BOWLING GREEN — A defense that allows 626 and 442 yards in its first two games, respectively, is traditionally not a defense primed for a wholesale recovery in the immediate future.
Especially when those struggles occur against opponents as disparate in talent as UCLA and Eastern Kentucky.
Bowling Green’s defense, however, looked like a different unit last Saturday.
Even if the Falcons were outgained by Marshall 547-377, and even if Bowling Green remained in the business of giving up big plays in the early going. What a difference three turnovers — the most the Falcons have forced in a game so far this season — can make.