... Illinois brings its 10-3 record from the MAC to Boise’s smurf turf to face 8-4 Fresno State in the Humanitarian Bowl. The game kicks off at 5:30 p.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 18.

These two teams haven’t played each other since 1991, so there is no meaningful past history on which to rely for our predictions.

The big story in this game is coaching—or, rather, Northern Illinois’ shocking lack of it. After the Huskies lost in the MAC Championship Game, Jerry Kill took the head coaching job at Minnesota and won’t be coaching the bowl game.

That’s bad enough, but he has also taken his offensive and defensive coordinators with him. The linebackers coach is takin...

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