Western Michigan (7-4, 5-2 MAC) at Northern Illinois (4-7, 3-4 MAC)
November 26, 2019 • 7 pm • ESPNU
DeKalb, Ill. • Huskie Stadium (23,595 • FieldTurf)

• Western Michigan closes out the regular season at Northern Illinois and caps #MACtion with its third consecutive Tuesday tilt ... If the Broncos win, they will advance to the Mid-American Conference Championship ... If Northern Illinois wins, up to five-way tie scenarios are possible within the West Division ... Miami (Ohio) has already won the MAC East Division ... WMU downed the Redhawks 38-16 on October 12
• Western Michigan is coming off its only open date of the season, having last played November 12 at Ohio ... The Broncos have just three games from October 27 - November 26
• In its last game, WMU traveled to Ohio and held off the Bobcats for a 37-34 overtime victory as senior RB LeVante Bellamy scored the game-winning four-yard touchdown in the extra session ... The Huskies hosted Eastern Michigan on November 19 and fell 45-17 as the Eagles exploded for 24 points in the third quarter
•  The Broncos and Huskies will meet for the 45th time in program history Tuesday with Western Michigan leading the all-time series 25-19 ... Western Michigan has won two of the last three contests between the two after halting a seven-game losing streak to the Huskies in 2016 ... The Broncos' last win in DeKalb was a 17-13 triumph on October 13, 2007
•  This year's senior class owns 33 victories, the third most in program history and two shy of the 2017 group for the program record
• The Broncos are looking for their second consecutive road win after earning their first road triumph of the year at Ohio, their first since a 35-10 victory at Central Michigan October 20, 2018
•  Western Michigan heads into Tuesday's contest looking for its eighth win of the campaign ... The Broncos have secured bowl eligibility for a program-record sixth consecutive season and have captured seven or more victories in five of the last six seasons
•  The Broncos finished the home campaign with a 6-0 ledger, joining the 2016 squad as the only ones since 2000 to go 6-0 in Kalamazoo
• Senior QB Jon Wassink is one of 12 recipients of the 2019 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Award, presented by Fidelity Investments, making him a finalist for the Campbell Trophy® Presented by Mazda ... Wassink becomes the third Western Michigan student-athlete to earn the NFF National Scholar-Athlete Award, joining Tim Hiller (2009) and Zach Terrell (2016) ... Terrell won the Campbell Trophy in 2016 
•  Senior TE Giovanni Ricci is one of eight semifinalists for the John Mackey Award, presented  annually to the top tight end in college football
• Bellamy, one of 10 semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award, has 21 rushing touchdowns in 2019, the most in the country and second most in a single season in program history ... Bellamy tops the MAC in scoring (11.50 points/game) and is second in rushing (116.73 yards/game)

126 — Points by Bellamy this fall, tied for second nationally, tops in the Mid-American Conference and fourth most in a year in Bronco history
50 — Consecutive games started by senior C Luke Juriga, every game of his career and tied for the longest streak in the country
27.6 — Points per road game for WMU, compared with 43.0 points per home tilt in 2019
11-2 — Record under head coach Tim Lester in MAC games when scoring 30 or more points
8 — Plays of 60+ yards from scrimmage by Western Michigan's offense, most in the MAC and double the team's 2018 total
7.5 — Fewer points per game allowed by Western Michigan's defense in 2019 than in 2018
7 — Western Michigan MAC West Division Players of the Week this fall
4 — Ranking of junior LB Treshaun Hayward among FBS players in tackles per game (11.55)
3-1 — Record under Lester in overtime games, all of which have been played on the road
3 — NFF Campbell Trophy finalists for WMU since 2009, tied for the third most nationally
3 — Consecutive games without a turnover for Western Michigan, last throwing an INT in the fourth quarter at Eastern Michigan October 19

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