If someone asks me how a certain football team is going to fare in the upcoming season, I tell those folks I can give them an exact response if they can give me two pieces of information: What does that team's schedule look like, and how many injuries will they sustain, and to whom?

The first answer is easy to find, and as we ascertained from looking at Idaho State's football schedule before this season, it was not likely to yield the school's first playoff appearance in 42 years. We've discussed the difficulty of ISU's schedule at length, and there is no need to retrace those steps. It was already apparent that for the Bengals to improve upon their 5-7 record of last season, just about everything was going to have to go right.

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