North Dakota State BISON FootbalL 35 Conference Championships | 15 National Championships 2018 Missouri Valley Football Conference and NCAA Division I FCS Champions 2019 Schedule No. 1 Bison Welcome Missouri State Saturday for (6-0 overall, 2-0 MVFC) Date Opponent Time A31 vs. Butler (at Target Field) W, 57-10 Trees Bowl, Code Green Game S7 NORTH DAKOTA W, 38-7 S14 at #18/18 Delaware W, 47-22 THIS WEEK: No. 1-ranked North Dakota S21 #4/4 UC DAVIS W, 27-16 State (6-0, 2-0 MVFC) is the lone remaining un- O5 *at #10/6 Illinois State W, 37-3 beaten team among the FCS playoff conferences O12 *#10/10 NORTHERN IOWA (Homecoming) W, 46-14 heading into this week’s Trees Bowl game. NDSU NORTH DAKOTA STATE MISSOURI STATE O19 *MISSOURI STATE (Trees Bowl) 2:30 p.m. will play Missouri State (1-4, 1-1 MVFC) at 2:30 O26 *at South Dakota State (Dakota Marker) 2 p.m. p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Gate City Bank Field BISON BEARS N2 *at Youngstown State 6 p.m. ET at the Fargodome (18,700). It is also the annual (6-0, 2-0 MVFC) (1-4, 1-1 MVFC) N9 *WESTERN ILLINOIS (Harvest Bowl) 2:30 p.m. Code Green game and fans are asked to wear Rank: 1/1 (STATS/AFCA) Rank: NR/NR (STATS/AFCA) N16 *SOUTH DAKOTA 2:30 p.m. green in all sections of the Fargodome. Last Game: Oct 12 def. Last Game: Oct 12 lost to N23 *at Southern Illinois 2 p.m. Northern Iowa 46-14 South Dakota 45-10 #Rankings are STATS/AFCA *MVFC games TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY: Unclaimed Streak: Won 27 Streak: Lost 1 At Home: 3-0 (Won 22) On Road: 1-2 (Won 1) Quick Facts student tickets will go on sale to the public at Coach: Coach: Dave Steckel Location: Fargo, ND 58102 (pop. 105,549) 7 p.m. Wednesday on GoBison.com/tickets. Record: 6-0 (1st) Record: 13-36 (5th) Founded: 1890 Reserved seats will be $41 plus fees in sections Enrollment: 13,173 (fall 2019) 13-15. The Bison Ticket Office will be open Thursday and Friday in the south lobby of the Sanford Nickname: Bison Health Athletic Complex from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday in the Fargodome lobby at 9:30 a.m. Colors: Yellow and Green (PMS 123, 343) Stadium: Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome (18,700) Surface: AstroTurf GameDay Grass TELEVISION: KVLY and the NBC North Dakota network will carry the game with Brian Shawn Affiliation: NCAA Division I FCS joined by Lee Timmerman and sideline reporter Ryan Gellner. Pregame coverage hosted by Beth Conference: Missouri Valley Football (MVFC) Hoole, Alex Egan and Kyle Emanuel begins at 1:30 p.m. The game will be available to ESPN+ sub- Last Year’s Record: 15-0, 8-0 MVFC (1st) scribers on ESPN.com and the ESPN app. Letterwinners Returning/Lost: 39/22 Starters Returning/Lost: 7/15 RADIO: Coverage begins at 2 p.m. on the Peterson Farms Seed Bison Radio Network with Offense: 3/8 Defense: 4/7 fourth-year NDSU play-by-play voice Jeff Culhane joined by NDSU and Buffalo Bills hall of famer Basic Offense: Pro Style Basic Defense: 4-3 Phil Hansen and NDSU sideline reporter Jeremy Jorgenson. Extended coverage locally on 107.9 President: Dr. Dean L. Bresciani (Humboldt State, 1984) The Fox, Bison 1660 and 92.7 FM includes “Bison Tailgate” from 11:00-12:00 with Brad Jones and Director of Athletics: Matt Larsen (Stony Brook, 1996) “Bison Game Day” from 12:00-2:00 with Keith Brake and Cole Jirik. Brake and Jirik return for “Bison Athletic Department Phone: (701) 231-8981 Hotline” with Chris Hanson and Kyle Emanuel for two hours following the network broadcast. Ticket Office Phone: (888) 231-6378 Football Staff ONLINE: NDSU All Access