Welcome to another episode of Y11 Audio; and welcome to Previews Weeks! Let’s preview everything that EMU and the Mid-American Conference have to offer this season in the three weeks leading up to 2024’s season kickoff.
The MAC has made a move to schedule its games with a four-pod structure. We’ll follow suit here with the second of four MAC team(s) preview episodes.
Miami, the defending champions, get to have two rivalries in this new pod structure. Paired with Ohio (Battle for the Bricks) and Ball State (Redbird Rivalry, sure), the RedHawks are favorites by many to make a repeat run for the MAC championship. Sure the team loses some important parts, but it’s not right betting against a team that returns maybe the toughest quarterback in college football.
Ohio and Ball State both have had some recent success — getting to (in Ohio’s case in 2022) or even winning (like Ball State in 2020) the MAC championship game in recent years. But, as we can see, it’s so much easier to fall from grace than keep up its championship-level momentum.
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Previews Weeks: Ball State, Miami (OH), Ohio