So let’s just call it like it is: the 2016 Bowl Season has been suboptimal for the Mid-American Conference. 5 games, 5 losses, and though four of them were one possession games, that 45-point blowout of Central Michigan at the hands of Tulsa isn’t doing the conference or its members any favors in terms of raising the profile of the football programs. But one remains, a big one, one that we argued for for weeks and campaigned for even longer: Save us Western Michigan, you’re our only hope.
It’s funny, really. Fans of the MAC have pointed up to Kalamazoo for the duration of PJ Fleck’s tenure as some sort of circus sideshow long on boats and catchphrases but short on actual tangible results.