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2017 Week 8 Preview: Northern Illinois Huskies at Bowling Green Falcons

Bowling Green and Northern Illinois will be playing for the fifth straight year, second-consecutive meeting in the regular season. As sports fans, we have become accustomed to trilogies. We've had three-straight occurrences of a Warriors-Cavaliers NBA Finals and many await a third-consecutive Clemson-Alabama national championship game.

Although the contests were never close, the MAC had its own "three-match" between Bowling Green and Northern Illinois in the conference title game from 2013 to 2015. The Falcons took the tail end matchups over the Huskies, while Rod Carey and Co. celebrated their 2014 MAC Championship.

No team has been able to win consecutively in this series in recent years, but the 4-2 Huskies enter Doyt Perry Stadium as heavy favorites over the 1-6 Falcons.