[4] Following the 2023 season the MAC eliminated divisions and the game will now feature the teams with the best conference records.
Gianni Spetic hit a 53-yard field goal and won Special Teams Player of the Game.
[11] For the first time in its history, the game featured the teams with the best conference records without regard to divisions.
[13] Both teams enter the game without having lost since the first meeting[14][15] This will be the first time the schools have played twice in the same season.
In non-conference play they lost to power conference opponents Syracuse and Kentucky with wins over South Alabama and Morgan State.
[26][27][28][29] They opened conference play with wins over Akron and Central Michigan before losing to Miami.
[32][33][34] Ohio's nine-win season was accomplished with a run-oriented offense led by dual threat quarterback Paker Navarro who won MAC offensive player of the week the last three weeks of the regular season and four times overall.
[40][41] Miami started slowly as they opened the season with three consecutive non-conference losses to power conference opponents Northwestern, Cincinnati and Notre Dame.