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North Dakota State has won 11 consecutive games overall and five in a row against FBS opponents since 2010, though those streaks figure to be in jeopardy against a Big Ten squad that Bison coach Chris Klieman says might be the best theyve ever faced.Following back-to-back overtime home victories, North Dakota State -- the No. 1 team in the STATS FCS Top 25 -- will try to become the eighth FCS school to beat an FBS opponent this season when it visits Iowa -- the 13th-ranked Bowl Subdivision team -- on Saturday.Klieman, who grew up a Hawkeyes fan in Waterloo, Iowa, believes the Hawkeyes imposing size and overall physicality will be the biggest challenges for NDSU (2-0). Led by LeShun Daniels (195 yards, 3 TDs) and Akrum Wadley (170 yards, 3 TDs), Iowa has rushed for 410 yards over its two games and ranks 10th nationally with 6.3 yards per run.If we can control tempo the entire game and keep their offense off the field, have long drives, fatigue their defense and get points on the board, it only helps the team as a whole because it keeps our defense fresh and allows them to get stops and allows us to get back on the field, Daniels said.The Bison cant let that happen after allowing 275 rushing yards in their first two games. They also let Eastern Washingtons Gage Gubrud throw for 450 yards and four touchdowns in last weeks 50-44 win.C.J. Beathard has thrown for 427 yards with four scores and no picks for Iowa, which has racked up 87 points and 715 total yards. The Hawkeyes rolled past Iowa State by 39 points last weekend -- the biggest win over their rivals in coach Kirk Ferentzs 18 seasons.Beathards an exceptional player. These guys up front are a lot better than Eastern Washington or Charleston Southern ... this is a Big Ten offensive line, Klieman said.Theyre not going to beat themselves, so that being said, we have to eliminate the mistakes weve made to give ourselves a chance.Klieman would like his squad to cut down on its penalties -- particularly offensively -- and hes also hoping Easton Stick can continue to make strides. The sophomore made several key plays against the Eagles, completing 17 of 26 passes for 257 yards with two scores. Hes also run for 105 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries in the two games.Lance Dunn leads NDSUs rushing attack with 179 yards on nearly seven yards per carry. Fellow sophomore Darrius Shepherd has been the top target in the passing game with eight catches for 127 yards and two touchdowns.Theyll face an Iowa defense that showed improvement last week, holding the Cyclones to 291 yards and forcing Iowa States two quarterbacks to complete just 14 of 35 passes for 165 yards and one interception.When we talk about North Dakota State, they take a backseat to no one, Ferentz said. Theyre accustomed to winning. They know what it takes and theyve got good players who are well coached.Ill go out on a limb and predict this will be a really strong team, a really tough opponent for us.NDSU has gone 8-3 with a five-game winning streak against FBS programs, though that run has come against Kansas, Minnesota, Colorado State, Kansas State and Iowa State -- hardly national powerhouses. 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The Oilers come in having lost five in a row (0-4-1) and 16 of their last 20 games, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.HOUSTON -- If limitations set the terms of living for Kealia Ohai, she wouldnt be in her home state of Utah this week wearing a United States womens national team uniform.Nearly blind in her right eye since childhood, she would be among the countless many left to wonder if they might have succeeded if not for some obstacle that proved impassable. Instead, the 24-year-old is among a very few, one of the new faces on the U.S. roster for a pair of games against Switzerland.The limitations of her vision never obscured the limitlessness of what she envisioned possible.Those are the terms she set. So if there are people who wonder if Ohai scores enough goals or if her skills are enough to reach the international level, fair enough. Such questions are reasonable.Hell, even the coach who named her to this roster did so with a cautious endorsement.Its just that Ohai wouldnt be here if she looked at the world that way.I can feel they didnt think I would ever get called in, or its probably not going to happen for me, Ohai said of well-meaning observers, let alone the outright skeptics. That [the window of opportunity] has passed. But it has never really bothered me. I knew from my whole career that I would get a chance with the national team if I just kept going.Now its up to me to make the team.Ohai was a prized recruit for the University of North Carolina, one of the most prolific dynasties in college sports. She