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Bison get No. 2 seed for FCS playoffs, host winner of NAU, San Diego

FARGO-North Dakota State moved up two spots in the FCS Football Playoff Committee rankings and will take the No. 2 seed into the playoffs. The field was announced Sunday morning on ESPNU.The Bison will get a first round bye and play the winner of...

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FARGO-North Dakota State moved up two spots in the FCS Football Playoff Committee rankings and will take the No. 2 seed into the playoffs. The field was announced Sunday morning on ESPNU.

The Bison will get a first round bye and play the winner of San Diego and Northern Arizona on Saturday, Dec. 2. San Diego won the Pioneer League and NAU is an at-large entrant from the Big Sky Conference.

NDSU finished the regular season 10-1, with their only loss to fifth-seeded South Dakota State. It's the eighth straight playoff appearance for NDSU, which won an NCAA-record five straight championships from 2011-15.

Top-seeded James Madison ended that run in the semifinals last season. The Dukes ripped through the regular season unbeaten and carry an 11-0 mark into postseason, a record that is part of 23 straight victories.

It was a busy Sunday for the Missouri Valley Football Conference, which put five teams into the field. Besides NDSU and SDSU, Western Illinois, Northern Iowa and South Dakota made the field.

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The Bison won the Valley title outright on Saturday with a 20-7 win at Illinois State, the seventh straight conference championship either solo or shared for NDSU. It was the sixth win over a top 25-ranked team for the Bison.

Jeff would like to dispel the notion he was around when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, but he is on his third decade of reporting with Forum Communications. The son of a reporter and an English teacher, and the brother of a reporter, Jeff has worked at the Jamestown Sun, Bismarck Tribune and since 1990 The Forum, where he's covered North Dakota State athletics since 1995.
Jeff has covered all nine of NDSU's Division I FCS national football titles and has written three books: "Horns Up," "North Dakota Tough" and "Covid Kids." He is the radio host of "The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack" April through August.

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