North Dakota State's 2023 playoff run will take it outside of Fargo for the first time during a fall season since 2010 Saturday, when they face Montana State.

 

Ironically enough, the last time the Bison had to go on the road for the postseason in a "normal" season was in Bozeman, a 42-17 win over the Bobcats.

It was a monumental win for the program, that sent the Bison on to the FCS quarterfinals and an eventual loss to the national champs that year, Eastern Washington.

 

The 2023 crew will come to Bobcat Stadium eager to keep its hot play going, where the Bison have scored 38, 48 and 66 points in the last three games.

 

Montana State enters off a bye week, earned for being selected as the six seed. MSU though, lost two of its final four games, including a 37-7 rout to Montana in the Brawl of the Wild.

 

With the game as the backdrop; it's also a wildly busy week on the college football front. The head coaching carousel has been busy spinning and the transfer portal has been active all around the Missouri Valley.

 

There's speculation that several Bison players may be targeted by bigger schools to potentially transfer whenever the NDSU season ends. The guys discuss who may be targeted and what, if anything, NDSU can do about it.

 

The Forum's Jeff Kolpack and WDAY's Dom Izzo preview the matchup and also discuss the other playoff games as the field will be trimmed to eight teams by the end of the day Saturday.