The most important thing to know about Central Michigan is that they are the team that saved the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl.
By agreeing Monday night to make the 315-mile trip from Tucson, where the Chippewas were slated to play COVID-hit Boise State in the Arizona Bowl, to El Paso, CMU provided an opponent for Washington State in Friday's 10 a.m. kickoff. CMU was scheduled to make the drive down I-10 to El Paso on Thursday.
Here are five other things to know about the first Mid-American Conference team ever to play in the Sun Bowl.