North Dakota·Big Sky

2015 — The 2015 Season

North Dakota's 2015 season (7-4) is a middle chapter: table-stakes progress, no crown in the ledger, the program still writing the book.

Record 7-4
Final result No postseason
AP final — post-bowls
SP+ -6.1 last-week
Era —
The shape of the season · week by week, cumulative W-L below
W @ Wyoming 24-13 W vs Drake 21-18 L @ Nort Sta 9-34 W vs UC Davis 31-24 W @ Port Sta 19-17 L vs Idah Sta 31-37 L @ Webe Sta 24-25 L @ Montana 16-42 W vs Mont Sta 44-38 W vs Nort Col 45-14 W @ Cal Poly 45-21
Defining moments
The statement

The 2015 season's largest margin: North Dakota 45, Northern Colorado 14. A 31-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The setback

The season's deepest loss: North Dakota 16, Montana 42. A 26-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Go Hawks"
— North Dakota fanbase voice · 2015· synthesized
What it meant

2015 is a middle chapter for North Dakota — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.