The Bowling Green Falcons.
The other MAC team in the MAC Championship game.
But first lets talk about
Jordan Lynch.
Heisman contender. All around great athlete and quarterback. Shattering his own records. Lynch and the NIU Huskies have made a major impact in the national spotlight. They've ravaged defenses with their running attack and Lynch himself has single handedly picked apart defenses running and throwing like a surgeon. However, the best defense he has faced all year was the Iowa Hawkeyes, a team who ranks 49th in Total Defense. Sure NIU is a MAC team and by all means are impressive going 12-0 and running wild on the conference. The team he hasn't played yet is Bowling Green.
Lets talk about some of the Falcons statistics defensively.
6th in the nation in Total Defense.
5th in the nation in Scoring Defense at just under 14 points a game
............... and the NUMBER 1 Red Zone Defense in the nation as teams are only scoring just over 50% of their red zone opportunities against the Falcons.
It's arguable that Bowling Green may have one of the best front-7's in college football, even after losing one of arguably their best defensive players in LB Gabe Martin. This is a team that plays with a ferocious defense that pursues the ball better than most people have ever seen at the MAC level, a conference known with a reputation of speed, spread offense and scoring. And although people would argue that its just the MAC so BGSU's defense isn't stopping high caliber teams, this defense held SEC schools like the Florida Gators and Mississippi St. Bulldogs to 27 and 21 points respectively in 2012 and 2013.
All that is being said here is don't crown Jordan Lynch and the NIU Huskies MAC Champions and BCS busters too fast. They have to beat BGSU and the most elite defense they will have seen all season.
I expect a great MAC Championship game at Ford Field and one that likely will be remembered for the ages.
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