FARGO, N.D. - No. 2 seed North Dakota State scored touchdowns on its last four possessions to beat 19th-ranked Sam Houston State 35-3 in the NCAA Division I FCS semifinals Friday, Dec. 19, at Gate City Bank Field at the Fargodome.
Three-time defending national champion NDSU joins Eastern Kentucky (1979-1982) and Youngstown State (1991-1994) as the only teams to advance to four straight title games. Â The Bison (14-1) play Saturday, Jan. 10, at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, against the winner of Saturday's semifinal featuring Illinois State at New Hampshire.
It was 7-3 at halftime before NDSU broke the game open with two big scoring runs. Â
King Frazier's 33-yard TD capped a four-play drive and
John Crockett's 55-yard scoring burst on the first play after a three-and-out quickly made it a 21-3 Bison advantage.
Crockett
averaged 6.4 yards on 26 carries and finished with 166 yards and three TDs.  He picked up 53 yards on 10 carries to highlight a 14-play scoring drive ending on Crockett's 10-yard TD run that made it 28-3 early in the fourth.
Carson Wentz was 13 of 19 passing for 179 yards including a 14-yard TD pass to freshman
RJ Urzendowski with 3:38 left in the game. Â Eight NDSU receivers caught passes, including redshirt freshman
Isaiah Frandsen's first career reception.
Wentz finshed the game with 2,874 passing yards to break the NDSU single-season record set last year by
Brock Jensen. Â Crockett ended the night with 808 career rushing attempts to break the NDSU career record set by Kyle Steffes in 2006.
Middle linebacker
Nick DeLuca made a game- and career-high 13 tackles and had a 35-yard interception return that set up NDSU's final scoring drive.
Outside linebacker
Carlton Littlejohn had 11 tackles and defensive end
Kyle Emanuel had a career-high 11 stops. Â Emanuel was part of three sacks and tied the NDSU career record of 41 sacks set in 1974 by Jerry Dahl and tied in 1990 by Phil Hansen.
Quarterback Jared Johnson rushed 25 times for 66 yards and went 20 of 31 passing for 227 yards to lead Sam Houston State (11-5). Â Keshawn Hill caught seven passes for 50 yards for the Bearkats, and Yedidiah Louis had six receptions for 62 yards.
