Bowling Green Football Talk

Football is finally back, and as per request, I will be dishing out picks for every MAC game.  1. Western Illinois vs  Ball State  -25.5     Give me the Cards here. Western Illinois is a solid FCS school but I would look for Ball State to light it up big as they try and go back to back. 2.  Wagner  vs Buffalo -45     I would take Wagner here. This line is huge, and there is a chance that Wagner keeps it closer than people think as Buffalo transitions to a new coaching staff as well as losing many players to graduation.  3. Bowling Green vs  Tennessee  -34     BG lost by more than this to MAC teams last year. Easy pick, take the Vols. Josh Huepel is in his coaching debut, so look for him to run up the score.  4. St Francis vs  Eastern Michigan  -30.5     This one is tough, but take the Eagles. Eastern is experienced on the trenches and should look good on defense so maybe this game could cover, but risky play. 5. Western Michigan vs  Michigan  -17.5     I am not sure how Michigan is onl

I am a huge fan of the transfer portal. It allows a school like ours to scoop up higher quality talent than we can recruit once these decide they want to transfer. Despite losing a lot of players to the portal this year, Scott Loeffler has done a quality job bringing in kids from high quality P5 schools to add to this team's depth and give these kids an opportunity to put up better numbers than at their previous destination. Let's take a look at the incoming players in no particular order. 1. Davon Ferguson DB Kansas Big 12          Davon comes into the program with 2 years of eligibility left. Ferguson decided to opt out the back half of Kansas' season in 2020 which is fair considering their coach was out the door. Coming to BG, Ferguson will add much needed depth to a very young defense. He is a guy who has been in a P5 college program for years now and can show some of these younger men how to be a D1 athlete. Coach Loeffler even said that Davon is a great role model who