Even Bronco fans are probably a little sick of the preseason hype surrounding their favorite team, and are just ready to get on with the football thing already. Well, they finally get their wish on Saturday. It’s September, and Western Michigan football is back.
The Broncos travel to Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois to take on Northwestern. WMU was last there in 2013, and it didn’t go so well as the Wildcats dispatched first year coach P.J. Fleck and company 38-17. That game, of course, was a week following the Broncos embarrassing loss at home to FCS Nicholls State, and in a year where the brown and gold would muster just a single win, over UMass.