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UNI football: Prep for Sycamores will challenge Panthers

With the 23rd-ranked Panthers set to play their Missouri Valley Football Conference opener Thursday at Indiana State, Farley and UNI's normal weekly schedule has been advanced by a day.

"The biggest difference this one is, I don't know if it is the plan, it's the turnaround for the players," Farley added. "My conscious effort is what to do with them, because the coaches will get by. But the players you have to start re-hydrating .. it is what you eat, how you sleep. All those things are even more magnified this week more so than other weeks.

Boyle lost a quarterback battle in the preseason to Jalil Kilpatrick, a transfer from Kilgore CC in Texas, but Kilpatrick was injured in the Sycamores loss to Louisville.