2015 Mac Football Championship Game
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2015 Mac Championship
| Marathon MAC Football Championship Game | |
|---|---|
| Conference Football Championship | |
| Sport | College football |
| Conference | Mid-American Conference |
| Current stadium | Ford Field |
| Current location | Detroit, Michigan |
| Played | 1997–present |
| Last contest | 2019 |
| Current champion | Miami RedHawks |
| Most championships | Marshall Thundering Herd (5) |
| TV partner(s) | ESPN2 |
| Official website | MAC-Sports.com football |
| Sponsors | |
| Marathon Petroleum (2003–present) | |
| Host stadiums | |
| Marshall University Stadium (1997–2000, 2002) Glass Bowl (2001) Doyt Perry Stadium (2003) Ford Field (2004–present) | |
| Host locations | |
| Huntington, West Virginia (1997–2000, 2002) Toledo, Ohio (2001) Bowling Green, Ohio (2003) Detroit, Michigan (2004–present) | |
All three teams would be 6-2 in MAC play, but NIU would be 2-0 vs. WMU and Toledo to win the head-to-head tiebreaker and the Huskies would advance to the MAC championship game.
Story Links KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. – American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced that two divisions of six teams each will begin play in the 2015 football season, culminating in the first American Athletic Conference Championship Game. The East-West format was approved unanimously by the conference’s chief executive officers at the league’s annual meetings. Nov 27, 2015 The 2015 Marathon MAC Football Championship Game will feature the East Division Champion Bowling Green Falcons against the West Division Champion Northern Illinois Huskies on Friday, Dec. 4 at 8:00 pm ET in front of a national television audience on ESPN2.
The MAC Football Championship Game is a football game between the winners of the East and West divisions of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to determine the conference champion. The game has been played since 1997, when the conference was first divided into divisions and since 2003 has been sponsored by Marathon Petroleum (officially known as the Marathon MAC Football Championship Game). The winner of the game is guaranteed a berth in a bowl game which the MAC has contractual obligations to field a team. Unlike the MAC's Group of Five contemporaries, which hold their respective championship games on campus sites, the MAC Championship Game is held at a neutral site, Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan since 2004.
In 2000, 2001, and 2007, due to an unbalanced conference schedule, the team with best division record within each division was awarded that division's championship game berth. In other years, the teams with the best overall conference records received a berth.
The game is held on the first Saturday in December, on the same weekend that other NCAA Division I FBS conferences hold their championship games.
Results by year[edit]
Below are the results from all MAC Football Championship Games played. The winning team appears in bold font, on a background of their primary team color. Rankings are from the AP Poll released prior to the game.
From 1997 through 2003, the championship game was played at campus sites. Since 2004, the game has been played at Ford Field in Detroit.
| Year | East | West | Site | Attendance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Marshall Thundering Herd | 34 | Toledo Rockets | 14 | Marshall University Stadium • Huntington, WV | 28,021 |
| 1998 | Marshall Thundering Herd | 23 | Toledo Rockets | 17 | 28,085 | |
| 1999 | 11Marshall Thundering Herd | 34 | Western Michigan Broncos | 30 | 28,069 | |
| 2000 | Marshall Thundering Herd | 19 | Western Michigan Broncos | 14 | 24,816 | |
| 2001 | 20Marshall Thundering Herd | 36 | Toledo Rockets | 41 | Glass Bowl • Toledo, OH | 20,025 |
| 2002 | 24Marshall Thundering Herd | 49 | Toledo Rockets | 45 | Marshall University Stadium • Huntington, WV | 24,582 |
