Fun Facts: UNI-Iowa

If it's Friday in football season, it's time for Fun Facts. So here they are!

1. Since 1985, Northern Iowa has 10 wins over FBS teams. Four came against Iowa State, three against Kansas State, and one each against Ball State, Eastern Michigan and Ohio.

2. UNI running back David Johnson has averaged 159.8 total yards in four games against FBS teams.

3. Johnson (154) and Iowa's Mark Weisman (146) combined for 300 total yards in Iowa's 27-16 win over the Panthers two years ago.

4. The most points Iowa ever scored in a game was 95 against Iowa State Teachers College in 1914. Iowa State Teachers College became the State College of Iowa in 1961, and that became the University of Northern Iowa in 1967.

5. Iowa has made its last 123 PAT kicks over the last 42 games. That's the second-longest current streak in the nation. First belongs to Illinois, with 174 straight PATs.

6. UNI and Iowa both have produced an NFL Defensive Player of the Year. The Panthers' was Bryce Paup. The Hawkeyes' was Bob Sanders.

7. Paup, who began his NFL career with the Green Bay Packers and was a high school coach in that city after he retired from playing football, was on the Packers' Board of Directors from 2006 to 2013. He formally retired as a Packer in 2002 although he hadn't played there since 1994.

8. The head coaches of the two teams have sons on their teams. Jake and Jared Farley are UNI linebackers. Steve Ferentz is an Iowa offensive lineman. Brian and James Ferentz previously played at Iowa.

9. UNI's lone win in this 16-game series was the first meeting, an 11-5 decision in 1898. After that game, five Hawkeye players quit the team, saying they were 'grievously neglected, in that suitable clothing and equipment had not been given them.” Iowa didn't allow a touchdown in the 23 games that followed. Twenty were wins, three were ties.

10. Center Point is appropriately named for the UNI-Iowa game. The Linn County town is 45 miles from Iowa City, 48 from Cedar Falls.