Football has its sights set solely on the Bowling Green Falcons, but it’s not with an eye on revenge.

The Huskies (10-2, 7-1 MAC) and the Falcons (7-5, 5-3 MAC) square off 6 p.m. Friday at Ford Field in Detroit in the Marathon MAC Championship game for the second year in a row.

Last season, the Falcons crushed the Huskies’ dreams of making it to back-to-back Bowl Championship Series games with a 47-27 gashing in the 2013 title game.

“As with any loss you’re not going to feel great about it,” said senior defensive end Jason Meehan during Monday’s MAC Championship teleconference. “We were very disappointed, but that’s last year, that’s definitely behind us. … Definitely a big letdown for us. We were very upset, as anybody would be. [The BCS implication] just adds to the disappointment. There’s a lot of opportunities out there, and I think we definitely left those on the table, and we definitely regret it.”

For the Huskies, quarterback Jordan Lynch and safety Jimmie Ward are gone. On the Bowling Green side, the Falcons have a new head coach in Dino Babers, and quarterback Matt Johnson, the 2013 MAC Championship game MVP, has been sidelined with an injury since the first game of the season.

With other personnel changes to boot, redshirt junior linebacker Boomer Mays said there has hardly been any talk of getting revenge on the Falcons.

“It’s more so, ‘Win the championship,’” Mays said. “It could be anybody who we play in the championship. It’s the championship game, you’re gonna want to win it. That’s just our mentality: Go out there and win.”

The Huskies seem to be less on the side of seeking revenge and more on the side of avenging last season’s title game loss so they can send this year’s group of seniors out with a MAC Championship.

“We just want to get that ring, that championship,” said redshirt senior safety Dechane Durante. “We fell short last year, and you can’t really point fingers. The past is the past. We got an opportunity to come make it right this year, and that’s what we’re going to do. We’re not really looking at the negatives of it. We just look at it as another opportunity to bring a championship back home to NIU.”