The 2023 season's largest margin: Eastern Michigan 24, Ball State 10. A 14-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2023 — The Correction
2023 is a losing-side chapter for Eastern Michigan. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Austin SmithQB1,775 passing yards
- Samson EvansRB635 rushing yards
- Jaylon JacksonRB576 rushing yards
- Tanner KnueWR479 receiving yards
- JB Mitchell IIIWR398 receiving yards
- Hamze ElzayatWR360 receiving yards
- Joe SparacioLB139 tackles
- Chase KlineLB124 tackles
- Quentavius ScandrettDB58 tackles
- Mikah ColemanDL4 sacks
- Peyton PriceDL3.5 sacks
- Justin JeffersonDL2.5 sacks
Season leaders, 2023.
The season's deepest loss: Eastern Michigan 10, South Alabama 59. A 49-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Eastern Michigan fell to South Alabama 10-59 in the postseason.
"Fly Eagles Fly"
2023 sits in Eastern Michigan'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.