WESTERN MICHIGAN TO FACE WISCONSIN IN GOODYEAR COTTON BOWL CLASSIC
Cleveland, Ohio – For the second time in Mid-American Conference history a member institution will be playing in one of the prestigious New Year’s Six Bowl Games, as MAC Champion Western Michigan will face Wisconsin in the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic on Jan. 2 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
This will be Western Michigan’s first appearance in a New Year’s Six Bowl Game and the program’s eighth bowl appearance in school history. For the MAC, the previous New Year’s Day bowl appearance came four years ago during the BCS era as Northern Illinois faced Florida State on Jan.