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Here are three keys to the game, a prediction and the viewing guide for UNI football against Western Illinois.

Alex Allen is part of an ever-declining group of college athletes who, despite a lack of playing time, stayed true to his original commitment rather than join the new majority in the transfer portal. The UNI fifth-year senior hauled in his first career touchdown catch last week.

Northern Iowa is off to an 0-3 start and not worrying about the playoffs or even the next game, only the next practice.

FCS No. 7 Sacramento State held off Northern Iowa, 37-21, Saturday evening at the UNI-Dome. UNI (0-3) offered itself and its fans no relief as it played from behind for the third consecutive week.

Here are three keys to the game, a prediction and the viewing guide for UNI football against Sacramento State.

While Trevor Penning has received more attention and exposure than any of his UNI predecessors in the NFL Draft, Mark Farley pointed out this week that before there was Penning, there was Chad Rinehart.

Things are seemingly upside-down for Northern Iowa through two games of its 2022 football season. That upside-down feeling derives from a UNI defense that’s allowed 38.5 points per game and 564.5 yards per game while its passing offense leads the Missouri Valley Football Conference in yards per game (310).

Here’s three keys for UNI football against North Dakota, plus streaming information on how to watch the game.

Logan Wolf’s UNI football career has featured frustrating stops and starts due to a pandemic and pair of stubborn injuries. After another rehab that seems to have proved effective, Wolf punctuated his long-awaited return with his first touchdown catch in 1,029 days last Saturday at Air Force.

Saturday’s season-opening, 48-17, loss at Air Force sure wasn’t pretty for Northern Iowa football. But it wasn’t completely ugly.

Here are three keys to the game for UNI football against Air Force, plus the TV and live stream guide and a prediction.

Northern Iowa preseason All-America linebacker Spencer Cuvelier is putting the finishing touches on a double major of finance and real estate, working 15 to 25 hours a week at a fulfilling internship and is about to embark on a fifth season of college football.

Northern Iowa football’s 2022 season-opening prep comes with more than the usual. Air Force’s uncommon flexbone offense — more commonly known as the triple option — is a scheme designed to level the playing field against its college football peers that recruit football players rather than servicemen.

Headed into preseason camp this summer, UNI Coach Mark Farley said Theo Day would compete with backup Matt Morrissey for the starting job, and on Wednesday he told The Gazette that Day will begin the season as their starter.

If Northern Iowa’s new-look offense is going to reach its potential this season, it’ll require its running game to produce at a high level. Sixth-year seniors Dom Williams and Vance McShane will look to improve upon solid 2021 seasons.