DETROIT — Be honest with yourself.
When the season began, where did you think the Central Michigan football team's 2015 season was ultimately headed?
Did you expect another season of missed chances, frustrating mental mistakes and painful mediocrity? Or were you ready to taste genuine success and a trip to Ford Field to show the national college football audience what the Chippewas are made of?
If you thought what would happen was the latter, you got your wish.
Sort of.
Before the 2015 Quick Lane Bowl, first-year Head Coach John Bonamego said he told his players to treat Monday's showdown with Minnesota as a "dry run" for next year's MAC Championship.