NASSAU, Bahamas- The Western Michigan football team captured the first bowl victory in school history, defeating Middle Tennessee State, 45-31, in the Popeye’s Bahamas Bowl at Thomas Robinson Stadium.
WMU finishes 2015 with an 8-5 overall record under third-year head coach P.J. Fleck. It is the second-straight eight-win season for Western Michigan, a feat that had also never been accomplished before in program history.
The game started and ended nothing short of an old-fashioned shootout. The two teams combined for 34 points and 475 yards in the first quarter alone and the score was tied 17-17 at the half.