FARGO — Let the second season in Division I Football Championship Subdivision begin, and it didn’t come without a surprise. North Dakota State got the No. 1 seed as expected and the road to Nashville will have to go through Fargo or Bozeman, Montana.

The Bison will get a first round bye and play the winner of Illinois State at Southeastern Louisiana on Dec. 6 at 1 p.m. Montana State, which won the Big Sky Conference title by beating Montana on Saturday, is the second seed. NDSU defeated the Bobcats in last year’s FCS title game.

“You have to stay focused on 1-0, as boring as it sounds to say that, we’re constantly fighting complacency here,” NDSU head coach Tim Polasek said on the selection show. “The one thing that is helpful is we’re playing to the standard that was set by so many play

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