Members of the 2006 CMU football team gather on the field after the first quarter during the game against NIU on Saturday, Oct. 8 at Kelly / Shorts Stadium.
As part of Homecoming weekend, Central Michigan football fans welcomed back the 2006 Mid-American Conference Championship team to Kelly/Shorts Stadium on Saturday to recognize the members' decade-old accomplishment.
Under head coach Brian Kelly, the 2006 Chippewas (10-4) earned the program’s first conference championship since 1994. CMU took home two more MAC titles in 2007 and again in 2009 under head coach Butch Jones.
A total of 16 former players were introduced in front of 20,044 fans at Kelly/Shorts Stadium before halftime of CMU's game against Ball State — a 24-21 Chippewa victory.