Western Michigan talking Cotton Bowl after winning MAC championship

Heading into the game, OH was ranked No. 2 – just behind Western – in points allowed in the MAC with 21.7.

Western Michigan athletic director Kathy Beauregard said the tickets sold for the game between No.14 Western Michigan (12-0) and OH (8-4) are “46,000 and counting”.

Ohio’s Defense while they did give up 29 points it was a hard fought 29 points that Western Michigan scored.

Western Michigan head coach P.J. Fleck runs onto the field with his team before the Mid-American Conference championship NCAA college football game against Ohio, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, in Detroit.

Ultimately, the Broncos still won the turnover battle 3-2, including an interception by Robert Spillane that ended the game. “I don’t think there’s anybody to pay attention to”, he said.

Here is all the important info you need for today’s game. They’re good at running and they throw when they want to. He’d played at MAC rival Northern Illinois and was an assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but his resume was relatively short. Okorafor on the left is only a junior, but a monster at 6ft 5, 333 lbs, while senior right tackle Taylor Moton matches him at 6ft 5, 328 lbs and a potential mid round 2017 draft selection. “Let’s go make history tonight, ‘” Windham said. “We used to be at the bottom, now we’re at the top”, Fleck said.

“We were probably both very unimpressed when we first met each other”, Fleck said.

“I’m going to wear cotton shirts, I’m going to have cotton slippers, I’m going to have cotton earmuffs, I’m going to have a cotton jacket”.

Western Michigan wasted no time to respond, scoring on its next play from scrimmage when quarterback Zach Terrell found Corey Davis across the middle before he outraced the Bobcats defense for a 70-yard touchdown reception to give the Broncos a 16-7 lead. On the Broncos’ next offensive play, Terrell found Davis streaking toward the post and Davis, after making the catch and eluding OH safety Javon Hagan, finished the play untouched for a 70-yard touchdown and a 16-7 lead.

It’s true that Western Michigan hadn’t won a MAC title since 1988, but when an opponent wears the burden of a championship drought that’s two decades longer, it might show more fire, and the Bobcats very almost burned the Broncos.

From the moment they beat Northwestern 22-21 in the season opener, the Broncos had a chance for a special season – and plenty of people realized it even then. The win came in front of a MAC Championship record crowd. If Navy wins, it could end up being a close call between the Midshipmen and WMU.

But poor Western is going to be feeling glum about all their success following the season.

“We’re not going to sit there and trick them – they know how big this is”, Fleck said. There is now a major opening at OR, and Fleck’s name has also come up in speculation about the Purdue job.

They chanted, waved, held up signs and cheered as the buses rolled by headed east. We conduct ourselves in the same way that we did when we first started.

At that point, Ohio’s defense was on the field for 29 plays.