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"We have started this semester with a bang – five transfers, four early enrollee freshmen, and four junior college players," said Head Coach Chris Creighton, who is set to enter his 10th season at the school. "They are all on campus and working hard with our strength staff. Gabe Hoffmann, Chase Arrington, and Joey Mattord signed today and will join us with the rest of the incoming freshmen in June. It is a great group. We are very excited."
Overall, the highly anticipated class is ranked second in the Mid-American Conference and 85th in the FBS by 247Sports. However, Eastern jumps to first when looking at the average points per signee at 82.78.
EMU's average is the best since the service began tracking recruiting classes in 2011. The Green and White's previous best recruiting class according to 247Sports came in 2018 and again in 2020 when it tied for sixth-best in the MAC.
Eastern Michigan returns to the gray turf for its first spring practice in mid-March. The session kicks off a string of 15 practice dates during a four-week period that culminates with the program's annual spring football game in April.
Eastern Michigan is flying high after winning the 2022 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, 41-27, over San Jose State University, Dec. 20, in Boise, Idaho. It was the second postseason bowl game win for the program, and its first since it defeated the same SJSU team in the 1987 California Bowl in Fresno, Calif.
The Eagles finished the season with nine wins, the second-most in program history, and in addition to the Potato Bowl championship, also earned a co-Mid-American Conference West Division title, and won the Michigan MAC trophy (three-way rivalry between EMU, CMU, and WMU) for the first time since 2012.
In the midst of one of the most successful runs in program history, Eastern Michigan has made a bowl game appearance five times since 2016, a number that ties for the most by any team in the Mid-American Conference. Additionally, the team has now played in bowl games in four consecutive seasons (excluding COVID-shortened 2020 campaign) for the first time in school history, while 13 EMU student-athletes, as of yesterday, became the first in program history to be part of four postseason bowl games in their respective careers.
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