Talk:North Dakota State Bison football

Incorrect national championships

NDSU did not win Division II national championships in 1965, 1966 and 1967. NCAA Division II did not exist in those years. NDSU's first 3 National Championships where in the "College Division" and occurred in 1965, 1968 and 1969. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.2.242.82 (talk • contribs)

Okay how do we want to deal with the 1965, 1968, and 1969 championships? Under the Wikipedia article NCAA Division II Football Championship it says the following "From 1964 to 1972, four regional bowl games were played that led up to a wire service poll to determine the final champion of Division II's predecessor, the NCAA College Division." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcdowellju (talk • contribs) 03:03, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Pro-Sioux nonsense

MY GOD! Who writes this crap?

The references to UND are overdone and unnecessary! Pro-Sioux bias is creeping in again.

STOP IT! —Preceding unsigned comment added by GothmogLOB (talk • contribs)

Coaches listing

what is the meaning of the colored backgrounds to the names in the coaches listing? Isaac 13:43, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Low Importance Rating

Why does this article have a low-importance rating?

TRBUFF 19:02, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

As it is, this article actually has two importance ratings. The low importance rating that you refer to is the rating that WikiProject College football has applied to their WikiProject banner for their purposes. WikiProject North Dakota has not yet rated the importance of this article because there is still some discussion over exactly how we should carry out the importance rating for WPND articles. It's very possible that the two WikiProjects that this article is a part of could end up rating the article at different levels of importance. For instance, while the college football WikiProject rates the importance of the article as low, it is possible that WPND may end up rating it something more along the lines of mid-importance. Think of it this way, in all of college football, the NDSU Bison football program is not extremely notable and that must be why the college football WikiProject chose a low importance rating. On the other hand, the NDSU football program is much more notable when you're considering just the state of North Dakota so we should probably give it an importance rating higher than just low. For the time being, I think it would be best for you to not worry about the importance rating of any individual ND articles. That feature really hasn't been implemented/utilized yet anyways. --MatthewUND^(talk) 22:40, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks so much TRBUFF 23:42, 11 August 2007 (UTC)\

Infobox

Has anyone noticed that the infobox about Bison Football is a College Basketball infobox?TRBUFF 14:36, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

I have noticed that. A little odd, but I guess it works. I'll try to find a College Football infobox. --MatthewUND^(talk) 20:59, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Man TRBUFF 21:16, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Infobox II

Here ya go, I put it in and filled out everything to the best of my knowledge, I could only get the NCC championships from 1964 onward, but I believe there were 26 in total, I only have 23 listed so it'll require a few more. I believe the overall record is correct, I compiled that from the site the little box thingy points to. other than that, everything should be good to go... feel free to change it, remove it, whatever, I just figured you needed something to work from AC710N87 04:27, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. TRBUFF 22:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Standardization

I have noticed all of the NDSU sports pages look different. I think we should standardize them... --NDState 05:06, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Good idea, first of all we need to fight that they don't get deleted Leopold Samsonite 05:08, 31 August 2007 (UTC)Leopold Samsonite

I agree, it seems as if the person may be anti-NDSU. There were others and we have squashed them. Good thing MatthewUND usually helps us out ;) Now we just need to add a lot of info to help solidify the articles. I think I will give old athletics a call --NDState 05:19, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I just made a comment over on the WPND talk page saying that, while I would personally like to see all UND and NDSU sports articles saved, I think the ones we need to fight for the most (and the ones for which notability is probably the easiest to establish) are UND and NDSU football, UND and NDSU basketball, UND hockey, and NDSU wrestling. Those seem to be the biggest sports at UND and NDSU...I'm right about the wrestling program being really big at NDSU, right? Anyways...that's what I'm thinking right now. I think we're probably going to be losing quite a few of the ND high school sports articles. --MatthewUND^(talk) 05:31, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

You know in all honesty I think I hear more about women's volleyball and baseball then wrestling, then again thats just me. What are the reasons for removing all of the articles? Is the wiki foundation really hurting for server space? --NDState 05:42, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

AfDs (AfD=Article for Deletion) are a common occurrence on Wikipedia. It is important that only notable things be given articles on Wikipedia...otherwise just about anything would have its own article and Wikipedia would be one big mess of useless trivia. The problem lies in just what each user defines as "notable". Tricky, indeed. --MatthewUND^(talk) 05:55, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

2007 Season

Should we include a section on the 2007 season? I see a lot of other college football team articles that do. TRBUFF 21:22, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Sure --NDState 03:20, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

At least 2 FBS games are not shown in table. NDSU played 2 FBS games in both 2006 and 2007, but only 1 game is shown for each year. In 2006 NDSU beat Ball State 29-24 in Muncie, IN on September 23 for our first FBS win. And in 2007, NDSU beat Central Michigan 44-14 in Mt. Pleasant, MI on September 22. I don't know how to edit the table, so if someone else could do that, I'd appreciate it.

Also, in the paragraph above the table, the following sentence could be added: "Since moving up to FCS, the Bison have an overall record against FBS teams of 9-5, including a 6 game winning streak from 2010 - 2016. The 2016 game was over #13 ranked Iowa, the highest ranked FBS team NDSU has beaten."

(Please feel free to proof, correct any errors, and re-write above info as you see fit. Thanks!) 67.60.207.66 (talk) 10:57, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

In the second paragraph of this article, the statement "Since 2011, the North Dakota State Bison have a record of 149–12 (.925) ... " looks like it was written through the 2021 season, and probably should be updated to something like "From the 2011 through 2023 seasons, the North Dakota State Bison have a record of 172-19 (.901) ... " Other updates may also be required to this paragraph, such as " ... this decade.", "The Bison are 225-46 (.830) since moving to Division I in 2004.", and "Since 1964, the Bison have had only three losing seasons and an overall record of 574–143–4 (.800) through that 60-year span, ... "

Other updates may be required to other sections of this article as well. I haven't read it all, and I don't think I'm the best person to edit it, I just saw a couple mistakes (missing 2 FBS games in the table), and a few records that were out of date, so I decided to comment. I'm not sure how often this article should be updated ... annually? 67.60.207.66 (talk) 11:43, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

New Logo

I put the new Bison logo up in the infobox.TRBUFF 22:25, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Rivalries

Why were the Sioux put in the rivalries section? While they were rivals of the past they are not rivals now. I dont think I have seen any other page that lists "historical" rivalries. I see no reason to put them in the infobox. --NDState 06:18, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 06:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

I fixed it --NDState 06:53, 5 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ndstate (talk • contribs)

Thanks. TRBUFF 22:10, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Current NFL Players

Was thinking maybe we could include a list of current NDSU players in the NFL.

NFL LIST NEEDS TO BE UPDATED — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.127.148.10 (talk) 14:24, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

All Americans

I have been watching NDSU football for years now. I don't believe that Carson Wentz was an All-American QB outside of being a preseason selection. Can someone look this up to make sure? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mcdowellju (talk • contribs) 05:56, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Move the Chains

I remember "Move the Chains" as something far earlier than the late 90's. In fact, I have heard anecdotal stories of it prior to 1990. That should be corrected by someone with better knowledge but that is inaccurate.