No. 14 football (11-0, 7-0 MAC) still has a lot on the line as it wraps up its season with a match against the Western Michigan Broncos (1-10, 1-6 MAC) at 6 p.m. today at Huskie Stadium.

The Huskies have already locked up the MAC West title, but a chance at a BCS bowl will require an unblemished record. If they hope to keep those chances alive, they will have to extend their home winning streak to 26 games, increase their conference winning streak to 25 games and finish with the first perfect regular season as an FBS program in school history.

The Huskies are coming off a 35-17 victory over Toledo Wednesday. They trailed 10-7 at the half but outscored the Rockets 28-7 in the second half to improve to 11-0.

“I’m obviously real happy with the win, the way we came out and played in the second half and finished offensively,” said head coach Rod Carey. “Like I alluded to, defensively I guess there are some numbers you can look at that you’re necessarily not pleased with, but the way [we] stopped the run on a team that was really running the ball at will on people, I was really pretty pleased with.

“[We] played well the whole game. Three turnovers and then the fourth one at the end, obviously, [those were] a big deal in that game.”

The Broncos, who last played Nov. 16, have had 10 days to prepare for the Huskies. They come into DeKalb on a two-game slide, but they only lost their last two games by a combined eight points.

Freshman Zach Terrell has filled in at quarterback the last six games and started the last five after senior Tyler Van Tubbergen suffered a right shoulder injury Oct. 5 at Toledo. Terrell quarterbacked in the Broncos’ lone win this season, a 31-30 victory Oct. 26 at Massachusetts.

No matter who the quarterback has been, true freshman wide receiver Corey Davis has emerged as the No. 1 target. In 10 games, Davis has 64 receptions for 913 yards (38.5 percent of the team’s receiving yards) and six of the team’s 12 receiving touchdowns.

“Western’s a[n] improving football team,” Carey said. “You can tell by [watching] those games chronologically from the start to the end. You can tell that some things are getting better that they’re doing. Obviously, they have an outstanding receiver in Corey Davis. He’s just a good football player as a freshman. [He’s] making a lot of plays.”

The Huskies are approaching this game just like they have the previous 11 games: They are focusing on the game at hand and not their next one, even if that next game is the MAC Championship.

“It’s going to be a challenge,” Carey said. “It’s a team that you can’t take lightly at this time of year because no matter what a team’s struggles are through the course of the year, you get to this time of the year and you see improvement.

“Those freshmen, those young guys they’ve been playing aren’t freshmen anymore. They’re seasoned. We certainly have to dot our I’s and cross our T’s on this one, as well.”