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Chattanooga’s former role as FCS title game’s longtime host now belongs to Frisco, Texas

Staff file photo / Villanova fans hold up a sign acknowledging Chattanooga during the FCS national championship game between the Wildcats and Montana on Dec. 18, 2009, at Finley Stadium. That was the final season the game was played at Finley before it moved to Frisco, Texas, which will host the event for the 14th time Sunday, breaking a record it currently shares with Chattanooga as the longest-serving host city.
Staff file photo / Villanova fans hold up a sign acknowledging Chattanooga during the FCS national championship game between the Wildcats and Montana on Dec. 18, 2009, at Finley Stadium. That was the final season the game was played at Finley before it moved to Frisco, Texas, which will host the event for the 14th time Sunday, breaking a record it currently shares with Chattanooga as the longest-serving host city. Staff file photo / Villanova fans hold up a sign acknowledging Chattanooga during the FCS national championship game between the Wildcats and Montana on Dec. 18, 2009, at Finley Stadium. That was the final season the game was played at Finley before it moved to Frisco, Texas, which will host the event for the 14th time Sunday, breaking a record it currently shares with Chattanooga as the longest-serving host city.

By STEPHEN HAWKINS / The Associated Press 4 min read

FRISCO, Texas — North Dakota State University athletic director Matt Larsen believes Frisco, a city of some 200,000 in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro area, is becoming for the Football Championship Subdivision what Omaha, Nebraska, is for NCAA Division I baseball and Oklahoma City is for D-I softball.

“When you think about a championship location, every FCS program at the beginning of the year, their goal is to get to Frisco,” Larsen, vice chair of the FCS committee, said Friday.

This is the 14th time the FCS national championship game will be played in the 20,500-seat professional soccer stadium in North Texas. This is only the fourth time NDSU hasn’t made the trip from Fargo to Frisco.

The Bison got knocked out of the 24-team playoff field by a double-overtime semifinal loss last month at No. 2 seed Montana (13-1), which plays reigning champion and top-seeded South Dakota State (14-0) in Sunday’s title game. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. Eastern, and the game will be televised by ABC.

Montana won national championships in 1995 and 2001 and has reached the title game for NCAA Division I’s lower tier five other times, most recently at the end of the 2009 season. That was the year before the game moved from Chattanooga to Frisco and switched to an early January date with some added time between the semifinals and the title game.