Nate Davis and Ball State Remain Undefeated With Two Games Left

How many of the top 25 (both AP and BCS) college football teams are undefeated? The answer is 4. One of these teams is Muncie, Indiana’s own Ball State University.

Ball State is a college waiting for it’s chance to become a big time sports program. While that sounds like most colleges, Ball State is actually on the verge of making it happen.

With the Cards sitting at 15 in both the AP and BCS polls, they are starting to catch a few peoples’ eyes. While I was in Texas watching BSU’s victory over Central Michigan in a bar I had people keep coming up to me and asking who Ball State was, where they were, and why no one had heard about them earlier. I answered by saying it was in Indiana, that it was the state’s number one party school (you know I am right), and that they actually had heard about its football program years ago.

Back in 2000 David Letterman started campaigning to have the stadium named after him, and covering the school’s longest active losing streak in NCAA Division 1. The next question was usually “How are you so good now?” and my answer was along the lines of “We sent our coach (Bill Lynch) to I.U. and found the most NFL-ready QB in college football”. Since the people were watching the game with me, they couldn’t argue that Nate Davis could be the best QB in the NCAA not named Tebow.

Ball State is currently riding a wave, or gaining a bandwagon. It seems late in the season (only 2 games left, the 25th against Western Michigan then the M.A.C. Championship) but many are just starting to realize how special this team is. They lost their top WR (Dante Love) to a terrible spinal injury that has ended his career early in the season and yet Nate Davis is still seemingly able to throw a TD on any given play. Their starting running back, MiQuale Lews, is listed at 5-6 and 186 lbs, but I’ve stood next to him and I’d be surprised if he was 175 lbs and 5-4. To make matters worse, they’re in Muncie Indiana, the same Muncie which played host to the defunct reality series “Armed and Famous”.

This team had only a few supporters going into this season (Jason Whitlock, a fellow Ball State University alumni, did predict an undefested season, so I can’t say no supporters). I don’t think many of the school’s students knew how to get to the stadium from the tailgate lot, and they have been nationally known as losers, yet they keep winning.

This team is giving all of us BSU alumnis something we can point to (other then Letterman) and say “Hey that’s us!”. Most importently of all, they are giving Ball State University the national recognition it deserves. I’m not going to make any predictions, I saw what happened to the Patriots after Simmons did that, but I will say that there is no school more deserving of a winner then Ball State.

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