{"id":80644,"date":"2015-08-29T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80644"},"modified":"2015-08-29T19:16:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T00:16:36","slug":"griz-comeback-defeats-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=80644","title":{"rendered":"Griz comeback defeats Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35817\" alt=\"newsnowGoBison\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison-300x69.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/newsnowGoBison.png 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Missoula, MT \u2013 North Dakota State, the four-time defending national champions, opened its football season Saturday with a shootout in the haze-covered mountains of Montana.<\/p>\n<p>And when the dust cleared, the top-ranked Bison suffered a rare season-opening loss with a 38-35 setback to Montana before a nationwide ESPN television audience and a Washington-Grizzly Stadium record crowd of 26,472.<\/p>\n<p>Forum News Service reports, Montana&#8217;s Joey Counts scored on a one-yard touchdown with two seconds remaining to give the Bison only their second season-opening loss during the Division I era.<\/p>\n<p>After Montana cut the Bison lead to 35-31 with a 28-yard field goal with two minutes, 47 seconds remaining, the Bison offense had to punt after gaining only three yards.<\/p>\n<p>Montana took over on its own 20 with 1:39 remaining. The Grizzlies marched to NDSU&#8217;s 1-yard line with 15 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>The Bison held a 28-21 halftime lead<\/p>\n<p>But Montana, operating first-year head coach Bob Stitt&#8217;s hurry-up offense, tied the game thanks to a 62-yard touchdown pass to Ellis Henderson.<\/p>\n<p>The Bison regained the lead with a 79-yard scoring drive, highlighted by a 44-yard screen pass to King Frazier. That set up Frazier&#8217;s 7-yard touchdown run that gave the Bison a 35-28 lead with 10:37 remaining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missoula, MT \u2013 North Dakota State, the four-time defending national champions, opened its football season Saturday with a shootout in the haze-covered mountains of Montana. And when the dust cleared, the top-ranked Bison suffered a rare season-opening loss with a 38-35 setback to Montana before a nationwide ESPN television audience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80645,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80644\/revisions\/80645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}