It seems fitting that North Dakota State will face Montana State to close out the 2024 football season.

It was the Bobcats who were the opponents that started this entire Bison FCS dynasty.

A 42-17 NDSU rout of Montana State in Bozeman in 2010 opened eyes not just in Fargo, but across the FCS that the Bison could play in this division.

14 years and nine national championships later, there’s no debate on who’s the top program in FCS.

Montana State may know as well as anyone. The Bobcats have had their seasons ended by the Bison four separate times since 2018, including last year’s heartstopping 35-34 overtime win in Bozeman.

NDSU stomped the Bobcats in the second round in 2018 and the semifinals in 2019. Brent Vigen took MSU to the national championship game in 2021, but after freshman quarterback Tommy Mellott got injured in the first quarter, NDSU ran over the Cats, winning 38-10.

Montana State of 2024 is a different animal. The Bobcats have won every game, scoring 30 points in each game, something no team has done in Division I this year.

Mellott has had a tremendous year, in a battle with Bison quarterback Cam Miller for the Walter Payton Award.

The Forum’s Jeff Kolpack and WDAY’s Dom Izzo begin Championship Week with a look at what the matchup will be like between the Bison and Bobcats.

Dom Izzo is the Sports Director at WDAY-TV. He began working for WDAY in 2006 as the weekend sports anchor and was promoted to Sports Director in 2010.

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Adrianne Curry traded the catwalk for the Montana wilderness, where she lives with her husband, Matthew Rhode.

“The last seven years, I have lived VERY remote,” Curry, 42, wrote via X on Friday, December 27. “I can go months without hanging [with] anyone other than my husband. My life is lived in the thundering, glorious silence of the wilderness.”

She added, “I get easily overwhelmed in large groups/cities now. It can take days to decompress from the experience.”

There is a plus to Curry’s frequent solitude.

“I am more tuned into the earth than I ever have been in my life,” she explained. “My awareness of the forest and what is in it around me is quite sharp.”

Several hours later, Curry shared another image of her Montana paradise via Instagram.

“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where. You’re meant to be,” she wrote on Saturday, December 28. “It’s easy. All you need is love.”

Along with her reflective caption, Curry shared a photo with husband Rhode.

Curry rose to fame on the debut season of America’s Next Top Model in 2003, where she took home the coveted prize pack of a modeling contract, brand deals and more. After nine years in the fashion industry, Curry walked away.

“[America’s Next Top Model was] a polished jewel that prepared me for the awful truth that I couldn’t trust anybody, even people that I thought I could, and even knowing that I still got screwed over,” she told People in July. “I’m grateful that things didn’t pan out the way they were supposed to because I don’t think I would be a very good person if I had found major success in modeling.”

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Curry added at the time, “I just don’t think my young brain would’ve been able to wrap itself around that in a good way. … I felt like I was used as a guinea pig and I felt so cornered. I couldn’t say no because the way they approached me was like, ‘Oh, we know you’re awesome with this, so we want you to pose nude right here, and we know you’ll do it,’ and blah, blah, blah.’”

Curry, who was previously married to The Brady Bunch alum Christopher Knight, later wed Rhode in 2018.

“6 years ago … I married the man I escaped Los Angeles with to start our biggest adventure yet,” she wrote via Instagram in September. “My big buck in the forest.