Which FCS teams WILL move to FBS next? *Conference Realignment*

My how they have improved. North Dakota State and South Dakota State were D-II powerhouses 20 years ago. To now dominate FCS and possibly make it to FBS, WOW!

I work with the NDSU football team as a student equipment manager! Would love to see us in the FBS. But we just had a renovation proposal that while it wouldn’t give us a translucent roof, it would give us more standing room areas and even an attached convention center!

I love the Fargo dome ! I crossed the finish line last year in the Fargo marathon at 2:48:59 and the atmosphere was electric even for a marathon race!

Sacramento State could be a possibility too. There’s no FBS team in that area, only in the SF Bay Area (Cal, Stanford, San Jose State). Plus the TV market for Sacramento is much larger than any of the schools you mentioned in this video (except Villanova). They could be a rival to a school like either Nevada (based in Reno, NV) or San Jose State. Their field Hornet Stadium would have to add in another 10K seats to get it to over 30k seats in total capacity. Sacramento area would back another team, especially a local college program as they only have the NBA’s Kings.

NDSU and SDSU would be slam dunk additions. I cant wait for colorado vs north dakota state in August

I question the ACC, that if you want a West Wing, why not admit Oregon State and Washington State? I’d say 4 is good enough, no? If they want 6 in the west then SDSU and UNLV are probably the MW teams, based on market size. SDSU and NDSU replace in the MW.

Eastern Washington showed a lot of interest on promoting their football program but their stadium has just about more than 8000 seats so they would have to upgrade their stadium, Idaho is also an interesting one, they are former WAC and Sun Belt members who before the Sun Belt's possible collapse they downgraded their football program, so I see them moving back up

Correction: College GameDay has never been to the University of Montana. They HAVE been to Montana State University in Bozeman, which host Rece Davis named as his top location of their 2022 season.

Honestly Ferris State and Grand Valley out of D2 could be here eventually. Dominant programs and should be at least FCS soon

The in thing I will say that is West Georgia just moved up and is in the same conference as Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Southern Utah, etc. should be interesting to see D2 schools move to FCS and FCS to FBS. Gotta love college football

The only question is would these schools would want to leave and move from being big fish in a small pond to minnows in an ocean. There chances of winning national championships goes to slim to none with the weight being on the none side. But I think they all including Villanova play great football and would be great additions to FBS.

College Football became NIL money simulator and pay recruits millions of dollars to play for the team. You just gotta have lots of money for you to compete.

Proud NDSU alum! Great video 🤘🏾

Winning a couple bowl games with in couple years could payed off the $5 Million. Also MW T.V. dealis $3M after a couple years too

As a delaware fan, I'm familiar with all of these teams and the only one that I think is viable is Montana NDSU and SDSU are great teams, but they feast in the FCS and arent interested in giving up program success, otherwise they would have moved up already by now. They also just don't have the money to make travel worth it, if you look at the mountain west, both of those schools are closer to big 10 and big 12 schools than any of the mountain west schools. I think Dalukes had a good video on why NDSU and SDSU wouldn't join the mountain west where he looks at the program finances. There is no major airport near either of these schools. Villanova is an interesting case, you would think that due to their basketball success and built in rivalries with Delaware and James Madison, (former CAA conference-mates with both and history with playing Delaware since 1895) and less so Temple, (just because of proximity to philadelphia), it's a good fit, but an interesting tidbit is that Radnor Township where Villanova is based has a law about how "average building height" can't be over a few stories tall (I don't remember the exact height) but it's why their basketball stadium looks so strange, it's got those tall peaks on the corners and sinks down in the middle, it's because of the township law on average building height. I would like to see Villanova join the FBS so maybe down the line UD, JMU, Villanova, maybe UConn, Navy, Army, UMass, Temple and Boston College could all be in a conference together, but that would require Villanova either getting around the Radnor Township laws OR building a michigan-style in-ground stadium which doesn't go a certain height above ground level, which would be insanely expensive and couldn't happen on the land they use currently due to footprint. Montana is close enough to the Mountain West schools to make their addition viable and I think is the most likely of these schools to move up, they share a border with Boise State and are close enough to Wyoming, Washington State, and other schools in the area. They also don't make an insane amount of money per year and there also isnt a major airport near Missoula (I tried to go to the Delaware @ Montana FCS Playoff game but it wouldve taken so much money and time to go because of their location) but of these four schools I think Montana would be the most prepared to make the jump if they wanted to

Its so weird being from South Dakota and seeing important sport stuff happening. Not just Mount Rushmore anymore 😂

I am stunned you didnt mention Idaho. All 4 dakotas are travel outliers and dont wanna move up, and while the Montana schools are more likely, MSU had to help fund UMs marching band to be able to play at the national championship. Idaho is the FCS school who is most likely, they were FBS barely a decade ago and have been fighting like absolute hell to get back

Unfortunately these aren't the only factors. On average travel is ~10% of an athletic budget, and that would balloon quickly being in such remote areas. The Montanas could get away with the MWC maybe, but the Dakota States have no realistic options. Personally I like UC Davis, Sac State, Missouri State, Chattanooga, or Eastern Kentucky.

Furman would be an awesome team to bring to the FBS

Fargo just held a vote in December to renovate and add a convention center to the FARGODOME. It ended up falling which is a big shame. I regularly shoot the football games there and it needs some serious upgrades