Herd, AO54, etc.
All the Gopher, or at least most of them, fans are saying is "It's time to move up to FBS." Join the MWC. See how you would do against Boise, Colorado St, Utah St, & Fresno.
One would need an invite, but it looks like the top 4 in the Valley would fit in just fine in the MWC and MAC. Would need an extra 4 million for 44 scholarships, but Ndsu could definitely compete there based on previous games vs. Ball, Central MI, CO State and Wyo. Here are the 2015 sagarin ratings. What does winning the MWC or MAC get you? It should get you an opportunity at a play-in game for the FBS Playoffs, but it does not. I've said it before, there should be a 12 team playoff including Top 4 Conf Champs, 3 of the other 6 Conferences that win a Play-In Game, and 5 At Large Bids (4 + 3 + 5). Then you'd have my interest to join a G5 FBS conference. Crappy Bowl game, not really interested.
11 MWC-MOUNTAIN (A) = 66.80 66.41 ( 11) TEAMS= 6 66.64 ( 11)
FINAL College Football 2014 through games of 2015 January 12 Monday - National Championship Game
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 2.77] [ 2.78] [ 2.69] [ 2.94]
36 Boise State A = 77.33 12 2 64.81( 74) 0 1 | 0 1 | 74.13 46 | 76.17 40 | 85.36 17
52 Utah State A = 72.65 10 4 62.37( 95) 0 0 | 0 1 | 72.19 55 | 71.77 56 | 74.43 45
65 Colorado State A = 69.39 10 3 62.06( 101) 0 0 | 0 1 | 67.47 72 | 67.92 69 | 75.07 42
75 Air Force A = 67.74 10 3 59.50( 118) 0 0 | 0 0 | 67.27 75 | 65.50 86 | 73.37 48
126 Wyoming A = 56.26 4 8 65.55( 70) 0 2 | 0 2 | 55.42 128 | 55.86 129 | 57.24 117
132 New Mexico A = 55.11 4 8 62.83( 93) 0 0 | 0 1 | 53.36 142 | 55.59 130 | 55.13 128
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17 MWC-WEST (A) = 57.52 57.13 ( 17) TEAMS= 6 57.24 ( 17)
FINAL College Football 2014 through games of 2015 January 12 Monday - National Championship Game
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 2.77] [ 2.78] [ 2.69] [ 2.94]
90 Nevada A = 64.18 7 6 63.34( 88) 0 0 | 0 0 | 65.12 84 | 63.14 97 | 64.47 85
91 San Diego State A = 64.10 7 6 59.48( 119) 0 0 | 0 0 | 64.60 88 | 64.62 90 | 61.32 98
111 Fresno State A = 59.02 6 8 64.91( 73) 0 0 | 0 3 | 59.29 112 | 58.16 117 | 59.68 105
123 Hawai'i A = 56.62 4 9 63.88( 81) 0 0 | 0 0 | 54.61 136 | 57.81 118 | 55.33 127
153 San Jose State A = 52.01 3 9 64.12( 78) 0 0 | 0 1 | 52.00 150 | 52.08 152 | 50.83 152
172 UNLV A = 46.87 2 11 63.37( 87) 0 0 | 0 0 | 47.67 172 | 47.03 173 | 44.41 176
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12 MISSOURI VALLEY (AA)= 64.12 64.35 ( 12) TEAMS= 10 64.34 ( 12)
FINAL College Football 2014 through games of 2015 January 12 Monday - National Championship Game
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 2.77] [ 2.78] [ 2.69] [ 2.94]
