The Eastern Michigan Eagles (7-5) have been selected to represent the MAC in the 2016 Popeye’s Bahamas bowl to play the Old Dominion Monarchs (9-3) of Conference USA.
The Eagles will be playing in their first bowl game since winning the 1987 California Bowl over San Jose State. In his third season at head coach, Chris Creighton brought the Eagles to their first-winning season since 1989.
For the third-straight year, a Michigan-MAC team will be a participant in the lone bowl game outside of the United States. Central Michigan lost to Western Kentucky in the first annual Bahamas Bowl despite completing a miracle Hail Mary play and Western Michigan defeated Middle Tennessee in last year’s edition.