{"id":740328,"date":"2026-02-09T13:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740328\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:31:18","slug":"north-dakota-state-to-join-mountain-west-for-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/740328\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota State to join Mountain West for football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-colleges \">FCS power North Dakota State football has \u201cagreed to join the Mountain West Conference in 2026.\u201d NDSU \u201cwill remain in the Summit League for all other sports except wrestling,\u201d which is in the Big 12. NDSU AD Matt Larsen noted that the MWC \u201csigned the agreement Sunday &#8230; making the move official.\u201d The move \u201cwill be spendy,\u201d with a $5M transition fee to the NCAA for FBS membership in addition to a $12.5M fee to the MWC, \u201call of which sources say will be privately raised.\u201d As part of opting in to the House settlement last summer, NDSU \u201ccan allocate up to 105 full scholarships for football, but it\u2019s doubtful they\u2019ll go beyond the old FBS maximum of 85.\u201d The FCS maximum was 63, \u201calthough with the ability to use partial scholarships, around 85 players last season were on some sort of financial aid\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inforum.com\/sports\/bison-media-zone\/mens-sports\/ndsu-agrees-to-join-mountain-west-conference-for-football\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fargo-Moorhead FORUM, 2\/8<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FCS power North Dakota State football has \u201cagreed to join the Mountain West Conference in 2026.\u201d NDSU \u201cwill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,7,14387],"class_list":["post-740328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-college-football","tag-football","tag-mountain-west-conference"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116040927748191563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}