Published 12/6/2008
by Matt Schaefer
at Bleacher Report - College Football
The University at Buffalo Bulls were facing their toughest task of the season coming into the Mid-American Conference Championship game last night. Coming in, everything was turned into the Ball State Cardinals favor.
Ball State was coming into the game ranked No. 12 in the nation and had a 12-0 record to go along with it. The Cardinals have never lost to Buffalo, going 7-0 all-time against the MAC East foe.
They had junior quarterback, Nate Davis who threw 25 touchdown passes coming into this game, along with 3,095 passing yards (2nd in the MAC). The future NFL quarterback with a big time arm, was also named MAC Offensive Player of the Year and had the 6th best QB rating in the entire nation, at 169.3.
Ball State also had one of the best running backs in the nation to complement him. MiQuale Lewis came into the big game with 1,570 rushing yards and 20 TDs, ranking 4th in the nation with averaging 130.8 rushing yards per game.
UB was going up against a defense that was only allowing 16.7 ...
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