Back to the Mid-American Newsfeed

Five Things Learned: Ball State Cardinals at Eastern Michigan Eagles

Ball State defeated Eastern Michigan 29 to 23 but what did we learn?

89 yards?

Kenneth Bailey
The Eastern Michigan ground game never seemed to get out of first gear.

As I said in my write up, it hasn’t seemed like Eastern Michigan has established a ground game. It nearly burned them against Central Connecticut. It definitely burned them against Central Michigan. It didn’t help them against Ball State. There were a few times that Coach Creighton tried to open things up with the end around but it didn’t take Ball State long to figure that out.