offers free audio streaming of all NDSU football games as well as Head Coach: Matt Entz (Wartburg College, 1995) live video of Bison home games to subscribers on GoBison.com/allaccess and the NDSU Athletics Record at NDSU: 6-0 (1st season) mobile app. Live stats for NDSU home games are available on BisonStats.com. Follow along with Career Record: same in-game updates on Twitter @NDSUfootball. Assistant Coaches/Staff: * (Minot St., 1977)...... Assoc. Head Coach THE SERIES: This is the 12th meeting between North Dakota State and Missouri State since Passing Game Coord./QBs * (NDSU, 2009)....Off. Coord./Tight Ends/Fullbacks 2008. NDSU has won eight straight and leads the series 9-2 after last year’s 48-7 victory in Spring- David Braun (Winona St., 2008)...... Def. Coord./Safeties field. Missouri State is 1-4 in Fargo with its only win coming in the 2009 Harvest Bowl game, 21-17. Nick Goeser (UW-Eau Claire, 2003)..... Spec.Teams Coord./DTs AJ Blazek (Iowa, 2002)...... Offensive Line LAST YEAR: NDSU’s tied a school record with five touchdown passes—all in the Dan Larson (UW-Eau Claire, 2003)...... Running Backs *Kody Morgan (UW-Stevens Point, 2012)...... first half—in last year’s 48-7 win over Missouri State. Stick completed his first 11 passes and finished Grant Olson (NDSU, 2014)...... 15 of 24 passing for 238 yards. Tight end caught touchdowns from 29 and 5 yards, Noah Pauley (Minn.-Duluth, 2012)...... Wide Receivers Dallas Freeman (29 yards) and Nate Jenson (43) caught their first touchdowns of the season, and *Buddha Williams (U. of Charleston, 2009)...... Defensive Ends Lance Dunn added a 27-yard TD as the Bison built a 34-0 halftime lead. Adam Cofield added touch- *Ben Klinger (Minnesota, 2015)...... Off. Quality Control *Luke Olson (Minnesota, 2012)...... Def. Quality Control down runs from 14 and 5 yards in the third quarter for NDSU, which had nine players combine for Nathan Bjoralt (NDSU, 2013)...... Dir. of Football Ops. & Equip. 245 yards on the ground. Seth Wilson, playing his first game of the year, led all rushers with 95 yards Josh Kittell (Jamestown, 2008)...... Dir. of Football Recruiting on eight attempts. made a game-high nine tackles with one of NDSU’s four sacks. John Riley (Arkansas State, 2008)... Dir. of Football Video Ops. Jim Kramer (UW-La Crosse, 1989)....Asst. AD/Ath. Performance *press box on game day TREES BOWL GAMES: This is the 29th Trees Bowl game sponsored by the North Dakota Forest Service. NDSU is 25-3 in the Trees Bowl and has won 10 straight including last year’s 21-17 victory Athletic Communications over South Dakota State. The event dates back to 1990 with one cancellation in 2001. Missouri State Contact: Ryan Perreault is making its first appearance as the Trees Bowl opponent. Office: (701) 231-8331 Mobile: (701) 793-0521 Email: [email protected] CODE GREEN: Saturday is NDSU’s annual “Code Green” game, and fans are asked to wear green Website: GoBison.com to the game in all sections of the Fargodome. Code Green represents the Bison football defensive Facebook: @NDSUathletics philosophy of play hard, play fast and play together. NDSU is currently ranked third in the FCS for Twitter: @NDSUathletics @NDSUfootball total defense (275.0 yards/game), third in scoring defense (12.0 points/game), fourth in pass ef- Instagram: @NDSUathletics @NDSUfootball YouTube: @NDSUathletics ficiency defense (103.60) and sixth in third down defense (.277). NDSU’s seven touchdowns allowed are the fewest in the FCS through six games this season. BISON FOOTBALL 2019 vs. MISSOURI STATE PAGE 2 TEAM COMPARISONS NORTH DAKOTA