HOUGHTON — With convincing wins over then-No. 16 Bemidji State, South Dakota Mines and Hillsdale in their first three weeks of the season, the Michigan Tech Huskies football team joined the national polls this week at No. 24. That being said, the focus for the Huskies is not the ranking, but rather their game Saturday against Upper Iowa at Kearly Stadium.
“(The) guys are playing well right now,” said Huskies coach Dan Mettlach. “Same thing I said last week. I feel like feeding off of each other and taking advantage of certain situations.”
Despite the success, Mettlach feels the Huskies are still scratching the surface of how good they might be.
“We still haven’t had four quarters of the execution that we were looking for, and have a lot to clean up still, formationally, and, obviously,