If Western wins the game in DeKalb, Ill, they’re still alive, and if they beat the University of Toledo next week they’ll be in. If NIU wins, their hopes are still alive, and Western will be mathematically eliminated, and there will be a new MAC champion for 2017.
“I wish we had more wins, to be honest with you. I knew we’d have a couple games, it’s college football, it’s not going to every layout where you can just check them off like high school,” Head Coach Tim Lester said. “You know you’re going to slip once, maybe twice and you wish it was only once, so that hurts.