October 17, 2025 • 21 mins
This week the NDSU Football crushed Southern Illinois 17-45, Cole Payton threw for a TD and ran for two more. This weekend they're facing a struggling Indiana St. (2-4) team. But in football you can't just write a team off, TJ will give the recap and preview this weekends matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
We're now's do the Bison Bits with TJ. Jeff. Good morning,
good afternoon, good evening, wherever and whenever you're listening to this,
Thank you. I'm TJ. This is Bison Bits. We're gonna
talk a little more NDSF you football, your favorite team
and mine. Bison have another Top ten game last weekend
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against Southern Illinois. I thought the Bison would be able
to handle it. I thought they'd come off maybe a
little sluggish. Southern Illinois is gonna throw some amakers, but
the Bison would recover. And that's exactly what happened. Bison
went forty five seventeen. Southern Illinois gets ten points in
the first half, and did not score till late in
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the game off the third stringers in the fourth quarter.
The game started off a little rocky, similar to Illinois State.
Bison go up well, they go down three nothing, and
they score on the very first play they touched the ball.
Bryce Lance goes seventy five yards, Nobody touches him on
the jet sweep and it's pretty much nip and Tucket's
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a ten to ten game with about two minutes left,
just under two minutes and then the Bison get the turnover.
Defense stepped up. They were getting run on a little bit,
but the defense stepped up. Get the turnover. Byson go
right down the field deep pass to Lance and then
the touchdown passed to Bryce and it seemed to break
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Southern Illinois spirit and the game's over again. Cole Payton plays.
I don't think he plays the fourth quarter again. Bryce
Lance does not play another fourth quarter. He sits out.
The team's rested up. And it was ugly in the
second half. Southern and I really struggle. I said DJ Williams,
Southern's quarterback was going to be be hard to handle.
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After about the first quarter and a half, he wasn't
much fifteen to twenty nine for one to ninety. He
rushed for forty one yards, which led the team. And
as a team, Southern Illinois threw for one ninety because
DJ played the whole game, but they had thirty two
carries for one hundred and twenty three yards three point
eight a clip. They really did run the ball well
in the first half. Again, some different looks had nbsu's
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front seven backpedaling a little bit, and that's the concern.
I would have to say, that's a pretty big concern
as we get into a real tough part of the
schedule going into the week after this week with SDSU
and Youngstown in North Dakota, but not too much to
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worry about. The Bison again. Cole Payton thirteen of sixteen
for two forty three in a touchdown. Nathan Hayes came
in and relief was three of three. The Bison rush
for two hundred and sixty four yards, again another well
balanced It's like I think looking at the staff throughout
the game, thinking, hey, we've got too many passing yards.
We got to get the running game going. We got
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to get these yards equaled up. What the hell's going
on there? Two seventy six to the air, two sixty
four on the ground. They rush for six point one
per carry. A big, a big portion of that was
Bryce's one carry for seventy five yards. Brecampen, who had
another nice game four yards of carry. He really had
to grind it up those sixteen carries for sixty six yards.
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His longest was fourteen and then Cole Payton eight for
forty eight and had a forty one yard touchdown run
That was amazing. It was a drop back situation with
nobody open. He scrambles again, kind of drifts to his left,
goes through the line, drifts to his right, goes back
to his left, makes this curve. Nobody touches him as
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he sprints into the end zone. It was an amazing,
amazing and amazing I say it three times play receiving wise,
by the way, when a backup there forty one yards
after that, Cole had eight carries for seven yards. Which
you can be concerned about that a little bit if
you want, or you can look at it as at
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any time. He's almost hate to say it, but Barry
Sanders ask where and anytime he's going to bust one
and blow the game open. DJ Scott had six for
forty two. Nine guys ran the ball, not only that,
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not only that day hand I'm gonna count this because
i'n't counted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten eleven guys catch balls. Again. This team is distributing
things so well. If you want to lock in on
one specific player, go ahead. If you're an opposing defense,
the Bison will find ways to get the ball to
other people. The drawback there. Unfortunately, Finn Diggins might be
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out for the year. Maybe he can come back in
the playoffs. He had an injury, lower leg injury. I
know that he even blocked and helped Cole get into
the end zone, but he knew he was hurt. He
was limping on the play. He's still blocked, so but
still it's a big blow to loose Finn Diggins. But again,
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like I said, such a balanced team. This is what
we don't see from North Dakota State teams. Maybe they
throw for one hundred and fifty yards, but they're rushing
for three seventy, or they're they're throwing for one to
seventy and rushing for two seventy. This is so balanced
you have to think about it how that's just amazing.
