2023 Quarterfinal: North Dakota State @ #3 South Dakota

[Professor Chaos]

Game kicks off Saturday 12/9 at 1:30PM CT and will be nationally broadcast on ABC. Winner moves on to face the winner of #7 Furman and #2 Montana.

[JacksFan40]

Genuine coin flip here. Bison are playing much better than when USD beat them in Fargo, but USD has proven they can find ways to win. I’d give the Bison a slight edge, but wouldn’t be surprised either way. If USDs defense can contain the Bison offense like they did earlier this season it’ll be a slugfest.

[Professor Chaos]

Will be interesting to see what Cam Miller shows up in this game. He had his worst game of the season today and the Bison were very fortunate to get the win since he's been their best offensive player to date so far. He needs to pick it up or I have a hard time seeing them sneaking out another playoff game on the road. It will be interesting to see the crowd spread in this game - it's tough selling tickets in a week to your home crowd and with there no more possible home playoff games in Fargo this year I'd expect a good contingent of Bison fans in this game.

I'm biased but I've been hoping for my Bison to get another chance at the Yotes since they won on Homecoming in the Fargodome earlier in the season. No excuses anymore - you can't lose to a team twice in a single season and claim you have any kind of superiority.

[BisonFan02]

Cam needs to show up in big games.....

[Professor Chaos]

Haven't seen any official announcement yet but I see Montana's website lists them as playing Friday 12/8 at 8PM CT. So that probably means this is a Saturday game (unless they go earlier Friday evening, like 5 PM CT, but I don't think that's a TV slot and I'd assume this will be a nationally televised game.

Dom Izzo (NDSU beat writer) weighed in last night:

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[Professor Chaos]

Dom was right - this game gets the Saturday 1:30PM CT time slot on ABC. This is a new national TV slot that ESPN/ABC hasn't given an FCS playoff game in the past so it'll be interesting to see the ratings numbers it can pull. I would hope for 2M+ average since the only other college football games it'll be competing with are the SDSU/Villanova game on ESPN that starts 2.5 hours earlier and the Army/Navy game on CBS that starts 30 minutes after this one.

[caribbeanhen]

Bison win

[ming01]

NDSU favored by 6.5 on 5Dimes

[Ridge1982]

NDSU favored by 6.5 on 5Dimes

FanDuel too

[gotts]

FanDuel too