The Eastern Michigan running game seemed to be missing.What can you learn from a 49-21 defeat? Well it turns out that you can learn quite a bit if you want to look for it.
43 Rushing Yards
Eastern Michigan only had a total of 43 rushing yards. That’s fairly suboptimal even by the normal standard for EMU’s attack, which averaged 117 yards per game in 2021, 112th in the country. Even when you add in the 24 yards that were lost because of sacks, that still only gets you to 67 yards. Teams are not going to win many games if they aren’t going to develop a rushing game, and this has been a weakness for a while now. Based on two games, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to get better, even with the new…