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Looking at some team stats, I don't want to waste
all day on this. The Slookies were five of eleven
on third down. That's that's not really cool. But Bison
were eight of twelve though Cole Payton thirteen of sixteen passing.
That's just crazy. The Bison did have five penalties, are
gonna have to clean up, and they own the time
of possession thirty two forty six to twenty seven fourteen.
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Now I want to get the Cole Payton again, and
I left some stats unfortunately in my office that I
wanted to bring. But this guy again has a twenty.
His quarterback rating is too, twenty two point one that
still leads the nation FCS and SBOR FBS. He's hitting
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seventy six percent of his passes fourteen and sixty yards
and ten touchdowns. His stats at this point in the
season is almost identical, and I mean within hundreds of
yards of passing as as we saw from cam Miller.
His completion percentage is similar to cam Miller's. They each
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have ten touchdowns. That's the freaky part two. Their stats,
Cole Peyton stats and cam Miller stats are almost identical
at this point in the college football season. So we
still have to tip our hat to this young man.
He is a wrecking ball of a quarterback. He runs
that offense so well. He's he's no interceptions, He's sowing
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one hundred and four times, completed seventy nine of them.
He's averaging thirteen point six yards of pass completion. It's
freaky what he's doing, so freaky af to what he's doing.
But I would like to stop here. I know we've
talked enough about Cole deserves it. I want to talk
about if I can pull this up, I want to
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talk about this defense. I'm just gonna pull out a
stat here period for you. At the halfway point of
the season, the Bison are scoring forty four and a
half points in putting up five hundred and two yards
of offense, which they put up a little more than
that actually last week put there at five ZHO twoish.
This defense not many people are talking about. And we
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thought the defense was going to be the strength of
the team. Right now, I think it's fairly balanced. I
think they're both playing at such a high level, an
unbelievable high level. The defense is only getting giving up
ten and a half points a game, only two hundred
and thirty five yards a game. The defense is only
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giving up two one hundred and thirty five yards of offense.
You think about that, it's one hundred yard field. They're
only giving up up and down in a third of
a field poer game. In an offensive minded era of football.
This defense is coming to play week in and week out.
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Coach Polisik has them completely locked in and they fly
to the football. They're linebackers play downhill. They completely play downhill.
They're so fast, and they're so physical, and they're so athletic.
They're doing very little wrong right now. You gotta love
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NDSU's defense. We still haven't really seen their defensive backs
get pushed to the brink of anything, though, I believe
Darius Gibbons. I think it was Darius Gibbons had a
targeting penalty. So he's gonna miss the first half of
the Indiana State game coming up this Saturday. Thank god
it's the Indiana State game and not the following weekend
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where they will play South Dakota State in Brookings. But
this defense is destroying people, absolutely destroying people. And the
second half, like so many Bison teams, the second half
comes in the defense to shut stuff. They make such
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good adjustments. They are just shutting people down. Offenses can't
move Southern Illinois offense, which I think is really good.
I think this is a really good football team. They
couldn't do much. I mean, they could do very little
in the second half. The pass rusher was great, the
linebackers flowed. It's a really really good game for this defense.
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And I'm gonna try to pull up. I'm having some
problems pulling up the Bison's defensive stats, which I'm not
sure why, very frustrating, but anyway, the Bison defense is
I'm not sure where that sits in FCS. All I
know is that it is. Their defense is prolific right now.
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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in
the next so many weeks. And of course I cannot
I cannot find I cannot pull out the Bison defensive
stats because the website's down, So we're gonna move on
because it's all good, good in the hood. They travel
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to Indiana State to play the Sycamores, and this is
and the reason I'm talking about the next three games
after this week, because this could be a trap game.
