Saturday, December 2 
Miami (East Champion) vs. Toledo (West Champion),  Noon ET (ESPN)
MAC Football Championship Game (Detroit, Mich. – Ford Field)

This year’s MAC Football Championship will be played on Saturday, Dec. 2 at Noon ET on ESPN. This will mark the 20th MAC Football Championship Game hosted at Ford Field, and the 27th overall in the history of the Conference.

The MAC is the only non-autonomous FBS conference to sustain a championship game at a neutral site and has held its MAC Football Championship Game as a neutral site championship event at Ford Field since 2004.

Saturday’s title game between the RedHawks and Rockets will mark the second matchup between the two schools in MAC Championship history. The two schools last met for the MAC crown in 2004, with Toledo winning, 35-27.

Defending MAC Champions Toledo enters Saturday’s championship game having won or shared 13 MAC West Division Championships, the most division crowns of any MAC school. The Rockets will make their eighth appearance in the MAC title game and will look to become the first team to repeat as MAC Champions since Northern Illinois in 2011 and 2012.

Miami clinched the 2023 MAC East division title after posting its first 10-win regular season since 2003. Overall, the RedHawks are making its sixth appearance in the MAC Championship game and its first since the 2019 season. The RedHawks have claimed the MAC Championship title three times: 2003, 2010 and 2019.

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