ST. (6-0, 2-0 MVFC) MISSOURI ST. (1-4, 1-1 MVFC) NCAA RANKINGS TEAM STATS BISON OPP TEAM STATS BEARS OPP NDSU MSU Points/Game 42.0 12.0 Points/Game 20.0 41.2 Scoring Off. 3rd 98th First Downs 133 86 First Downs 99 97 Rushing Off. 5th 117th Rushing/Game 297.8 96.0 Rushing/Game 73.6 238.0 Passing Off. 95th 46th Passing/Game 177.3 179.0 Passing/Game 241.6 220.6 Total Offense 8th 101st Total Offense/Game 475.2 275.0 Total Offense/Game 315.2 458.6 Passing Eff. 2nd 81st Had Intercepted 0 8 Had Intercepted 5 3 Scoring Def. 3rd 120th Standings & Schedule Fumbles-Lost 6-4 8-2 Fumbles-Lost 9-4 7-4 Rushing Def. 14th 112th All times Central Penalties-Avg. Yards 28-44.8 31-40.2 Penalties-Avg. Yards 35-64.4 38-86.6 Passing Def. 20th 53rd VALLEY OVERALL Net Punt Avg. 36.7 34.6 Net Punt Avg. 40.7 35.6 Total Defense 3rd 106th W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Time of Poss./Game 32:23 27:37 Time of Poss./Game 31:32 28:28 Pass Eff. Def. 4th 117th North Dakota State 2-0 1.000 6-0 1.000 3rd Down Conversions 54% 28% 3rd Down Conversions 26% 36% Net Punting 39th 8th South Dakota State 2-0 1.000 5-1 .833 4th Down Conversions 3/4 4/11 4th Down Conversions 5/10 5/8 Punt Returns 10th 118th South Dakota 2-0 1.000 3-3 .500 Kick Returns 26th 72nd Illinois State 1-1 .500 4-2 .667 INDIVIDUAL LEADERS INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Turnover Mar. 11th 86th Indiana State 1-1 .500 3-3 .500 RUSHING Att Net Avg TD YPG RUSHING Att Net Avg TD YPG Pen Yds/Gm 25th 80th Northern Iowa 1-1 .500 3-3 .500 Ty Brooks 61 446 7.3 2 74.3 Donovan Daniels 62 121 2.0 0 24.2 Time of Poss. 14th 23rd 58 408 7.0 6 68.0 DJ Frost 28 77 2.8 0 15.4 3rd Dn Conv. 5th 122nd Missouri State 1-1 .500 1-4 .200 PASSING C-A-I Pct. TD YPG PASSING C-A-I Pct. TD YPG 3rd Dn Def. 6th 45th Youngstown State 0-2 .000 4-2 .667 Trey Lance 74-105-0 70.5 15 172.0 Peyton Huslig 111-190-5 58.4 10 241.6 4th Dn Conv. 9th 51st Southern Illinois 0-2 .000 2-4 .333 RECEIVING Rec Yds Avg TD YPG RECEIVING Rec Yds Avg TD YPG 4th Dn Def. 21st 100th Western Illinois 0-2 .000 0-6 .000 Phoenix Sproles 12 251 20.9 2 41.8 Tyler Currie 29 335 11.6 2 67.0 Christian Watson 12 199 16.6 2 33.2 Lorenzo Thomas 20 221 11.1 3 44.2 Saturday, Oct. 12 DEFENSE U-A-TT TFL Int. FF-FR DEFENSE U-A-TT TFL Int. FF-FR *at Indiana State 20, Western Illinois 10 Michael Tutsie 18-23-41 2.5 4 0-0 McNeece Egbim 24-19-43 4.0 0 0-1 *at North Dakota State 46, Northern Iowa 14 Jackson Hankey 15-21-36 5.5 0 0-0 Titus Wall 22-7-29 0.0 0 0-1 *South Dakota 45, at Missouri State 10 Jabril Cox 18-15-33 4.0 1 0-0 Angelo Garbutt 10-13-23 4.5 0 0-0 *South Dakota State 38, at Youngstown State 28 *Illinois State 21, at Southern Illinois 7 BISON ROUT NORTHERN IOWA: North Dakota State won the annual homecoming game 46-14 last week, handing Northern Iowa its worst regular-season loss since 2005. The Bison scored four Saturday, Oct. 19 unanswered touchdowns in the second half, the first coming on a 30-yard pass to tight end Noah *South Dakota State at Indiana State, 12 p.m. Gindorff two plays after Josh Hayes ended UNI’s second half opening drive with a forced *Illinois State at Western Illinois, 1 p.m. fumble that NDSU’s Marquise Bridges recovered. Hayes finished with six tackles and three pass *Youngstown State at Southern Illinois, 2 p.m. breakups and James Kaczor made seven stops for the Bison. Adam Cofield had his first *Missouri State at North Dakota State, 2:30 p.m. 100-yard game rushing 15 times for 104 yards and two touchdowns. Trey Lance was 10 *South Dakota at Northern Iowa, 4 p.m. of 18 passing for 145 yards and three TDs.