It very well could be. It's possible to become a
trap game for India US when you have a game
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like NDSU going to South Dakota State in two weeks.
It's hard not to know that's coming, but you kind
of look over the top of your next opponent and
that can sneak up and bite you in the ass.
Indiana States had a really tough year. Never known as
a football program in the FCS anyway, they are a
little bit more of a basketball team. They have two
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wins on the season. They're opening week against McKendree, which
is a Division two team, I believe, and then they
be Eastern Illinois thirty eight to fourteen. After that, they
lost the number two Indiana seventy three nothing. They lost
the Montana sixty three to twenty. They lost to Southern
Illinois fifty five twenty seven, and the Bison only gave
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up seventeen there and they lost to This is weird.
They lost to South Dakota last week nineteen fourteen, in
a game that some people believe Indiana State left some
things on the table. They left some plays on the
table that could have changed the whole game period. So
this is not a real good team. They're really struggling.
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They've lost four in a row. They have not won
in the Missouri Valley this year. The Bison historically have
not always played well there. They were upset way back
and was it nine, ten, eleven, I can't remember, but
they haven't always played well there. But there's some things
Indiana State does well. That's what that's what we keep
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being told anyway, that there are things that Indiana State
does pretty well. Not to overlook this game, and I
don't think North kost State's gonna overlook it. They're led
by quarterback Kegan Patterson and he's at fifty eight percent
throwing this year. He's got three hundred and fifty seven
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yards soaring. They do use they use three quarterbacks, so
you're gonna see different quarterbacks, but they're led by Kegan Patterson.
You might see a guy by the name of Elijah
Owens who's got about three hundred and seventeen yards thrown
on the air. Rushing wise, nick o'show fifty six scaries
for one hundred and eighty four yards on the aar
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he's averaging eight point six, so he's no slouch. I mean,
and that's part of football. If you can run the
football and keep the ball away from your opponent, well,
hell's bells and you can always pull off the upset.
It's doable. And then receiving wise, they don't have a
ton of This is a real run heavy team. They
don't have a ton of receiving. They're led in receptions
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by Rashad Rochelle with two hundred and one yards receiving
on sixteen catches, so that's where they really struggle. Defensively,
they're leading sacks by defensive lineman Logan Wilson. It's not
a bad team, and they have twelve sacks on the year,
they've created interception wise, they've created three, so they've got
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some things going for them. But it's just a rough
year for them. Offensively, they're not consistent enough. But again,
if they can run the ball, which is what they
want to do, and they can run on the Bison
a little bit and they can keep the ball out
of Cole Payton's hands, all bets are off. Bison are
on the road should be. I don't know what the
weather will be. I was gonna say I knew, but
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I did not look over there, and I think that's
in Terajo, Indiana, so I don't know exactly what the
weather's going to be like. It's not a very exciting stadium,
it's not a very exciting atmosphere. Polisic has said, it's
hard to draw some energy from that place, similar to
Illinois States, kind of just there doesn't have much of
a vibe. They don't draw a lot of people to
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their games, and maybe they will a little bit more
with in the issue coming to town. The there'll be
a few thousand people there from from North Dakota State side.
But if if you're asking me what I think this
game is gonna look like, I think it's gonna be ugly.
I think they're gonna blank the Sycamores for most of
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this game till maybe a late field goal, and I'm
gonna tell you a forty one no strike that forty
three to three, the Bison will win handily. Hopefully there's
no injuries. I think you see the Bison explode right away.
Start fast, start fast. That's what this team wants to do.
