North Dakota State continued its monstrous run with blowout win for 9th FCS championship

Who needs parity when you’ve got BISON??

Montana State had no answer for the stampeding Bison, as two-seeded North Dakota State surged to a 38-10 beatdown of the eight-seeded Bobcats at the Football Championship Subdivision title game in Frisco, Texas, on Saturday. NDSU ran for a blazing 380 yards in the game, led by running back Kobe Johnson, who had four carries for 106 yards and a touchdown, and fullback Hunter Luepke, who scored three touchdowns and was out for blood on Saturday afternoon.

The victory continued what has been an unprecedented run in college football, as the program has absolutely dominated the FCS level over the last decade and change.

While fans complain about the lack of parity at the highest level of the sport — where Alabama has spent the last 14 years reaping the rewards of hiring the greatest coach the sport has ever seen — the Bison have been casually hoarding hardware in the frozen frontier of Fargo.

North Dakota State has won nine of the last 11 national championships at the FCS level, a streak made even more impressive by the fact that it has included the tenures of three different head coaches.

Craig Bohl, the architect of the modern program, took over at NDSU in 2003 and oversaw the team’s transition to Division I from Division II in 2004. It didn’t take long for Bohl to have the program competing with the best, and he won his first national title in 2011, kicking off a winning streak that saw five-straight national titles.

Bohl left for Wyoming after the third title, but new coach Chris Klieman kept that success going.

Of his five seasons in Fargo, Klieman won the national championship in four of them and still went to the FCS semifinal in the season where he didn’t. He segued that into a job at Kansas State replacing legendary coach Bill Snyder, and the Bison turned one of the most machine-like programs we’ve ever seen over to defensive coordinator Matt Entz.

Entz started out well, winning the national title in his first season in 2019 with the future third-overall pick in the 2021 NFL draft in quarterback Trey Lance. The Bison had some uncharacteristic “struggles” during the 2021 spring season, finishing 7-3 (their worst record since 2010) and being eliminated in the quarterfinals (their worst playoff finish since 2010).

But Entz and North Dakota State are back on top of the FCS world as the final chapter of the 2021 season comes to a close, and one of the most impressive stretches of success in the history of college sports remains alive and well.

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