The 2023 season's largest margin: Ball State 45, Indiana State 7. A 38-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2023 — The Correction
2023 is a losing-side chapter for Ball State. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Layne HatcherQB583 passing yards
- Kiael KellyQB577 passing yards
- Marquez CooperRB1,043 rushing yards
- Qian MagwoodWR358 receiving yards
- Ahmad EdwardsWR354 receiving yards
- Tanner KoziolTE295 receiving yards
- Keionte NewsonLB80 tackles
- Cole PearceLB78 tackles
- Jordan Riley-ScottS61 tackles
- Sidney Houston Jr.LB8 sacks
- Mikhari SibblisDL4 sacks
- Jack SapeDL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2023.
The season's deepest loss: Ball State 3, Georgia 45. A 42-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Chirp Chirp"
2023 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.