Hlist Week 2: End of Iowa's MAC nightmare is nigh

1. Broncos Bust: Iowa's football team has never lost three straight games to the Mid-American Conference.

That's not exactly something you put on billboards, I grant you. By the way, James Morris, I think I saw you on a Hawkeyes football billboard as I buzzed out of Cedar Rapids on I-380 (but not over the speed limit, of course) over the weekend. What's your cut from that?

Anyway, the Hawkeyes have a two-game losing streak to the MAC that is 12 days from ending.

The Western Michigan Broncos play at Iowa on Sept. 21. That will be two weeks after its 27-23 home loss to FCS Nicholls State, which was led down the stretch by third-string quarterback Tuskani Figaro.

No. 1 Nicholls State quarterback Beaux Hebert — yes, Nicholls State is in Thibodaux, La. — had a concussion the week before in the Colonels' 66-3 loss at Oregon. No. 2 QB Kalen Henderson was doing a good job Saturday in Kalamazoo until he broke a leg.

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Enter Figaro, who guided two scoring drives to seal the win.

Some Bronco fans have already had their fill of first-year WMU coach P.J. Fleck two games into his regime.

Western Michigan is at Northwestern Saturday. The Hawkeyes, who lost to Central Michigan last September and Northern Illinois nine days ago, mayfind their next home opponent is shell-shocked.