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2024 midseason: What BGSU football knows and doesn't know at halfway point

BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University’s football team has shown some positive trends in the right direction during the 2024 campaign.

There are still a lot of unknowns, however, for a Falcons’ team that entered the season with high expectations.

BGSU’s 2-4 record at the midway point of the regular season isn’t uncommon – it’s the fifth time in six years under coach Scot Loeffler that the Falcons have had that mark after six games – but it has a different feel to it. The wild discrepancies between games each week – like the first half of the 2023 season when BGSU lost to Ohio 38-7, beat Georgia Tech 38-27, and lost to Miami (Ohio) 27-0 in a three-game span – aren’t there anymore, and the Falcons have done enough each game to give themselves a chance to win,

“We typically have gotten better over the season, and this was a little bit backwards.