I've decided to stop overlooking this football juggernaut that has recently come to my attention is just the '85 Bears continuing to play as the fighting bufflaloes of Northern Dakota.
IMHO, the only way to do an unbiased comparison of this game is to use last year's final Sagarin ratings and this season's preseason ranking. K-State has a preseason ranking of #26. NDSU's final Sagarin rating last year was #35. NDSU has nearly everyone back so comparing last year's Bison team to this years preseason K-State seems reasonable to me.
Assuming last year's #26 Sagarin team is the same as this year's preseason #26 ranking, we see the difference between #26 and #35 is a whopping 2.32 pts(not considering home field advantage). How do you like them apples? Or should I say "Little Apples"?