Let's start fast, Let's get out in a lead, and
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let's let our front forward just go get it. Start fast,
stay fast, no slumps. They need to practice that because
they're gonna need start. They're gonna need to start fast
here after this week for sure, with the next three weeks,
they're gonna have to start fast and aggressive and then
defensively get that lead and get the offense on their
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heels and go be aggressive and attack. So I think
it's going to be forty three three ndsu, I think
you're gonna see him start fast. They're gonna open up
the playbook. You're gonna see a good mix of pass
and run again until they can get a comfortable lead,
and then they don't want any injuries. They've already got
some banged up guys. Finn Diggins is the one that
tight end, the one that probably is the most concerning,
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that contributes to most. So they want to get those
boys out of there and let those reserves play. The
importance of playing those reserves, and this is something I've
told people about the Bison for the last fifteen years,
is because they get a lot of these games, they
can get their reserves in. Those reserves, get their feet wet,
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and pretty soon they're not inexperienced underclassmen. They've got experience now,
they're used to the situation, they're used to what's going on,
they're used to game speed, they understand what they need
to do as competitors. And getting that rotation of undergrad
lower class players in I think is vital. And something
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that the Buyerson do, at least from their front from
their front seven, is they like to rotate, so they
will go deep. The Bison will play a lot more
on their front seven defensively than a lot of teams
will because of their rotations, and so getting all these
kids in there to play, that's what helps their next
man up mentality. They go deep. Guys are experienced, they're
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not afraid. They grasp what's going on. They grasp the
speed of a game. And so when this next man up,
it's truly next man up for North Dakota State, and
you're gonna see those reserves get some work, I believe
on Saturday, unless it's something really goes sideways for them,
and it could because the following week we're definitely going
to try to break that down much deeper than we
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are today. Within the NA State. The second Mars will
probably take another l And what do you do. They're
on the schedule. You can't do anything about it. They're
your opponent. You have to go after them, just like
you would if you're going to play Southern Illinois or
the Universe. See in North Dakota, it doesn't matter, and
that's what they're going to Dolisek is Poulosek fired up
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for this game. He says, I get I got to
get these guys focused and keep them locked in for
this game and not worry about what's coming down the pipe.
We got to stay focused. They fly into Indiana Indianapolis.
They have an hour drive to the stadium, so they
stay in Indianapolis, they have to drive an hour. He said,
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those are things that throw our scheduling off. So I
got to keep them focused, keep them locked into what
our game plan is. Don't let the distractions take over.
They had to do it with Illinois State. Some of
these places that North Dakota State will go to in
the Missouri Valley, They're flying to a major airport and
then having to drive an hour. It's no different than
teams that fly into play SDSU. They fly into Sioux
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Falls and then have to make that fifty minute drive
up to Brookings, and you think big deal. I get it.
But when you look at athletes and you look at
how the world of coaching is and how they keep
athletes on a schedule, what makes athletes so unique is
they are on a rigid schedule. Athletes know exactly what's
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gonna happen each day of each week during the season.
To get them off a schedule, because you have an
hour drive, it will mess with some of them. So
it's up to the coaches to mentally keep them stimulated.
How do they lock into the game plan. It's not
like you're staying at a hotel and then four blocks
down the road, you get off and then you get
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ready to go, you get dressed, you get taped. So
Politic's gonna keep them on schedule, get them focused. Let's
hope nobody gets hurt because we've got a tough, tough
stretch down the road. The playoff standings came out, which
means didd League squat to me. But they did come
out in dsu's seated number one. Right now, SDSU is two,
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Tartleton is three, Montani Monttani State is four in Montanne
five means jack squat right now because you still have one, two, three, four,
you got about five six weeks of games left. Things
can go sideways for teams and hurt. You can lose
two games and now you've dropped ten to fifteen spots. So,
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but that's the first round of playoff seedings and advice
in are number one. Nobody's debating that. But in the
top twenty five there seems to be somebody voting for
STSU every week. I don't know who that is. That's fine.
I think they're insane. I still think STSU has got
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some issues. They sure didn't go out and crush Iowa
or Northern Iowa. Last week like they should have. They
let them hang around for a half before they could
pull away. But again we'll talk about that next week.
We'll break that down and I'll try to do something special.
But Cole Payton playing great. That defense is phenomenal, giving
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up just ten points a game in two hundred and
thirty plus yards of offense. So so far, so good
for NDSU. Fifteen thousand people at the Fargo Dome last week.
Tail getting was a blast. Kind of chilly weather's turning,
but great support by EDDSU. Keep it up, folks. I
know there's not many home games left for this team.
