MUNCIE, Ind. — Ball State football's defensive line enters the 2023 season with a chip on its shoulder.
The group, comprised of several veterans with 46 combined starts and two experienced transfers, feels it hasn't received the respect it deserves from outside evaluators. Only one member, redshirt junior Tavion Woodard, is an All-Mid-American Conference preseason selection, and no one made an All-MAC team in 2022.
The Cardinals are determined to prove their doubters wrong.
"The MAC's sleeping on us," redshirt junior Kyron Mims said. "We've got a lot to prove this year.