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When North Dakota State College of Science suffered a heartbreaking loss in early September — foiled at the goal line as time expired in a jolt to their national championship ambitions — it was a backup defensive lineman who stepped forward with a pep talk to lift the locker room. Forget it, year-old Ray Ruschel said, according to his junior college teammates. Focus on the rest of the season and things will work out. Watch the video above to hear from Ruschel, the coach and his teammates.
He said we just have to put the emotion to the side and we still got the rest of the season and playoffs to show who we are. When it comes to inspiration, the Wildcats could do worse than look to Ruschel's own story, and the path that brought him to a small, vocational-minded school in the wide shadow cast by nearby NCAA power North Dakota State. After nearly two decades in the Army and National Guard, Ruschel was working as a night-shift mechanic at a North Dakota sugar beet factory when he decided to enroll at the College of Science.
The school offers two-year programs in manufacturing, skilled trades, health care, and the liberal arts. That sounded good to Ruschel, who hoped to move up at the factory and decided to study business management.
Then he learned the school had a football team among its six sports — and that, despite his age, he was eligible. When Ruschel asked head coach Eric Issendorf — one year younger — for a tryout, Issendorf said sure, even though he worried that Ruschel might get hurt. Instead, Ruschel has held his own and earned the respect of the other players.
He now plays about a dozen snaps a game. His personality Luke Weerts LB. Logan Kopp LB. Oscar Benson LB. Marques Sigle CB. Julian Wlodarczyk LB. Jake Kava DE. Spencer Waege DE. Tony Pierce DE. Will Mostaert DT. Dom Jones S. Jayden Price CB. Sam Jung S. Loshiaka Roques DE. Jaxon Duttenhefer DT. Javier Derritt DT. Eli Mostaert DT. Kody Huisman DT. Ryan Jones S. Anthony Coleman CB. Reed Ryan DE. Dylan Taves LB.
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The season saw quarterback Easton Stick finish his college career with a record of 49—3, the highest win total for any quarterback in FCS history. They were served fast food, as was FBS-champion Clemson. The Bison won this matchup, This marked the first time SDSU had won multiple games in a row in the Marker series since when the Jacks won back to back marker games against the Bison.
They ended up winning, , as FB Hunter Luepke ran for 3 touchdowns in the first half. The Bison have been the runner-up three times , , and have appeared in a total of 19 national championship games. The Bison have an overall record of 41—3 in postseason play since becoming eligible in , including a record streak of 22 consecutive playoff wins from to NDSU appeared in seven out of 10 Championship games from to ; including appearing in four straight Championship games, an unrivaled number in DII as they posted a —16—2.
While this is a startling record, from to the Bison went 90—12—1. The Bison are 25—16 against Northern Iowa all time. Kleiman, in particular, played football at Northern Iowa and spent two separate stints on the Panther coaching staff.
The two schools played every season from to as members of the North Central Conference. Northern Iowa won the first three battles, with the edition marked by a sideline fight between the two sides.
In the early s North Dakota State-UNI was regularly one of the highest-profile games of the season, and the two considered each other to be top rivals. The herd won the matchup 27—19 in a game sometimes regarded as the start of the NDSU dynasty. Two seasons later NDSU would again host UNI in a top-five matchup, the Herd won the game by a narrow margin of 24—23, by far the closest matchup of the season. The following year the Panthers would be the team to end NDSU's record-breaking 33 game winning streak, thoroughly thrashing the three-time defending champions 23—3.
The edition of the rivalry was one of the most interesting in the series, and is considered one of the greatest games in NDSU history. The game was announced as homecoming before the season, the day started with SportsCenter 's "On the Road Show" broadcasting live from the Fargodome. The 3 Bison trailed nearly all-game before Carson Wentz hit future Green Bay Packers receiver Darrius Shepherd who didn't play most of the first half due to injury in the endzone for the game-winning touchdown with less than a minute remaining.
Matt Entz is the 31st and current head coach of the Bison, taking over after the team won the FCS championship game. He succeeded Chris Klieman , who was named as the replacement for the retiring Bill Snyder as head coach of Kansas State University during the playoff run. Klieman continued to serve as the Bison's head coach throughout NDSU's playoff run, finishing his five seasons in Fargo — with a 69—6 record and four FCS national championships, failing to win the title only in Craig Bohl holds the record for most wins in school history with in his year career averaging over 9.
