Montana State Hosts South Dakota in FCS Semifinal Showdown

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00:00That would be the Bobcats of Montana State from Bozeman in

00:08Bozeman. They will host the four seed South Dakota. Montana

00:12State is the favorite to win a national championship at this

00:16moment at the FCS level in today against the Coyotes of

00:20South Dakota in eight and a half point home favorite. Total

00:23fifty-six and a half. Leesy guy. You won't find two better

00:25teams running the football both offensively and defending it on

00:29the ground on the other side. Yeah. Now, this spread, you

00:32want to take the eight and a half all the time. It's a

00:34similar to what we see in terms of the Penn State SMU but I

00:37can't do that. Montana State to me is the superior team.

00:41Offensive, defensive lines, opportunistic as as well in

00:45terms of turnover margin. Yeah. I like the total Ben. Fifty-six

00:49and a half. I lean to Montana State eight and a half. I think

00:52they win it by double digits because they're the more

00:55consistent and explosive offense. Yeah. But to me, I'm

00:57intrigued with the fifty-six and a half, Dev. Give me over.

01:00I think we can get into the high 60s today. So, one angle

01:04of Montana State that is fun is II hope they go full UCF. Hang

01:10the banner. Yeah. Because they smashed Idaho who hung with the

01:13Oregon. So, like I'm talking about like hang an FBS banner

01:18which will go people get so angry. However, II just think

01:23this number's a little nuts here. You mentioned the eight

01:24and a half to nine and a half on DK. So, I'm again, I

01:28mentioned the little South Dakota, the Dakota Round Robin.

01:31Right. We'll figure it out. Yeah, yeah. You got a little

01:32Dakota Round Robin. So, that to me is relevant and it shows

01:35that again, they can kind of hang with that the level. If

01:39you look so far, I think it is fair to say that the Missouri

01:41Valley is not as or excuse me, the big sky is not as prolific

01:45as the Missouri Valley. Yeah. You did have a UC Davis team

01:49that was eleven and three. Montana State played them.

01:51Seven-point road favorite. They won the game by two. Now,

01:54it was thirty to eight and finished thirty to twenty-eight.

01:57It was a huge comeback but II don't know if it was a

02:00fraudulent backdoor. They got an onside kick recover. Yeah.

02:04They scored a touchdown with thirty-four seconds left and a

02:07two-point conversion would have tied that football game with

02:10about thirty seconds to go which also then screams to me

02:13backdoor and that's exactly what we're looking for here when

02:17we're catching these type of points. I just wanna say the

02:19only prop that you could get is in the first game, South

02:22Dakota State, North Dakota State. They're not laying any

02:25props in the second game. One of those rushing yards props

02:28are they all across the board? Across the board, everything

02:31passing, receiving. It is the bigger matchup. It's the two

02:34more known programs. It is the rivalry, the 117th all-time

02:38meeting despite MSU being the top seed in the FCS bracket in

02:43the favorites right now to win that national championship.

02:46They have played in one prior as recently as 2021. They

02:50finished just short against North Dakota State. If South

02:53Dakota, the Coyotes can pull off the upset first ever time

02:57playing in the FCS national championship game but Montana

03:01State's been routing teams so far and they're opening two

03:04games. Thirty-three point victory, thirty-two point win.

03:07They averaged three hundred and seven yards per game on the

03:11ground. I thought you were gonna say hang the FPS banner

03:14because you remember week zero, some of these things start

03:16to come back. Oh, I think we've talked about the Bobcats

03:19before in Scott Trey Humphrey and some of the guys that MSU

03:22is bringing back. They were a two touchdown favorite against

03:26Bronco Mendenhall and New Mexico in week zero. Had a

03:29really early lead before the Lobos came back in that second

03:32half. Yeah, that was that was a great game by New Mexico State.

03:34Dampierre ran wild in terms of that matchup. They got some

03:37turnovers. I will say Montana State, great home stadium.

03:41Unbelievable. You grab him on Tucky, you sit in the stand,

03:45you stare at the mountains. That's maroon, right? That's a

03:47maroon turf there. No, you're thinking of Montana. Oh, that's

03:51right. Up in Missoula. Go ahead. Yeah. Now, now, does

03:55Montana State. We're getting geography lessons here. Go

03:57ahead. Now, Malone, Malone, I mean, what do we think here?

04:01Malone. Malone. Yeah. So, Tommy Malone, could he, now, do we

04:04think there's a chance he's got eligibility left? I mean,

04:07here's, now, hear me and I'm being serious. I'm being

04:10serious. Colorado? Nine point one, eight yards, nine yards,

04:14and nine point four yards per pass. Me, a true baller,

04:17knower, knows that that's the most important statistic you

04:20can possibly have. Yeah. I, I, thank you. Uh, listen, how do

04:25you think that draft's gonna look? What are you gonna do

04:27without an LSU kid going in round one? Ah, they'll take the

04:29pencil. Portal's good. Nicky Anderson. I just wanna see if

04:31Tommy Malone can get out there getting the draft.

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