The wins, although against shitty FBS teams, have been impressive. I'll be the first to grant that.
I'm not saying there is absolutely no way on God's green earth that y'all can't pull the upset, but it's VERY unlikely as you've already mentioned. People point to the EKU game a couple years ago and fail to realize that they basically forfeited their next game or two by playing a junk defense against us that they'd never shown before and didn't use again all season. Took most of the game to finally adjust. Is what it is and I just don't see Bohl doing something like that because y'all have FAR more on the line long term.
People also like to point to the Mo State game from last year, but again fail to realize that we had "Da U" coming to town the following week. So, it doesn't take a veteran 'capper to figure out that our kids were looking ahead to week two last season. Once we settled in, it was a total ass-beating.
I am fortunate to know some people within the program still and NDSU has our team and coaches' full attention. We may have some fans who think y'all are just another cupcake, but the more intelligent fans and our team/staff know the real deal. I've said before, and will say again, that I think this game goes much like the UGA vs GSU game or the Wofford vs USCe game of last year... Close for a half, then we pull away and win comfortably.
At any rate, I hope both teams benefit from the competition and nobody gets hurt.