing in the past wouldn't detract from them winning now.

It just wouldn't be right for a historically crappy I-AA/FCS program like that to suddenly catch lightning in the bottle and win a national championship when there are fine upstanding programs like McNeese and even moreso Northern Iowa that have historically been much better programs and still don't have national championships.

Plus there's the aforementioned fact that North Dakota State builds its teams in a more "noble" way (i.e., recruits high school players and develops them with minimal reliance on transfers).

Go Bison. May the Good King prevail over the evil interloper.

[89Hen]

Anyone seen any promotion for our championship game on ESPN this week
I haven't
Watching ABC this AM all they talked about is the FBS championship game on ESPN

ESPN sucks ass.

[AshevilleApp]

If they win, it will be right. You losing in the past wouldn't detract from them winning now.

It just wouldn't be right for a historically crappy I-AA/FCS program like that to suddenly catch lightning in the bottle and win a national championship when there are fine upstanding programs like McNeese and even moreso Northern Iowa that have historically been much better programs and still don't have national championships.

Plus there's the aforementioned fact that North Dakota State builds its teams in a more "noble" way (i.e., recruits high school players and develops them with minimal reliance on transfers).

Go Bison. May the Good King prevail over the evil interloper.

Right is in the W .

[Gil Dobie]

Pleasantly surprised the Bison are on a drive for 5. Before the season, it looked like a rebuilding year, and even more like that, after the Montana game. Defense lost 9-10 starters from last year. Looks like the youngsters have improved since that first game. Still not a dominating Bison team as the last few years, hopefully good enough to beat Jack St.

[UNI88]

If they win, it will be right. You losing in the past wouldn't detract from them winning now.

It just wouldn't be right for a historically crappy I-AA/FCS program like that to suddenly catch lightning in the bottle and win a national championship when there are fine upstanding programs like McNeese and even moreso Northern Iowa that have historically been much better programs and still don't have national championships.

Plus there's the aforementioned fact that North Dakota State builds its teams in a more "noble" way (i.e., recruits high school players and develops them with minimal reliance on transfers).

Go Bison. May the Good King prevail over the evil interloper.

JSU has a good coach who has built a good program and has a team quite capable of winning a championship. If they beat the Bison then they have earned the title. I'll cheer for UNI no matter what happens and I'm not going to cry over JSU winning one.

[JohnStOnge]

JSU has a good coach who has built a good program and has a team quite capable of winning a championship. If they beat the Bison then they have earned the title. I'll cheer for UNI no matter what happens and I'm not going to cry over JSU winning one.

I won't cry but I'll say the same thing I said when Sam Houston State made the national title game a couple of times.

It's like you've been after this girl for years and can't get her. Then one day you wake up and find out that she married Barney Fief.

It wouldn't be as bad as if Sam Houston State would've won a national title in 2011 or 2012 with its previously crappy program. But it'd still be bad.

[slycat]

Go JSU!

[JohnStOnge]

Go JSU!

Why? it's just not right. A Northern Iowa fan can talk about the Panthers but I look at McNeese and say it just ain't fair. Over the last 25 years McNeese has had 23 winning seasons. They've won 11 conference championships and been to the playoffs 16 times. They went into the last game of the regular season with a chance to win the conference championship 18 times. They never went for more than two years without going into the last game of the season with a chance to win the conference crown (2004 - 2005 then 2011 - 2012). They went to the championship game twice, once losing by one point under freakish horrible luck circumstances to the third place team from the Gateway after having beaten the second place team from the Gateway during the regular season then the champion of the Gateway during the playoffs then the second time losing 34-14 to a team they beat 38-13 during the regular season. They lost to second one in spite of holding their opponent to 13 first downs while getting 26 first downs of their own. Ran up and down the field all game while somehow avoiding scoring points while also managing to give up a handful of big plays so the other team could score lots of points without being able to move the ball consistently.

And now this? Jacksonville State? A program McNeese has a 7-1 historical record against from the friggin' OVC wins a national championship? A program that moved to the OVC because it couldn't complete in the Southland? It's just not right. The Football Gods would have to be very cruel to allow that to happen.

With North Dakota State you just bow down, pay homage, and say it's just a superior program. Same with a program like Montana when that happens. But Jacksonville State? The Barney Fife metaphor comes to mind.

[AshevilleApp]

Go JSU!

Why? it's just not right. A Northern Iowa fan can talk about the Panthers but I look at McNeese and say it just ain't fair. Over the last 25 years McNeese has had 23 winning seasons. They've won 11 conference championships and been to the playoffs 16 times. They went into the last game of the regular season with a chance to win the conference championship 18 times. They never went for more than two years without going into the last game of the season with a chance to win the conference crown (2004 - 2005 then 2011 - 2012). They went to the championship game twice, once losing by one point under freakish horrible luck circumstances to the third place team from the Gateway after having beaten the second place team from the Gateway during the regular season then the champion of the Gateway during the playoffs then the second time losing 34-14 to a team they beat 38-13 during the regular season. They lost to second one in spite of holding their opponent to 13 first downs while getting 26 first downs of their own. Ran up and down the field all game while somehow avoiding scoring points while also managing to give up a handful of big plays so the other team could score lots of points without being able to move the ball consistently.

And now this? Jacksonville State? A program McNeese has a 7-1 historical record against from the friggin' OVC wins a national championship? A program that moved to the OVC because it couldn't complete in the Southland? It's just not right. The Football Gods would have to be very cruel to allow that to happen.

With North Dakota State you just bow down, pay homage, and say it's just a superior program. Same with a program like Montana when that happens. But Jacksonville State? The Barney Fife metaphor comes to mind.

Wow. For an agnostic, you sure are superstitious.