I think there's only two. This is a really heavy
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road schedule for them. But the playoffs will come and
we'll pack the dome. And with that, I'm gonna say
audiosim he goes, thank you so much for listening. Once
you take care of yourself and each other, and until
next week, Bye bye,
We're now's do the Bison Bits with TJ. Jeff. Good morning,
good afternoon, good evening, wherever and whenever you're listening to this,
Thank you. I'm TJ. This is Bison Bits. We're gonna
talk a little more NDSF you football, your favorite team
and mine. Bison have another Top ten game last weekend
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against Southern Illinois. I thought the Bison would be able
to handle it. I thought they'd come off maybe a
little sluggish. Southern Illinois is gonna throw some amakers, but
the Bison would recover. And that's exactly what happened. Bison
went forty five seventeen. Southern Illinois gets ten points in
the first half, and did not score till late in
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the game off the third stringers in the fourth quarter.
The game started off a little rocky, similar to Illinois State.
Bison go up well, they go down three nothing, and
they score on the very first play they touched the ball.
Bryce Lance goes seventy five yards, Nobody touches him on
the jet sweep and it's pretty much nip and Tucket's
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a ten to ten game with about two minutes left,
just under two minutes and then the Bison get the turnover.
Defense stepped up. They were getting run on a little bit,
but the defense stepped up. Get the turnover. Byson go
right down the field deep pass to Lance and then
the touchdown passed to Bryce and it seemed to break
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Southern Illinois spirit and the game's over again. Cole Payton plays.
I don't think he plays the fourth quarter again. Bryce
Lance does not play another fourth quarter. He sits out.
The team's rested up. And it was ugly in the
second half. Southern and I really struggle. I said DJ Williams,
Southern's quarterback was going to be be hard to handle.
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After about the first quarter and a half, he wasn't
much fifteen to twenty nine for one to ninety. He
rushed for forty one yards, which led the team. And
as a team, Southern Illinois threw for one ninety because
DJ played the whole game, but they had thirty two
carries for one hundred and twenty three yards three point
eight a clip. They really did run the ball well
in the first half. Again, some different looks had nbsu's
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front seven backpedaling a little bit, and that's the concern.
I would have to say, that's a pretty big concern
as we get into a real tough part of the
schedule going into the week after this week with SDSU
and Youngstown in North Dakota, but not too much to
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worry about. The Bison again. Cole Payton thirteen of sixteen
for two forty three in a touchdown. Nathan Hayes came
in and relief was three of three. The Bison rush
for two hundred and sixty four yards, again another well
balanced It's like I think looking at the staff throughout
the game, thinking, hey, we've got too many passing yards.
We got to get the running game going. We got
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to get these yards equaled up. What the hell's going
on there? Two seventy six to the air, two sixty
four on the ground. They rush for six point one
per carry. A big, a big portion of that was
Bryce's one carry for seventy five yards. Brecampen, who had
another nice game four yards of carry. He really had
to grind it up those sixteen carries for sixty six yards.
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His longest was fourteen and then Cole Payton eight for
forty eight and had a forty one yard touchdown run
That was amazing. It was a drop back situation with
nobody open. He scrambles again, kind of drifts to his left,
goes through the line, drifts to his right, goes back
to his left, makes this curve. Nobody touches him as
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he sprints into the end zone. It was an amazing,
amazing and amazing I say it three times play receiving wise,
by the way, when a backup there forty one yards
after that, Cole had eight carries for seven yards. Which
you can be concerned about that a little bit if
you want, or you can look at it as at
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any time. He's almost hate to say it, but Barry
Sanders ask where and anytime he's going to bust one
and blow the game open. DJ Scott had six for
forty two. Nine guys ran the ball, not only that,
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not only that day hand I'm gonna count this because
i'n't counted one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten eleven guys catch balls. Again. This team is distributing
things so well. If you want to lock in on
one specific player, go ahead. If you're an opposing defense,
the Bison will find ways to get the ball to
other people. The drawback there. Unfortunately, Finn Diggins might be
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out for the year. Maybe he can come back in
the playoffs. He had an injury, lower leg injury. I
know that he even blocked and helped Cole get into
the end zone, but he knew he was hurt. He
was limping on the play. He's still blocked, so but
still it's a big blow to loose Finn Diggins. But again,
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like I said, such a balanced team. This is what
we don't see from North Dakota State teams. Maybe they
throw for one hundred and fifty yards, but they're rushing
for three seventy, or they're they're throwing for one to
seventy and rushing for two seventy. This is so balanced
you have to think about it how that's just amazing.
