Toledo and Ball State will clash in Muncie on Thursday night on opposite sides of the spectrum.
The Rockets sit at 6-1, the best record in the conference. Their lone defeat occurred in Week 4 at Miami (FL) in a game Toledo controlled through halftime.
The Cardinals are 2-5 and have lost four-straight contests. Ball State's most embarrassing defeat occurred last Saturday on their home turf, a 56-9 shellacking from Central Michigan.
The MAC frontrunners
Toledo received a vote in the AP poll this week, thanks to David Briggs of the Toledo Blade.