32 North Dakota State AA = 79.73 15 1 59.98( 112) 0 0 | 0 0 | 78.59 33 | 77.86 34 | 86.22 16
41 Illinois State AA = 75.14 13 2 60.19( 111) 0 0 | 0 0 | 73.65 49 | 73.72 47 | 80.20 30
55 Northern Iowa AA = 72.15 9 5 61.16( 106) 0 0 | 0 0 | 72.16 56 | 72.64 52 | 70.04 57
67 South Dakota State AA = 69.09 9 5 63.65( 82) 0 0 | 0 1 | 69.22 68 | 67.43 73 | 72.09 51
92 Indiana State AA = 63.91 8 6 63.32( 91) 0 0 | 0 0 | 64.34 91 | 62.81 99 | 64.97 82
108 Southern Illinois AA = 60.65 6 6 61.76( 103) 0 0 | 0 0 | 61.78 103 | 60.48 106 | 58.65 110
110 Youngstown State AA = 60.15 7 5 57.80( 133) 0 0 | 0 0 | 58.42 113 | 59.65 108 | 62.53 91
113 Missouri State AA = 58.60 4 8 63.51( 85) 0 0 | 0 0 | 59.63 111 | 58.89 113 | 55.62 126
118 Western Illinois AA = 57.61 5 7 64.37( 76) 0 0 | 0 1 | 55.38 130 | 57.06 124 | 60.73 101
175 South Dakota AA = 46.46 2 10 65.94( 68) 0 1 | 0 1 | 47.97 170 | 46.42 176 | 43.51 184
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19 MAC-EAST (A) = 53.09 52.90 ( 19) TEAMS= 7 52.91 ( 19)
FINAL College Football 2014 through games of 2015 January 12 Monday - National Championship Game
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 2.77] [ 2.78] [ 2.69] [ 2.94]
119 Bowling Green A = 57.25 8 6 59.08( 125) 0 0 | 0 1 | 55.59 125 | 56.79 125 | 59.45 106
134 Akron A = 54.88 5 7 55.72( 138) 0 0 | 0 1 | 54.05 139 | 57.62 119 | 48.28 162
135 Ohio A = 54.88 6 6 58.75( 127) 0 0 | 0 1 | 54.50 137 | 55.23 134 | 53.48 135
141 Buffalo A = 53.57 5 6 52.62( 151) 0 1 | 0 1 | 53.48 141 | 55.15 135 | 48.84 160
154 Massachusetts A = 51.72 3 9 58.00( 131) 0 0 | 0 0 | 53.16 145 | 53.25 143 | 44.87 175
159 Miami-Ohio A = 50.33 2 10 60.95( 108) 0 0 | 0 1 | 51.19 156 | 52.59 148 | 42.15 189
169 Kent State A = 47.65 2 9 59.64( 117) 0 1 | 0 1 | 47.70 171 | 49.51 163 | 41.68 191
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14 MAC-WEST (A) = 61.61 59.95 ( 16) TEAMS= 6 61.09 ( 14)
FINAL College Football 2014 through games of 2015 January 12 Monday - National Championship Game
RATING W L SCHEDL(RANK) VS top 10 | VS top 30 | GOLDEN_MEAN | PREDICTOR | ELO_SCORE
HOME ADVANTAGE=[ 2.77] [ 2.78] [ 2.69] [ 2.94]
72 Northern Illinois A = 68.15 11 3 59.13( 122) 0 1 | 0 2 | 66.12 83 | 67.15 75 | 72.50 50
73 Toledo A = 68.05 9 4 61.48( 104) 0 0 | 0 1 | 66.45 81 | 68.10 68 | 69.01 66
88 Western Michigan A = 64.87 8 5 58.65( 129) 0 0 | 0 0 | 64.48 90 | 65.78 84 | 62.29 95
101 Central Michigan A = 62.09 7 6 59.90( 114) 0 0 | 0 0 | 63.29 95 | 62.43 101 | 58.82 108
117 Ball State A = 57.72 5 7 58.69( 128) 0 0 | 0 0 | 58.36 114 | 58.51 116 | 54.06 130
208 Eastern Michigan A = 38.81 2 10 62.24( 97) 0 1 | 0 2 | 36.60 211 | 38.49 209 | 41.02 199
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