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Per Randy:
The Big Ten and Mid-American Conference have a big brother/little brother relationship. And every once in a while, little brother will rise up and bloody big brother's nose.
On Saturday night at Huntington Bank Stadium, the Gophers will try to make sure they're not the ones getting their nose bloodied by an Eastern Michigan football team that's recently shown a wicked left jab.
Four times in the past five full seasons, the Eagles have upset a Big Ten team (Rutgers, Purdue and Illinois) or a squad from Power Five conference (Arizona State). They have the attention of Gophers coach P.J. Fleck, whose first head coaching job was at MAC member Western Michigan.
"We've got a heck of an opponent coming in here that won nine games last year and won their bowl game," said Fleck, who lost his first WMU vs. EMU game but won the next three. "It's one of the best-coached teams in college football that doesn't get talked about enough."
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Go Gophers!!
The Big Ten and Mid-American Conference have a big brother/little brother relationship. And every once in a while, little brother will rise up and bloody big brother's nose.
On Saturday night at Huntington Bank Stadium, the Gophers will try to make sure they're not the ones getting their nose bloodied by an Eastern Michigan football team that's recently shown a wicked left jab.
Four times in the past five full seasons, the Eagles have upset a Big Ten team (Rutgers, Purdue and Illinois) or a squad from Power Five conference (Arizona State). They have the attention of Gophers coach P.J. Fleck, whose first head coaching job was at MAC member Western Michigan.
"We've got a heck of an opponent coming in here that won nine games last year and won their bowl game," said Fleck, who lost his first WMU vs. EMU game but won the next three. "It's one of the best-coached teams in college football that doesn't get talked about enough."
Gophers, P.J. Fleck know they can look past a MAC opponent at own risk
Tenth-year Eastern Michigan coach Chris Creighton has built a Mid-American Conference program that seems to feast on Power Five opponents.
Go Gophers!!