Isaac Newton

Ed Meierkort believes his team was playing good football during South Dakota's four-game losing streak in October.  

Chris Ganious ran for 170 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as South Dakota defeated Southern Utah 45-21.  

Chris Ganious ran for 170 yards and two touchdowns Saturday as South Dakota defeated Southern Utah 45-21.  

The Southern Utah football team will look to lock up at least a share of the Great West Conference Championship Saturday when it travels to Vermillion, S.D. to take on the South Dakota Coyotes in the DakotaDome. The T-Birds (4-4, 2-1 Great West) enter the game tied with North Dakota, who they beat 35-10 on Oct. 24, for the conference lead. The T-Birds' lone conference loss was the 24-23 heartbreaker at Cal Poly on Oct. 17.

especially for people who have been here a long time and seen the program go from having an 0-11 season to having respect across the country.   -Ed Lamb

 

The Coyote football team took a 17-14 advantage over Northern Colorado into the fourth quarter, but the Bears (3-6, 1-5 Big Sky) scored a late touchdown to hand USD (3-5, 0-2 Great West) another tough loss, 21-17, on Saturday afternoon at Nottingham Field in Greeley, Colo.  

Mitch Sutton scored three touchdowns and ran for 190 yards to lead North Dakota to a 27-12 victory over South Dakota Saturday. Sutton scored on runs of 2 and 1 yards and on a 12-yard pass from Jake Landry. North Dakota has won 14 of the last 15 meetings.  

Senior quarterback Noah Shepard set USD's career touchdown passes record with a nine-yard strike early in the second quarter, but the South Dakota football team lost, 27-12, to North Dakota on Saturday in front of more than 12,431 fans at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, N.D. The Coyotes dropped to 3-2 overall and 0-1 in the Great West Conference, while the Fighting Sioux improved to 2-2 and 1-0 in league action. A tight one-point contest at half turned into a UND win with 14 unanswered points in the se  

North Dakota scored 14 unanswered points in the second half, pulling away from the University of South Dakota 27-12 at the Alerus Center here Saturday. The victory in the home opener for the Fighting Sioux spoiled a record-setting day for South Dakota quarterback Noah Shepard. Shepard, a senior from Thornton, Colo., became USD's career touchdown pass leader with a nine-yard strike to Ben Oberle early in the second quarter.  

Senior quarterback Noah Shepard set USD's career touchdown passes record with a nine-yard strike early in the second quarter, but the South Dakota football team lost, 27-12, to North Dakota on Saturday in front of more than 12,431 fans at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, N.D. The Coyotes dropped to 3-2 overall and 0-1 in the Great West Conference, while the Fighting Sioux improved to 2-2 and 1-0 in league action.  

Mitch Sutton scored three touchdowns and ran for 190 yards to lead North Dakota to a 27-12 victory over South Dakota Saturday. Sutton scored on runs of 2 and 1 yards and on a 12-yard pass from Jake Landry. North Dakota has won 14 of the last 15 meetings.