| 2003 | 13Miami RedHawks | 49 | 20Bowling Green Falcons | 27 | Doyt Perry Stadium • Bowling Green, OH | 24,813 |
| 2004 | Miami RedHawks | 27 | Toledo Rockets | 35 | Ford Field • Detroit, MI | 22,138 |
| 2005 | Akron Zips | 31 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 30 | 12,051 | |
| 2006 | Ohio Bobcats | 10 | Central Michigan Chippewas | 31 | 25,483 | |
| 2007 | Miami RedHawks | 10 | Central Michigan Chippewas | 35 | 25,013 | |
| 2008 | Buffalo Bulls | 42 | 12Ball State Cardinals | 24 | 12,871 | |
| 2009 | Ohio Bobcats | 10 | Central Michigan Chippewas | 20 | 23,714 | |
| 2010 | Miami RedHawks | 26 | 24Northern Illinois Huskies | 21 | 12,031 | |
| 2011 | Ohio Bobcats | 20 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 23 | 13,052 | |
| 2012 | 18Kent State Golden Flashes | 37 | 19Northern Illinois Huskies | 442OT | 18,132 | |
| 2013 | Bowling Green Falcons | 47 | 16Northern Illinois Huskies | 27 | 21,106 | |
| 2014 | Bowling Green Falcons | 17 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 51 | 15,110 | |
| 2015 | Bowling Green Falcons | 34 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 14 | 16,425 | |
| 2016 | Ohio Bobcats | 23 | 13Western Michigan Broncos | 29 | 45,615 | |
| 2017 | Akron Zips | 28 | Toledo Rockets | 45 | 16,225 | |
| 2018 | Buffalo Bulls | 29 | Northern Illinois Huskies | 30 | 10,255 | |
| 2019 | Miami RedHawks | 26 | Central Michigan Chippewas | 21 | 22,427 | |
Results by team[edit]
| Appearances | School | Wins | Losses | Win % | Year(s) Won | Year(s) Lost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Northern Illinois | 4 | 4 | .500 | 2011, 2012, 2014, 2018 | 2005, 2010, 2013, 2015 |
| 6 | Marshall | 5 | 1 | .833 | 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002 | 2001 |
| 6 | Toledo | 3 | 3 | .500 | 2001, 2004, 2017 | 1997, 1998, 2002 |
| 5 | Miami | 3 | 2 | .600 | 2003, 2010, 2019 | 2004, 2007 |
| 4 | Central Michigan | 3 | 1 | .750 | 2006, 2007, 2009 | 2019 |
| 4 | Bowling Green | 2 | 2 | .500 | 2013, 2015 | 2003, 2014 |
| 4 | Ohio | 0 | 4 | .000 | 2006, 2009, 2011, 2016 | |
| 3 | Western Michigan | 1 | 2 | .333 | 2016 | 1999, 2000 |
| 2 | Akron | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2005 | 2017 |
| 2 | Buffalo | 1 | 1 | .500 | 2008 | 2018 |
| 1 | Kent State | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2012 | |
| 1 | Ball State | 0 | 1 | .000 | 2008 |
Eastern Michigan is the only team currently in the conference to have not attended a Championship Game. Marshall is the only Championship Game Winner to not be a current member of the MAC.
MVPs[edit]
| Year | MVP(s) | Team | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Randy Moss | Marshall | WR |
| 1998 | Chad Pennington | Marshall | QB |
| 1999 | Chad Pennington | Marshall | QB |
| 2000 | Byron Leftwich | Marshall | QB |
| 2001 | Chester Taylor | Toledo | RB |
| 2002 | Byron Leftwich | Marshall | QB |
| 2003 | Ben Roethlisberger | Miami | QB |
| 2004 | Bruce Gradkowski | Toledo | QB |
| 2005 | Luke Getsy | Akron | QB |
| 2006 | Damien Linson | Central Michigan | WR |
| 2007 | Dan LeFevour | Central Michigan | QB |
| 2008 | Mike Newton | Buffalo | DB |
| 2009 | Dan LeFevour | Central Michigan | QB |
| 2010 | Thomas Merriweather | Miami | RB |
| 2011 | Nathan Palmer | Northern Illinois | WR |
| 2012 | Jordan Lynch | Northern Illinois | QB |
| 2013 | Matt Johnson | Bowling Green | QB |
| 2014 | Drew Hare | Northern Illinois | QB |
| 2015 | Travis Greene | Bowling Green | RB |
| 2016 | Corey Davis | Western Michigan | WR |
Photo gallery[edit]
Before 2006 MAC Championship Game
2006 MAC Championship: Central Michigan vs. Ohio
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Bowling Green and Northern Illinois will meet for the third consecutive season in the Mid-American Conference football championship game on Friday night at Ford Field in Detroit (8 p.m., ESPN2).
