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Let's have some guesses. No peeking!! (yet)

My quick estimate is 10 conference games have been won by road teams this year.
I think 10 is much too low. Ball State won 3 MAC games on the road itself: Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, and Western Michigan. And both BG and NIU won on the road the past two nights. That's 5. Even Buffalo won one on the road--at Kent State. And didn't Central Michigan win at Miami and Western Michigan win at Eastern Michigan? Also BG and Toledo both won at Ball State. That's 10 I can come up with off the top of my head. So I would guess there have been at least 18-25 games won on the road this year.
Broncos are 3-1 on the road so far, if you include Temple.

L - Toledo
W - Temple
W - BGSU
W - EMU*
? - NIU

(* - Although I'd say EMU didn't have the home field advantage in this one)
BG is 4-0 MAC on the road and only 1-2 at home so far. 03-banghead

I'd say the road team has won at least 20 times this year.
A couple of weeks ago, Ohio and Toledo were the only MAC teams that were undefeated at home this year. Toledo beat Ohio to give them a home loss and now NIU beat Toledo to give us a home loss.

Every MAC school has lost at least 1 home game this year and every school has at least 2 conference losses. That is parity, for the good or bad of it.
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