No, it’s NOT the North Dakota State Bison; Nebraska is playing the North Dakota F’n Hawks in the home opener on Labor Day weekend. Nebraska Omaha hockey fans are well aware of NoDak, who are UNO’s designated rival in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, the nation’s premier college hockey conference. The NCHC is to hockey what the SEC thinks they are to football; NCHC teams have won four of the last five national championships with two runner-up finishes.
But this is football, not hockey. And while the Hawks aren’t the Bison, NoDak has been a fairly solid 1-AA football program.