What We Learned from Eastern Michigan’s 45-23 victory over Western Michigan

Here we are at the halfway point of the season, so it’s about time that we’ve learned a few things about the season at large for all of the teams in the MAC.

For this particular game, I’ll be giving you two general observations from both the Eastern and Western Michigan perspectives after watching their game on Saturday evening. The scoreboard did not indicate the proper feel of this game, as WMU got a couple garbage time scores, but there’s still a lot to learn.

Eastern Michigan can be aggressive on defense

I’ve wrote a number of times how the Neathery defenses seem to be based on aggression and forcing turnovers. It seems that we got to see that in action against Western Michigan. Eastern…