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Podcast: Big Bets On Campus Episode: MAC Betting Preview | 2026 Segment: Eastern Michigan podcast segment **Top Team-Specific Takeaways** - The only team that has the same head coach, quarterback, offense coordinator, defensive coordinator is Eastern Michigan. Transcript excerpt: The exceptions to the rule. I mean might have as an eighty four, Western Michigan at seventy first, Like that's high for the MAC these days, because like some of these other G six conferences have someone shines, they transfer out. The cream of the crop. Though, is Eastern Michigan top twenty returning production end experience, so they are the outlayer from a positive perspective. We'll get to EMU have some disagreement on the Eagles, which is always good for the podcast, But there's a lot of change here. We could see I don't know seven eight transfer starting quarterbacks. I think like up to ten teams might have new quarterbacks. The only teams that I'm confident that will have the same quarterbacks or Western Michigan, Kent State, and Eastern Michigan. Right, I think that's it. The only team that has the same head coach, quarterback, offense coordinator, defensive coordinator is Eastern Michigan. So there's a lot of change about half the league as new offensive coordinator, half the league as a new defensive coordinator. I'm sorry, I guess I should say all same quarterback, head coach off the quarter defense corner is Kent State. The favorites for the conference as of right now, depending on the book that you look at, looks like Toledo is the favorite despite widespread changes. Jason Kandall is out. Incomes a lot of guys from Mercer, a lot of players, a lot of coaches, including head coach Mike Jacobs. And then that's followed by Miami Ohio, who's looking to go to their fourth straight MAC championship game. At about plus four thirty Western Michigan, right around the same price range the defending champs of last year. Then you get into some longer shots, which we'll get to, but let's dive in. I guess we'll start with the favorite. They're going to need those guys on the two deep who were I mean, it was a big bonus at least for just some opportunities for the coaching staff to have their hands on them and kind of work some things in because they're going to need some guys to really arrive this year and play some significant snaps. So just those are kind of the little things that can help a team jump from lower middle class to all of a sudden competing for a conference championship. 00:42:42 Speaker 2: Let's move on to another team, the other team in the mid tier. From my future's perspective, EMU Eastern Michigan win total sitting at six and a half juice to the under. They're around ten to one to win the league. My futures that I've played some fourteen to one. It's come down a bit like anything above ten to one. As always, these these G six futures can vary widely from book to book. You don't want to take a ten to one. If there's a thirteen to one available, that stuff matters. But what's the case for Eastern Michigan. Part of it is, look, we just covered the top of the conference, like Toledo is mercer Mine of Ohio has question marks. Buff I add Western Michigan we think takes a step back. Ohio we think takes a step back. You're making a case for Central Michigan, who's you know, running out like a triple op. They're going to be in like they could lose like any they also could lose many games that they're going to be in like close games a lot, and their defense has questions. And this is the one team in the league that is that ranks in the top eighty in returning production and they're in the top twenty. They bring their quarterback, they probably have one of the best quarterback situations in the entire conference. They have one of the best head coaches. They always play close games.