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Looking at some team stats, I don't want to waste
all day on this. The Slookies were five of eleven
on third down. That's that's not really cool. But Bison
were eight of twelve though Cole Payton thirteen of sixteen passing.
That's just crazy. The Bison did have five penalties, are
gonna have to clean up, and they own the time
of possession thirty two forty six to twenty seven fourteen.
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Now I want to get the Cole Payton again, and
I left some stats unfortunately in my office that I
wanted to bring. But this guy again has a twenty.
His quarterback rating is too, twenty two point one that
still leads the nation FCS and SBOR FBS. He's hitting
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seventy six percent of his passes fourteen and sixty yards
and ten touchdowns. His stats at this point in the
season is almost identical, and I mean within hundreds of
yards of passing as as we saw from cam Miller.
His completion percentage is similar to cam Miller's. They each
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have ten touchdowns. That's the freaky part two. Their stats,
Cole Peyton stats and cam Miller stats are almost identical
at this point in the college football season. So we
still have to tip our hat to this young man.
He is a wrecking ball of a quarterback. He runs
that offense so well. He's he's no interceptions, He's sowing
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one hundred and four times, completed seventy nine of them.
He's averaging thirteen point six yards of pass completion. It's
freaky what he's doing, so freaky af to what he's doing.
But I would like to stop here. I know we've
talked enough about Cole deserves it. I want to talk
about if I can pull this up, I want to
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talk about this defense. I'm just gonna pull out a
stat here period for you. At the halfway point of
the season, the Bison are scoring forty four and a
half points in putting up five hundred and two yards
of offense, which they put up a little more than
that actually last week put there at five ZHO twoish.
This defense not many people are talking about. And we
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thought the defense was going to be the strength of
the team. Right now, I think it's fairly balanced. I
think they're both playing at such a high level, an
unbelievable high level. The defense is only getting giving up
ten and a half points a game, only two hundred
and thirty five yards a game. The defense is only
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giving up two one hundred and thirty five yards of offense.
You think about that, it's one hundred yard field. They're
only giving up up and down in a third of
a field poer game. In an offensive minded era of football.
This defense is coming to play week in and week out.
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Coach Polisik has them completely locked in and they fly
to the football. They're linebackers play downhill. They completely play downhill.
They're so fast, and they're so physical, and they're so athletic.
They're doing very little wrong right now. You gotta love
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NDSU's defense. We still haven't really seen their defensive backs
get pushed to the brink of anything, though, I believe
Darius Gibbons. I think it was Darius Gibbons had a
targeting penalty. So he's gonna miss the first half of
the Indiana State game coming up this Saturday. Thank god
it's the Indiana State game and not the following weekend
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where they will play South Dakota State in Brookings. But
this defense is destroying people, absolutely destroying people. And the
second half, like so many Bison teams, the second half
comes in the defense to shut stuff. They make such
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good adjustments. They are just shutting people down. Offenses can't
move Southern Illinois offense, which I think is really good.
I think this is a really good football team. They
couldn't do much. I mean, they could do very little
in the second half. The pass rusher was great, the
linebackers flowed. It's a really really good game for this defense.
(10:10):
And I'm gonna try to pull up. I'm having some
problems pulling up the Bison's defensive stats, which I'm not
sure why, very frustrating, but anyway, the Bison defense is
I'm not sure where that sits in FCS. All I
know is that it is. Their defense is prolific right now.
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It'll be interesting to see how this plays out in
the next so many weeks. And of course I cannot
I cannot find I cannot pull out the Bison defensive
stats because the website's down, So we're gonna move on
because it's all good, good in the hood. They travel
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to Indiana State to play the Sycamores, and this is
and the reason I'm talking about the next three games
after this week, because this could be a trap game.
It very well could be. It's possible to become a
trap game for India US when you have a game
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like NDSU going to South Dakota State in two weeks.