The next act in this rivalry has a different feel from the prior two productions. That's because the Falcons (9-3, 7-1) boast the nation's top passer in Matt Johnson while the Huskies (8-4, 6-2) will start a freshman walk-on in Tommy Fiedler. Fiedler began the season fifth on the depth chart.
Injuries at the quarterback position could have crippled NIU but somehow coach Rod Carey got his team through to its sixth consecutive MAC West Division crown.
Huskies starter Drew Hare, a standout in last year's MAC title game, suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon in a victory over Toledo on Nov. 3. Veteran backup Anthony Maddie, a junior, was lost for the season in September after having back surgery. So on came redshirt freshman Ryan Graham, who led NIU past Toledo, Buffalo and Western Michigan, before injuring his leg in a loss to Ohio on Nov. 24.
Games like yandere simulator for mac. Ready or not, it's now Fiedler's time. The 6-foot-2, 192-pound left-hander out of LaGrange, Ill., completed 9 of 17 attempts for 113 yards and a touchdown in his pressed-into-action debut against Ohio.
'I think a lot of people would like to have our problem where you're in a championship game and you're starting a fifth-string, walkon quarterback,' Carey said. 'We give a lot of credit to our guys. They've persevered. They've done what we've asked them to do. They've really listened and that's the key. They've taken the attitude that it doesn't matter who is in (at quarterback). We have expectations and we are going to meet them. '
Behind a potent ground attack led by Joel Bouagnon, the MAC's leading rusher who ranks fourth in the country in rushing TDs with 18, the Huskies put aside their issues at QB and are again on the cusp of a conference title.
'That's been the thing we've had to hang our hat on this year,' Carey said. 'It really starts and ends with the running game. Joel has been a huge part how he's handled this role. We said that going into the year. He took it seriously in his preparation of how he attacked things. '
Standing in the way is Bowling Green and Johnson, who tossed a MAC championship game record five touchdown passes in a win over NIU in 2013. Johnson has empathy for the wounded NIU QBs. He missed most of the 2014 season due to a hip injury.
The time away from the playing field actually wound up paying dividends, Johnson said.
'It was a huge year for me last year because everything I couldn't do physically I was able to do mentally,' Johnson said. 'I wasn't able to practice in the offense or play in the offense but I was able to watch the offense grow. I got to see why things were done, why plays were called in certain situations. When the offense was having success I got to see why. I also got to see why were struggling.
'I really got to get an almost behind-the-scenes look through a coach's eyes because all I could do was watch and stay locked in mentally. '
The 6-foot, 219-pound senior from Harrisburg, Pa., seems laser-focused, throwing for 4,465 yards and 41 touchdowns completing 68.9% of his passes in coach Dino Babers' fast-paced, wide-open offense. Babers who has developed NFL quarterback talent in previous coaching stops at Eastern Illinois, Baylor and UCLA, has been blown away by Johnson's play.
'I've never had a quarterback play at the level that Matt Johnson is playing,' Babers said. 'The only quarterback I've had go through two years of this system is Tom Brady's backup, Jimmy Garoppolo (at Eastern Illinois). Matt is playing at that type of level which is extremely exciting for us.'
The most valuable player in the '13 MAC title game seems fit to play the starring role again.
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'When he's relaxed and his abilities rise to the top he's an exceptional quarterback,' Babers said of Johnson.
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'Matt really has complete control,' Carey said. 'You give him a lot of credit because he looks it on the field. He knows exactly what he wants to do and when he wants to do it. His confidence and control of what he's trying to do out there is very impressive.'