Saturday, Oct. 26 LOPSIDED WINS IN VALLEY PLAY: North Dakota State has won its last four Missouri Valley *Western Illinois at Youngstown State, 1 p.m. Football Conference games by at least 32 points dating back to last year when the Bison closed out *Northern Iowa at Missouri State, 2 p.m. the regular season with victories over unranked Missouri State (48-7) and Southern Illinois (65-17). *North Dakota St. at South Dakota St., 2 p.m. This year, the Bison have started league play beating No. 6 Illinois State (37-3) and No. 10 Northern *Indiana State at Illinois State, 2 p.m. Iowa (46-14). NDSU has never won back-to-back MVFC games by more than 30 points outside of this *Southern Illinois at South Dakota, 4 p.m. four-game stretch. Here are the five most lopsided conference wins by the Bison, who have won 16 games by at least 30 points since joining the MVFC in 2008: Largest Margin of NDSU Victory in MVFC Games 55—NDSU 55, Missouri State 0 in 2015 54—NDSU 54, South Dakota 0 in 2012 52—NDSU 52, Indiana State 0 in 2017 52—NDSU 59, Western Illinois 7 in 2015 48—NDSU 65, Southern Illinois 17 in 2018

LEAGUE LEADERS: It’s still too early for title talk just two games into the conference schedule, but eight-time reigning champion North Dakota State is in a familiar position atop the league stand- ings. NDSU has played only eight conference games since the beginning of 2011 without holding at least a share of first place in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Bison fell out of first place for three weeks in 2012, three weeks in 2015 and two weeks in 2016.

BISON ON 27-GAME WINNING STREAK: North Dakota State’s current 27-game winning streak is the second longest in FCS history behind the record 33-game Bison winning streak from 2012-14. Five Division I programs have multiple streaks of at least 27 wins including Yale and Penn with two each in the 1880s and 1890s, Oklahoma’s three in the 1950s and 1970s, and Miami (Fla.) with two from 1990-93 and 2000-03. Oklahoma owns the FBS record with 47 consecutive wins from 1953-57. FCS Longest Winning Streaks 33 - North Dakota State, 2012-14 27 - North Dakota State, 2017-present 26 - James Madison, 2016-17

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Peterson Farms Seed HOME STREAK AT 22 GAMES: North Dakota State’s 22 straight home wins is the longest active home winning streak in FCS and second longest in Division I behind Alabama’s 29 straight. It is the Bison Radio Network fourth longest in Missouri Valley Football Conference history, four shy of the conference record set NDSU football can be heard live on 25 stations by NDSU in 2015. The Bison record for consecutive home wins is 28 from 1964-69. NDSU had a 36- across North Dakota and Minnesota. Audio game home unbeaten streak 1964-71 including a 1970 season-opening tie with Eastern Michigan. streaming is free on GoBison.com/allaccess. NDSU Longest Home Winning Streaks Coverage includes 30-minute pregame and 28—Started 9/12/1964 vs. MSU Moorhead, ended 9/12/1970 by Eastern Michigan (T, 14-14) postgame shows. Head coach Matt Entz is also 26—Started 10/27/2012 vs. Southern Illinois, ended 10/17/2015 by South Dakota (L, 24-21) a guest on “The Bison Football Radio Show” each Monday during the season from 6:30 to 8 23—Started 9/13/1980 vs. Northern Arizona, ended 9/15/1984 by MSU Mankato (L, 28-21) p.m. The studio line is (701) 476-1660. 22—Started 9/2/2017 vs. Mississippi Valley State to present 22—Started 10/24/1998 vs. South Dakota State, ended 9/28/2002 by Augustana (L, 23-6) BROADCAST TEAM Jeff Culhane...... Play-By-Play MVFC Longest Home Winning Streaks Phil Hansen...... Analyst 26—North Dakota State, 2012-15 Jeremy Jorgenson...... Sidelines 25—Northern Iowa, 1989-92 23—Northern Iowa, 1983-87 LOCATION SIGNAL 22—North Dakota State, 2017-present Fargo KPFX-FM 107.9 The Fox Fargo KQWB Bison 1660/92.7 FM AGAINST THE TOP 25: NDSU’s last four victories have all come against FCS Top 25 opponents, Ada, MN KRJB-FM 106.5 and the Bison have defeated 16 ranked teams on their current 27-game winning streak. That includes Bemidji, MN KKWB-FM 102.5 12 teams ranked in the top 10 nationally, and NDSU has outscored those 12 by an average of 37-13. Bismarck KXMR-AM 710 Bowman KPOK-AM 1340 Brainerd, MN KLKS-FM 100.1 TOP-FIVE OPPONENTS: With a 27-16 win over then No. 4-ranked UC Davis, North Dakota State Detroit Lakes, MN KDLB-FM 94.5 improved to 16-1 since the beginning of the 2011 national championship season against opponents Devils Lake KDVL-FM 102.5 ranked in the top five of the Football Championship Subdivision. That includes an 9-1 record in the Dickinson KLTC-AM 1460 Fargodome, where the only loss in the past eight seasons to a top-five opponent came in the 2016 Fergus Falls, MN KBRF-AM 1250 national semifinals to James Madison, 27-17. Fosston, MN KKCQ-FM 96.7 Glenwood, MN KMGK-FM 107.1 COFIELD JOINS 100-YARD RUSHING CLUB: Junior Adam Cofield had h