Once again, Ohio also owns this series having won 10 of the last 12 meetings, including the last 4 in Ypsilanti, and hasn't lost there in 22 years (not since 1999). Some things never change. I expect another Ohio win!
I'm not really sure how this matters much. EMU was consistently one of the worst teams in FBS. They haven't been recently. We were an above .500 team every season for about 15 years but this year we are one of the worst teams in the FBS. Of course, we are going to have a good record over recent history. But Frank Solich, Nathan Roark, AJ Ouellette, Blair Brown, Terrell Basham, and Casey Sayles are not coming out of the tunnel. Of course, we have a shot to win, Of course, all of us hope we will. Of course, we will be a substantial underdog and thus probably won't.
Did you use this logic to contend that we had almost no chance in beating CMU? No, you didn't. Somehow, the outcome of games with different players and coaches didn't matter to you then. Why suddenly does it matter now?