The second of three parts to Bison football season starts this week

FARGO — Session 1, as head coach Tim Polasek called the first four North Dakota State games of the season, is over. Also gone is the prediction game in college football. Polasek said that train left the station because of the current state of affairs of the game. No more was that evident than Sacramento State, which Polasek said was a tougher opponent than advertised. Nothing is going to surprise me in college football anymore, he said. We have to drop everything we knew in the prediction world from five, 10 years ago. I love all the people forecasting this stuff but I don t get it. How can you forecast what s going to go on with a team that has 75 new players? Case in point: Sacramento State was a 31-10 Bison win but got tougher as the game wore on. Polasek liked the play of the Hornets quarterback. Their linebackers were better than he thought. Their running backs ran hard. All of that despite more than 70 new players. I don t want to live in this projectio