WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY

Western Michigan athletic director Kathy Beauregard had been waiting 20 years to win a Mid-American Conference football championship and her dream finally came true Friday night at Ford Field. Beauregard couldn’t be happier because a MAC title game record crowd of 45,615 — mostly WMU fans — watched the No. 13 Broncos (13-0) defeat Ohio 29-23. “I don’t know if they get how special undefeated is, but it doesn’t just happen. You look all over the country and years and years of history and you just don’t find it,” Beauregard said. “It’s been a magical season, and just an incredibly passionate group of student-athletes that love one another, are family, are undefeated and getting ready for a bowl game.” So does Beauregard feel the Broncos deserve to play in the Cotton Bowl, being the highest-ranked conference champion from the Group of Five? -David Goricki, The Detroit News– Read More