It's hard not to know that's coming, but you kind
of look over the top of your next opponent and
that can sneak up and bite you in the ass.
Indiana States had a really tough year. Never known as
a football program in the FCS anyway, they are a
little bit more of a basketball team. They have two
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wins on the season. They're opening week against McKendree, which
is a Division two team, I believe, and then they
be Eastern Illinois thirty eight to fourteen. After that, they
lost the number two Indiana seventy three nothing. They lost
the Montana sixty three to twenty. They lost to Southern
Illinois fifty five twenty seven, and the Bison only gave
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up seventeen there and they lost to This is weird.
They lost to South Dakota last week nineteen fourteen, in
a game that some people believe Indiana State left some
things on the table. They left some plays on the
table that could have changed the whole game period. So
this is not a real good team. They're really struggling.
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They've lost four in a row. They have not won
in the Missouri Valley this year. The Bison historically have
not always played well there. They were upset way back
and was it nine, ten, eleven, I can't remember, but
they haven't always played well there. But there's some things
Indiana State does well. That's what that's what we keep
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being told anyway, that there are things that Indiana State
does pretty well. Not to overlook this game, and I
don't think North kost State's gonna overlook it. They're led
by quarterback Kegan Patterson and he's at fifty eight percent
throwing this year. He's got three hundred and fifty seven
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yards soaring. They do use they use three quarterbacks, so
you're gonna see different quarterbacks, but they're led by Kegan Patterson.
You might see a guy by the name of Elijah
Owens who's got about three hundred and seventeen yards thrown
on the air. Rushing wise, nick o'show fifty six scaries
for one hundred and eighty four yards on the aar
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he's averaging eight point six, so he's no slouch. I mean,
and that's part of football. If you can run the
football and keep the ball away from your opponent, well,
hell's bells and you can always pull off the upset.
It's doable. And then receiving wise, they don't have a
ton of This is a real run heavy team. They
don't have a ton of receiving. They're led in receptions
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by Rashad Rochelle with two hundred and one yards receiving
on sixteen catches, so that's where they really struggle. Defensively,
they're leading sacks by defensive lineman Logan Wilson. It's not
a bad team, and they have twelve sacks on the year,
they've created interception wise, they've created three, so they've got
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some things going for them. But it's just a rough
year for them. Offensively, they're not consistent enough. But again,
if they can run the ball, which is what they
want to do, and they can run on the Bison
a little bit and they can keep the ball out
of Cole Payton's hands, all bets are off. Bison are
on the road should be. I don't know what the
weather will be. I was gonna say I knew, but
(14:31):
I did not look over there, and I think that's
in Terajo, Indiana, so I don't know exactly what the
weather's going to be like. It's not a very exciting stadium,
it's not a very exciting atmosphere. Polisic has said, it's
hard to draw some energy from that place, similar to
Illinois States, kind of just there doesn't have much of
a vibe. They don't draw a lot of people to
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their games, and maybe they will a little bit more
with in the issue coming to town. The there'll be
a few thousand people there from from North Dakota State side.
But if if you're asking me what I think this
game is gonna look like, I think it's gonna be ugly.
I think they're gonna blank the Sycamores for most of
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this game till maybe a late field goal, and I'm
gonna tell you a forty one no strike that forty
three to three, the Bison will win handily. Hopefully there's
no injuries. I think you see the Bison explode right away.
Start fast, start fast. That's what this team wants to do.
