Texas State and Eastern Michigan will begin a two-game series in 2021, the Bobcats hitting the road for the first meeting and then hosting the Eagles for the second in 2025.
EMU head coach Chris Creighton has led the program to three bowl appearances in the last five years. But the team struggled to perform up to its standards after the Mid-American Conference pushed back the start of its season to November, losing the first four games on the schedule but winning the last two.
The Bobcats and Eagles were somewhat mirror images of each other in 2020. A majority of EMU’s struggles came on defense, where the unit gave up at least 27 points in every contest and allowed 490.3 yards per game, a bottom-six mark in the FBS (and just slightly better than Texas State’s 494.9 yards allowed per game).
