BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – The WKU football team is just a pair of days out from its trip to Springfield, Missouri, where the Tops will take on the first-year Conference USA member Missouri State Bears.

Back in the early 2000’s, the teams shared a league in the Gateway Football Conference but since 2006 have not went head-to-head.

Saturday will be a reunion not just for the matchup, but also for some members on both the WKU and Missouri State staffs.

Two of the many connections tying the programs together include the Bears athletic director Patrick Ransdell, who played baseball on the Hill and is the son of former Hilltopper President Gary Ransdell, and Bears head coach Ryan Beard played for the Tops football team and graduated from WKU himself.

Hilltopper head coach Tyson Helton believes t

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