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Ball State football players Brandon Crawford , Robert Eddins and MiQuale Lewis were named to the All-Mid-American Conference second team selected by the league's 13 coaches.

Three members of the football team -- Brandon Crawford, Robert Eddins and Quale Lewis -- were named to the All-Mid-American Conference Second Team, as selected by the league's 13 head coaches and announced on Wednesday.

The dreary setting inside Waldo Stadium on Tuesday night looked like blue skies and sunshine to Ball State's bedeviled but unbroken football team.

MiQuale Lewis, a Snider grad in his last year at Ball State, has petitioned the NCAA for another year of eligibility.

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DeKALB, Ill. -- At some point in Ball State's football game tonight, tailback Eric Williams will line up in the backfield where the quarterback is usually positioned.

MUNCIE -- Ball State finds itself in a drastically different role heading into its first November football game this season than it was just a year ago.

If two teams play a football game and nobody seems interested, does it count? It will for Ball State and Eastern Michigan on Saturday when two of the nation's six winless teams will square off and probably view each other as their best chance for a victory this season.

The manner in which Toledo quarterback Aaron Opelt scalded Ball State's pass defense in last Saturday's football game sent up a warning flag for the unit.

MUNCIE -- Charlie Todd admits it has taken him awhile to adjust to the level of football Ball State competes at after playing the past two seasons in junior college.

Section: SPORTS Originally published: 10/6/09 at 12:56 AM EST Last update: 10/6/09 at 1:08 AM EST The mental toughness of the young Ball State University football faced its biggest test of the season Saturday.

Ball State's seven-game losing streak in football ties for the second-longest skid in school history, behind only the ignominious 21-game streak of almost a decade ago.

Section: SPORTS Originally published: 9/15/09 at 12:26 AM EST Last update: 9/15/09 at 12:26 AM EST Line struggles: After not allowing a sack last week to the University of North Texas, Ball State University gave up five in Saturday's 23-16 loss to the University of New Hampshire.

Team records: Army 1-1, Ball State 0-2. Series: Army defeated Ball State 41-21 at West Point in 1999 in the teams' only previous meeting.

The Ball State football foxhole isn't particularly crowded right now. The Cardinals face their most dire situation since 2005, when they began the year 0-4, including three non-conference defeats by a combined 157-3 score.

Ball State football coach Stan Parrish admitted after his team's 0-2 start how amazed he was to see his team still alive late in Saturday night's 23-16 loss to Division I-AA opponent New Hampshire.

No wins and two losses.That wasn't supposed to be the way Ball State University opened the season against the University of North Texas and the University of New Hampshire."You don't practice for that," captain Brandon Crawford said.

Football AD -- After Davis -- apparently is much harder than many at Ball State thought it might be.

Sean McDonnell and Ball State coach Stan Parrish will both be looking for more out of their quarterbacks and offenses tonight when the University of New Hampshire football team takes its latest Football Bowl Subdivision test against the Cardinals in Muncie, Ind.

Section: SPORTS Originally published: 9/10/09 at 9:16 PM EST Last update: 9/10/09 at 9:16 PM EST A 12-0 regular season last year went a long way in erasing the memories of Ball State University football fans.