North Dakota State Bison

The North Dakota State Bison football program represents North Dakota State University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision level and competes in the Mountain West Conference. The Bison play in the 18,700-seat Fargodome located in Fargo. The Bison have won 18 national championships and 39 conference championships. They have won 10 NCAA Division I FCS National Championships between 2011 and 2024. The Bison hold the record for most overall NCAA national championships and the record for the most consecutive championships with five titles between 2011 and 2015 for Division I FCS.

North Dakota State University first fielded a football team in 1894, among the first 70 universities in the nation to do so. The first game the North Dakota State Farmers played was against future rival, University of North Dakota Flickertails, North Dakota State won the game 20–4.

The North Dakota State Bison college football team represents North Dakota State University as part of the Mountain West Conference. The Bison competes as part of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision. The program has had 32 head coaches since it began play during the 1894 season. Since December 2023, Tim Polasek has served as head coach at North Dakota State.