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North Dakota State beats Nevada 31-17 on two special-teams scores

North Dakota State scored nine points on two special-teams plays and moved to six and one in its first season as an FBS program; the offense watched.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOne more thing on that haunted bunk bed: I'd have slept better than I will tonight thinking about this football game.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNorth Dakota State beat Nevada thirty-one to seventeen.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorJoining us from FCI Danbury is Marvin Locke, inmate four-oh-seven-one-eight, who has opinions about weird wins. Marvin, what happened in that dome?

  4. Marvin LockeAllegedly, I'm Marvin Locke, and what happened is a clean job.

  5. Marvin LockeNorth Dakota State scored nine points on two special-teams plays, three minutes thirty-five seconds apart.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe offense wasn't involved?

  7. Marvin LockeThe offense was basically in the parking lot with the engine running.

  8. Marvin LockeJackson Williams caught a missed fifty-seven-yard field goal at the end of the first half and ran it back for a touchdown.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe said his eyes got so wide, and that he was ready to go.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat sounds like a man who saw an opening, not a crime.

  11. Marvin LockeAllegedly, in Danbury, Connecticut, on a Tuesday in a stadium concession stand, I've had that exact look. Wide eyes mean the door is open.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLet me ask you about Nevada. After the fifty-seven-yarder was missed badly, they sent the same kicker out for fifty-four late in the third quarter.

  13. Marvin LockeSame window, three yards closer. You trip the alarm once, you don't walk back and lean on that exact window.

  14. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOne columnist said a Hail Mary from the thirty-nine was less risky. Is the coach in trouble?

  15. Marvin LockeAllegedly, I've been in trouble over less. And CBS Sports Network announcer Chris Lewis called it a kick-six-type opportunity before the kick even happened.

  16. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBefore the kick?

  17. Marvin LockeBefore the kick.

  18. Marvin LockeIn my line of work, that's called knowing about the job in advance, and I have this folded parking pass that proves I was elsewhere.

  19. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMarvin, North Dakota State is six and one in its first FBS season. Does the pass say where you were?

  20. Marvin LockeIt says lot C. Which, in a dome that size, is the first thing that looks suspicious about me.

  21. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBrock, tell us the forecast is clearer than Marvin's alibi.

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