FCS Kickoff NDSU @ Montana

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QB is the most important position and he lit them up like a Christmas tree without starting a game in 4 years. NDSU was never going to win that game if he was say a 3 year starter, they would have lost 56-21. Easy.

Ifs and butts. You could just as easily say if Montana QB was more expired and the HC was there last year they route NDSU. Their QB started his first game in 4 or 5 years, he only passed the ball 22 times in the last 3 years of college and he still put up over 400 yards and 3 TDs. NDSU has a bad secondary which should bode well for us.

I was surprised that the NDSU veteran line could not consistently dominate the trenches against that fiesty but undersized Montana front.  Was anybody else not impressed by the NDSU running backs?  Most of their big gains on the ground came from their versatile qb before he tweaked the ankle, either as planned runs or scrambles.

And the NDSU secondary is very vulnerable.  Like Power suggested, kind of reminded us of the way we defended the pass for the last five years.  NDSU is still good but the domination is over.  No contender in the league will be intimidated by them any longer.

They lost Crockett and they haven't found the answer yet.  Can't run the QB like that or he gets hurt.  You save that for games that matter the most.  Now he is banged up.  I am surprised they couldn't run on the undersized Montana DL.  However, they still pissed the game away.  They had them on 4th down with 40 seconds left and did not hold.  Stupid pass interference penalties cost them.  Play this game 10 times and NDSU takes at least 8 of them

Montana's DL is undersized.  NDSU is missing their star RB from last year and they don't have the answer with King Frazier.  They should have blown Montana off the ball on inside runs and off tackle runs.  They will get better but costly turnovers killed them along with questionable play calling.  NDSU beats them 8 of 10 times playing in Montana.  10 of 10 on neutral field.

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And Montana with a second loss already.  As I stated earlier NDSU beats them 8 out of 10 times.  They were lucky.  Montana lost to Liberty now.  The Big Sky is the Big Fluffy.  Northern Iowa throttled Cal Poly and beat Eastern Washington too.  Western Illinois lost a tight game to #2 Coastal Carolina.  Conference is still the best.