2018 The Correction

2018 is a losing-side chapter for Ball State. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 4-8
Final Result Losing season
AP Final post-bowls
SP+ -7.8 last-week
Era
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
W vs Cent Con 42-6 L @ ND 16-24 L @ Indiana 10-38 L vs West Ken 20-28 W vs Kent Sta 52-24 L vs Nort Ill 16-24 W @ Cent Mic 24-23 L vs East Mic 20-42 L @ Ohio 14-52 L @ Toledo 13-45 W vs West Mic 42-41 L @ Miam (OH 21-42

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2018.

Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: Ball State 42, Central Connecticut 6. A 36-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: Ball State 14, Ohio 52. A 38-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Chirp Chirp"
— Ball State fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What It Meant

2018 sits in Ball State's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.