Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

We definitely de-winged North Dakota.

It's not a novelty for them as much as it is in western North Dakota.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

[North Dakota] and [St.Cloud State] are No. 2 and No. 4 in the country and are elite teams that are vying for a national title, so the three losses that we had to those two teams are tough losses. The No. 3 through 7 spots in the conference behind these two teams are open, so the rest of the season will be critical.