For Eastern Michigan this is their 9th game in 9 weeks, and the idea that Army looks ahead to the Air Force game is just not true. They beat Temple and Wake Forest the last two years the week before Air Force, and MOnken has called Eastern Michigan one of the best teams they've played all year.

Actually Eastern Michigan is much like Army in the fact that they play hard, but Eastern Michigan has not yet figured out how to win the close games while Army has been very good in one possession games over their last 20. Monken is a very underrated coach for Army and he has this team rolling right now. He will sell the poor effort last week in the 4th quarter and Army will get off to a great start and dominate time of possession.

We all know Army will run 88% of the time, and they are going up against an Eastern Michigan run defense ranking 101st in yards per carry allowed. In last year's matchup they allowed Army to roll for 413 yards. Army's starting QB is ? for this game, but the Sophomore Cam Thomas should be able to step in no problem as this is a system, and Thomas had 137 yards rushing a week ago vs. Miami Ohio defense that ranks 30th against the run. Army also enjoys edges in penalties per game by 3/game, special teams, and third downs where they are +23% compared to Eastern Michigan who is -6% allowing 41% third down conversions on defense.