BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green playing a team on threshold of the top 25 — indeed, the leading vote-getter outside the Associated Press poll— was always a possibility in September 2022.
However, prompting Falcons fans to guess before the season which opponent would fit this criterion would probably have elicited UCLA or Mississippi State as answers.
Instead, it’s Marshall thundering into Doyt Perry Stadium on the heels of one of its biggest wins in school history, a 26-21 upset of Notre Dame in South Bend. The Thundering Herd, now in the Sun Belt, are a familiar foe to older Bowling Green fans — Marshall and the Falcons spent 23 years together in the Mid-American Conference — but an unknown quantity to this generation of Falcons players.