2020 North Dakota State Bison football team


The 2020 North Dakota State Bison football team will represent North Dakota State University in the 2020 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They are led by second-year head coach Matt Entz. The team plays in the Fargodome in Fargo, North Dakota, for the 28th season as members of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. They entered the season as defending national champions, having won eight of the prior nine FCS titles.

Previous season

In 2019, the Bison finished the regular season 12–0, the second consecutive undefeated Bison season, and won their ninth consecutive MVFC title. They received an automatic qualifying bid to the FCS Playoff Tournament and were seeded as the No. 1 team. The Bison then went 4–0 in the FCS playoffs to finish 16–0 as FCS champions, becoming the first team at any level of college football to finish a season 16–0 since Yale in 1894. They also extended their FCS-record winning streak to 37 games.

Preseason

MVFC poll

Preseason All–MVFC team

Schedule

NDSU had games scheduled against Oregon, Drake, and North Carolina A&T that were cancelled before the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personnel

Roster

Recruiting Class

Game summaries

at Northern Iowa

Illinois State

at Indiana State

South Dakota State

Youngstown State

at Missouri State

North Dakota

at South Dakota

Ranking movements

;AP Poll
;FCS polls