{"id":376329,"date":"2026-08-20T07:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376329\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T07:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:28:16","slug":"jacksonville-state-vs-north-dakota-state-odds-line-2026-college-football-picks-week-0-predictions-from-proven-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376329\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville State vs. North Dakota State odds, line: 2026 college football picks, Week 0 predictions from proven model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x1n2onr6 x1ghz6dp xexx8yu x1uhho1l x1xpa7k\" style=\"font-family:industrie-standard;letter-spacing:0.01em;padding-bottom:0;font-size:1rem;font-weight:400;line-height:1.4\">The 2026 college football season begins with Week 0 on Saturday, Aug. 29, and one of the matchups has the North Dakota State Bison making their FBS debut. The 10-time FCS champions will host the Jacksonville State Gamecocks, who just joined FBS in 2023. Jax State, of Conference USA, went 9-5 last season, marking its fourth straight year with exactly nine wins. NDSU was 12-1 in its last year in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and has won double-digit games in 14 straight non-shortened seasons.\u00a0Visit our\u00a0DraftKings promo code\u00a0review and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/martech.cbssports.com\/bt\/redirect\/prod?b=draftkings&amp;c=sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored mtech nofollow noopener\">get $150 in bonus bets instantly as a new user after $5+ in wagers here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"x1n2onr6 x1ghz6dp xexx8yu x1uhho1l x1xpa7k\" style=\"font-family:industrie-standard;letter-spacing:0.01em;padding-bottom:0;font-size:1rem;font-weight:400;line-height:1.4\">Kickoff is set for 5:30 p.m. ET at the Fargodome in Fargo, N.D. The Bison are 6.5-point favorites in the latest North Dakota State vs. Jacksonville State odds, while the over\/under is 47.5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 college football season begins with Week 0 on Saturday, Aug. 29, and one of the matchups&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-376329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}