Let's start fast, Let's get out in a lead, and
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let's let our front forward just go get it. Start fast,
stay fast, no slumps. They need to practice that because
they're gonna need start. They're gonna need to start fast
here after this week for sure, with the next three weeks,
they're gonna have to start fast and aggressive and then
defensively get that lead and get the offense on their
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heels and go be aggressive and attack. So I think
it's going to be forty three three ndsu, I think
you're gonna see him start fast. They're gonna open up
the playbook. You're gonna see a good mix of pass
and run again until they can get a comfortable lead,
and then they don't want any injuries. They've already got
some banged up guys. Finn Diggins is the one that
tight end, the one that probably is the most concerning,
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that contributes to most. So they want to get those
boys out of there and let those reserves play. The
importance of playing those reserves, and this is something I've
told people about the Bison for the last fifteen years,
is because they get a lot of these games, they
can get their reserves in. Those reserves, get their feet wet,
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and pretty soon they're not inexperienced underclassmen. They've got experience now,
they're used to the situation, they're used to what's going on,
they're used to game speed, they understand what they need
to do as competitors. And getting that rotation of undergrad
lower class players in I think is vital. And something
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that the Buyerson do, at least from their front from
their front seven, is they like to rotate, so they
will go deep. The Bison will play a lot more
on their front seven defensively than a lot of teams
will because of their rotations, and so getting all these
kids in there to play, that's what helps their next
man up mentality. They go deep. Guys are experienced, they're
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not afraid. They grasp what's going on. They grasp the
speed of a game. And so when this next man up,
it's truly next man up for North Dakota State, and
you're gonna see those reserves get some work, I believe
on Saturday, unless it's something really goes sideways for them,
and it could because the following week we're definitely going
to try to break that down much deeper than we
(17:44):
are today. Within the NA State. The second Mars will
probably take another l And what do you do. They're
on the schedule. You can't do anything about it. They're
your opponent. You have to go after them, just like
you would if you're going to play Southern Illinois or
the Universe. See in North Dakota, it doesn't matter, and
that's what they're going to Dolisek is Poulosek fired up
(18:06):
for this game. He says, I get I got to
get these guys focused and keep them locked in for
this game and not worry about what's coming down the pipe.
We got to stay focused. They fly into Indiana Indianapolis.
They have an hour drive to the stadium, so they
stay in Indianapolis, they have to drive an hour. He said,
(18:27):
those are things that throw our scheduling off. So I
got to keep them focused, keep them locked into what
our game plan is. Don't let the distractions take over.
They had to do it with Illinois State. Some of
these places that North Dakota State will go to in
the Missouri Valley, They're flying to a major airport and
then having to drive an hour. It's no different than
teams that fly into play SDSU. They fly into Sioux
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Falls and then have to make that fifty minute drive
up to Brookings, and you think big deal. I get it.
But when you look at athletes and you look at
how the world of coaching is and how they keep
athletes on a schedule, what makes athletes so unique is
they are on a rigid schedule. Athletes know exactly what's
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gonna happen each day of each week during the season.
To get them off a schedule, because you have an
hour drive, it will mess with some of them. So
it's up to the coaches to mentally keep them stimulated.
How do they lock into the game plan. It's not
like you're staying at a hotel and then four blocks
down the road, you get off and then you get
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ready to go, you get dressed, you get taped. So
Politic's gonna keep them on schedule, get them focused. Let's
hope nobody gets hurt because we've got a tough, tough
stretch down the road. The playoff standings came out, which
means didd League squat to me. But they did come
out in dsu's seated number one. Right now, SDSU is two,
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Tartleton is three, Montani Monttani State is four in Montanne
five means jack squat right now because you still have one, two, three, four,
you got about five six weeks of games left. Things
can go sideways for teams and hurt. You can lose
two games and now you've dropped ten to fifteen spots. So,
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but that's the first round of playoff seedings and advice
in are number one. Nobody's debating that. But in the
top twenty five there seems to be somebody voting for
STSU every week. I don't know who that is. That's fine.
I think they're insane. I still think STSU has got
(20:37):
some issues. They sure didn't go out and crush Iowa
or Northern Iowa. Last week like they should have. They
let them hang around for a half before they could
pull away. But again we'll talk about that next week.
We'll break that down and I'll try to do something special.
But Cole Payton playing great. That defense is phenomenal, giving
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up just ten points a game in two hundred and
thirty plus yards of offense. So so far, so good
for NDSU. Fifteen thousand people at the Fargo Dome last week.
Tail getting was a blast. Kind of chilly weather's turning,
but great support by EDDSU. Keep it up, folks. I
know there's not many home games left for this team.
I think there's only two. This is a really heavy
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road schedule for them. But the playoffs will come and
we'll pack the dome. And with that, I'm gonna say
audiosim he goes, thank you so much for listening. Once
you take care of yourself and each other, and until
next week, Bye bye,
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