With a date with Toledo not on the calendar until next Tuesday, the Bowling Green football team has the weekend off, sort of.

The Falcons can roll into the Glass Bowl Tuesday, beat the Rockets by 100 and still not win the Mid-American Conference title.

Thanks to a loss to Northern Illinois to start MAC play this season, the Falcons need a little magic and a little help from Eastern Michigan this weekend in order to reclaim their MAC West title and have a shot at winning the MAC for the first time since 1992.

Eastern (4-6, 4-3) is playing Northern (7-3, 6-1) this weekend. If the Eagles can knock off the Huskies, it would make the winner of Tuesday’s game the MAC West champion.

BG running back P.J. Pope knows exactly who he’s pulling for this weekend.

“Eastern, obviously,” he said. “Because if they beat Northern, we’ve got a chance to win the MAC.”

The game has turned the tide in for the Falcons, who just three weeks ago were playing against that same Eastern team.

“I’m a huge Eastern fan this weekend,” BG center Scott Mruczkowski said. “If they can pull it off that would be awesome.”

But the chances of Eastern pulling it off are slim to none. They’re coming off a 69-17 loss to Kent State and don’t appear to have the weapons defensively to slow downthe Huskies’ offense, which is currently second in scoring offense in the MAC at 35.3 points per contest.

But the key for Eastern won’t be dwelling on the past, it will be looking to the future.

Eastern coach Jeff Geynk says the team didn’t look too much into the game against Kent State and chose instead to look at Northern Illinois.

“Theoretically, Northern Illinois attacks you, in the run game, a little more conventionally,” Genyk said. “We have improved in stopping the straightforward running plays in the last few games. Hopefully that will continue.”

The key for Eastern will be stopping the running game and Northern running back Garrett Wolfe, who leads the conference with 1,247 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns this season. Wolfe sat out of the Huskies’ loss to Toledo with an eye injury and watched the offense struggle in a game they only gained 180 yards of total offense.

That has been the case most of the season for the Huskies. In three Northern losses, Wolfe has carried the ball 22 times for 69 yards. It is unknown whether his injury will affect his play against Eastern.

“On any given Saturday, anything can happen,” Mruczkowski said. “If Eastern takes care of Northern’s offense then they have a shot at it.”

If the defense can even slow down Northern’s offense, they’ll have a shot at the win as their offense should be more than up to the task of moving the football.

This season, the Eagles have the MAC’s fourth best offense, averaging 428.4 yards and 31.2 points per game.

The Eagles will have some extra fan support this weekend as all eyes in the Bowling Green football program will be fixed on Ypsilanti.