There are losses and then there are self-inflicted losses.

For the Idaho State football team the second option sums up a disappointing 31-18 loss to Northern Arizona on Homecoming weekend before 9,861 fans, the largest crowd for a home game this season.

The Bengals, 2-6 overall,1-3 in the Big Sky, just couldn’t get out of their own way, making mistakes at the wrong time to take away touchdowns and to frustrate everyone including ISU head coach Cody Hawkins.

“I told the guys in the locker room, we’re a good football team, we’re just not playing well,” Hawkins said. “We’ve played three playoff teams in a row and that is going to be the standard here, but you still have to put it together. We are capable of good football in stretches, but we are not playing winning football and that is on

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