not only won an NCAA title with the Tar Heels, but did so in the same year in which she scored the winning goal for the United States in the 2012 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. She was the second pick in the 2014 NWSL draft, the first ever by the expansion Houston Dash.Yet that rapid ascent made it all the more noticeable when the momentum appeared to halt the past few years.The Dash played 64 games in their first three seasons and won just 17. While far from an abject organizational failure, mediocrity is mediocrity even when it is also the normal growing pain of expansion. It cast a long shadow Ohai couldnt escape with modest numbers: eight goals and six assists in 42 appearances during the first two of those seasons.Morgan Brian and Julie Johnston, Ohais teammates on that U.S. U-20 team, were starters on the senior team that won a World Cup three years later. Crystal Dunn, who set up Ohais goal in the U-20 final, missed out on the 2015 glory but answered that omission with an MVP season in the NWSL and a place on the U.S. Olympic roster (as did U-20 alum Samantha Mewis).Yet each time a training camp neared for the senior team in recent years, Ohai waited for the phone call that would signal her inclusion. That call didnt come.She would get really, really down about it, said Megan Cushing, Ohais older sister who also lives in Houston and won an NCAA championship as a player at Southern California. We just felt like when is this going to come? But the coolest part about all of it is now I feel like shes at a point where shes really ready for it. It could have happened earlier and she might not have been ready. And sometimes if you get called in and dont perform, that was your one shot. Now I feel like she is really at a point in her career where she is peaking.dddddddddddd.In the 2016 NWSL season, Ohai tied for the league lead with 11 goals and added four assists, playing a direct role in almost half of the total goals accumulated by a team that for the first time didnt concede more than it allowed in a season. Statistical production has often been the crux of the debate about Ohai, at least since scoring more than 120 goals in high school. She scored 40 in 86 games at UNC, tied for 19th in program history. She scored twice while averaging more than 80 minutes per game in the 2012 U-20 World Cup.While the NWSL goals this season were evidence of her development, they were also the bells and whistles necessary to get people to notice the talent.If you want to play or if you want someone to notice you or you want to get called in, you have to score goals, Ohai said. Whereas for a defensive player, theres not really a benchmark. Its very based on whether they think youre good or not.It is difficult when youre not scoring and youre playing great. But at the same time, it provides something, kind of a standard where you score all these goals and you deserve a chance.Indeed, it was enough to earn a fresh look from U.S. coach Jill Ellis, by her own admission less than wowed when Ohai, at the time with the U-23 team, trained with the senior team in 2014.I saw her in there and she didnt perform very well, Ellis said. So I kind of had an early look at her and I think the message was, Youve got to stand out in [the NWSL] environment. ... I think she has completely benefitted from having the league, having these opportunities to go against good players and prove her worth. Shes very deserving of a look.While Ohai acknowledges the lack of vision in her right eye has on-field ramifications -- it is difficult to track a ball over that shoulder and the diminished depth perception affects the precision of her finishing -- it is also almost an afterthought. Friends sometimes tease her for squinting. She gets headaches in settings that strain her eyes, like long travel days or watching a game from afar in a stadium. But she insists it wasnt fear, conscious or otherwise in hindsight, that kept her from talking publicly about her vision until an interview with the student paper late in her time at North Carolina.Limitations just werent something she thought much about.My depth perception is pretty off, Ohai said. A lot of people would say they dont like to drive with me at nighttime because at night its pretty bad. But its nothing like Im tripping over things. I think because I was so young when it happened, I kind of figured out how to live with it.Therein lies the difference between an experience that shaped her rather than defined her.No more when kids teased her in elementary school about the patch she had to wear over her good eye than when the phone didnt ring the past few years.Let others talk about what you cant do. Let them worry about limits.She knows that she is special and shes been blessed, Cushing said. So we just kind of roll with it. ' ' '