Ron Erhardt holds the record for most conference titles won with 6, followed by Rocky Hager and Klieman with 5 each. The Bison have played in the Fargodome since it opened in It holds 18, for football games and over 19, including standing room only tickets.
The record attendance at the Fargodome is 19, when the Bison played Missouri State on October 12, The Bison have only lost one playoff game in the history of the Fargodome. The tremendous crowd noise caused by the Fargodome's steel roof disrupts many opposing offenses and creates one of the best home field advantages in college football. In , the Fargodome was ranked as the 49th best stadium in all of college football. That effect is only amplified in a playoff atmosphere.
In , Stadium Journey ranked the Fargodome as the 2 Best FCS stadium to experience a game in [30] On December 10, in a game against Lehigh , the crowd noise was measured at decibels, comparable to when the New Orleans Saints play in the Superdome. During the playoffs, the decibel level spiked past decibels several times but was not an official measurement.
The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead conducted an informal study of Fargodome crowd noise from the press box during a playoff semifinal game, December The readings showed a high of decibels following a late touchdown by quarterback Brock Jensen. The decibel meter consistently read — throughout that game, according to The Forum. NDSU to study decibel levels at playoff football game During the Furman playoff game, the crowd noise was measured at decibels.
The record for the loudest indoor stadium crowd was set in at the Sacramento Kings' former home of Sleep Train Arena at decibels. Due to the notorious noise, the Fargodome is sometimes referred to as the "Thunderdome".
An example of this loudness can be found when the Bison offense advances the ball and gets a "first down". Although an announcer declaring a "first down" is not unique to the Fargodome, the audience's response along with the prompt to move the chains is fairly unique to the Fargodome.
This tradition was started back in the days when the team played in Dacotah Field. The crowd would do the traditional chant after every Bison first down and it was carried over to the FargoDome when the team played its first game in the new facility. Prior to the Fargodome, the team played at Dacotah Field from to Announced schedules as of May 25, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Main article: Nickel Trophy. Main article: Dakota Marker. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
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The title was their ninth overall. Expectations were high entering the season. The Bison took a quick lead, but let a 7—7 halftime score get away from them; trailing 21—7 in the third quarter.
The Bison finished the season 15—0 with a victory over the Towson Tigers , 35—7. Despite a cast of new coaches, the Bison finished the season with a 15—1 record, including another win over Big 12 Iowa State and won their fourth consecutive national championship.
The Bison basketball program includes a men's and a women's team. The women's basketball team was a dominant force in Division II throughout the s. The men's basketball team won an upset victory over the University of Wisconsin on January 21, , potentially increasing its chances of being accepted into a conference.
The Bison also upset Marquette University on their home court at their tournament, 64—60, on December 2, The Bison defeated Centenary 83—77 in the tourney quarterfinals, stopped Southern Utah 79—67 in the semifinals, and edged Oakland 66—64 in the championship game. The Bison traveled to Minneapolis for a first-round game with the defending national champions, the Kansas Jayhawks, and fell 84— NDSU's tournament appearance marked the first time in almost 35 years that a Division I men's program qualified for the tournament in its first season of eligibility.
The team is a member of the Big 12 Conference. The — season was when the school first became fully eligible for Division I competition.
In December NDSU's women's volleyball team captured the Summit League's regular season and tournament championships doing so with a perfect league record to become the first program at the school to earn a berth in a Division I NCAA tournament. The Bison dropped their opening round match to the University of Minnesota. In the spring of , the Bison women's softball team won the Summit League tournament in Macomb, Illinois, becoming the school's third team to appear in an NCAA tournament in the calendar year.
In its opening game in May, the Bison upset 9th-ranked Oklahoma, 1—0, in an inning game that spanned two days due to a weather delay. The Bison won the regional with victories over Tulsa, 3—2 and 4—1, to advance to the Super Regional Sweet Sixteen of the tournament, where they were eliminated. In fall , the Bison women's soccer team achieved the program's first NCAA tournament bid with a victory over Western Illinois in the Summit League tournament final.
The mascot, which resembles the American Bison , comes from the term "thundering herd," a nickname given to NDSU athletic teams since changing its name from "Aggies" to "Bison" in The monthly magazine brings readers behind the scenes coverage of NDSU teams, players, coaches, administration, and alumni. The magazine is distributed free of charge in locations around the Fargo-Moorhead area and is available via paid subscription for out-of-state readers.
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