Catamounts back out Bison football game

FARGO Western Carolina has backed out of a football contest with the NDSU Bison.

The Catamounts bought out of the 2016 season opener, the third time the team will fail to show up on the Bison schedule.

Instead Western Carolina is playing an FBS game at Eastern Carolina.

The school is going to pay a buyout of $200,000.

In 2013 NDSU replaced Western Carolina on its schedule with Delaware State, which was part of ESPN’s “College GameDay” pregame show in Fargo.