YOUNGSTOWN — The year the Youngstown State football team last won at Northern Iowa, the first Blackberry was released, the first Matrix movie released, music-sharing platform Napster launched, Serena Williams won the first of her 23 Grand Slam titles and the world was worried about the upcoming Y2K bug at the turn of the new millennium.

In order to ensure itself the best odds of landing a spot in the upcoming FCS playoffs, YSU will have to do something that it hasn’t done in more than 25 years.

The Penguins close out the regular season on Saturday at 2 p.m. in the UNI Dome at Northern Iowa, where YSU hasn’t won since 1999 when Jim Tressel was the head coach.

“In my team meeting today, I said, ‘I’m just going to say it,’ No matter where in the Missouri Valley, we haven’t been fortunate i

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