2005 North Dakota State Bison football team
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| Sports Network | No. 20 |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 Cal Poly +^ | 4 | – | 1 | 9 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| UC Davis + | 4 | – | 1 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| North Dakota State | 3 | – | 2 | 7 | – | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| South Dakota State | 3 | – | 2 | 6 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Southern Utah | 1 | – | 4 | 1 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Northern Colorado | 0 | – | 5 | 4 | – | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2005 North Dakota State Bison football team represented North Dakota State University in the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The team was led by third-year head coach Craig Bohl and played their homes game at the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota. The Bison finished the season with an overall record of 7–4 and tied for second place in the Great West Conference with a mark of 3–2. Despite being ranked #20 at the end of the year, North Dakota State was ineligible for the NCAA Division I-AA playoffs per NCAA rules that mandated a four-year probationary period for programs entering NCAA Division I-AA. The Bison were ranked in the top-25 in 10 of the 11 weeks in the season.
Schedule
September 17:00 PMArkansas-Monticello*No. 22
W 59-7 13,793 September 106:00 PMat No. 9 Northwestern State*No. 20
W 35-7 13,252 September 176:00 PMWeber State*No. 12
- Fargodome
- Fargo, ND
W 41-0 14,368 September 241:00 PMat No. 18 Montana State*No. 8
L 17-20 13,327 October 16:00 PMNo. 21 Nicholls State*No. 13
- Fargodome
- Fargo, ND (Trees Bowl)
W 26-13 14,022 October 86:00 PMat No. 9 Cal PolyNo. 12
L 6-37 6,923
October 221:00 PMUC Davis
No. 17
- Fargodome
- Fargo, ND
L 14-20 16,193 October 296:00 PMat Southern Utah
W 37-21 1,621 November 51:00 PMat Northern ColoradoNo. 24
- Fargodome
- Fargo, ND (Harvest Bowl)
W 44-0 10,809 November 126:00 PMSouth Dakota StateNo. 22
- Fargodome
- Fargo, ND (Dakota Marker)
W 41-17 15,777 November 193:00 PMNo. 11 Southern IllinoisNo. 20
L 0-9 5,809