KALAMAZOO, MI -- Western Michigan's name has been on the tongues of numerous analysts in the past few weeks as they've taken on, and defeated, teams from the Mid-Eastern conference, the Big Ten and now the Sun Belt.

As they showed in Saturday's 49-31 win over Georgia Southern, they care not about conference affiliation.

The Broncos, led by a stellar effort by quarterback Zach Terrell, played a nice mix of run and pass to develop a lead in the first half the Eagles were never able to unseat.

Terrell threw touchdown passes to four different receivers and completed 18 for 27 and 270 yards. while rushing for 35 yards.

After a challenging 43-17 loss at Georgia Southern last season where the defense gave up 413 rushing yards, the Broncos rebounded well and gave up just 202 yards to the Eagles' triple option.

"It's an outstanding job against that outfit," Western coach P.J. Fleck said. "They're an incredible football team. They're going to run the football, they're going to get yards. Two hundred yards? This it the only time I'll ever say it: I'll take it."

"We were making adjustments on adjustments. Once they got done with what they do and we stopped it, they went to things we've never seen before. It was incredibly hard to stop and I'm very proud of our coaching staff."

The Broncos got on the board first with a 10 play, 56-yard drive that culminated in a 4-yard touchdown run by Jamauri Bogan.

The Eagles answered on their next possession with a 44-yard pass from Kevin Ellison to Wesley Fields to make the score 7-7.

Western turned up the heat in the second quarter to score three times.

Terrell fired three touchdown passes in the second quarter: A 37-yard touchdown pass to Michael Henry, an 8-harder to Carrington Thompson and a 35-yard touchdown to Corey Davis.

Kick returner/defensive back Darius Phillips ignited the crowd with a 100 yard return for a touchdown.

The Eagles answered with two scores: A 34-yard field goal by Younghoe Koo and a 33-yard touchdown pass to Myles Campbell to make the score at halftime Western Michigan 35, Georgia Southern 17.

The Broncos began the second half with an exciting pick six as Darius Phillips again showed his skills and returned an interception 70 yards for a score.

Georgia Southern answered ten minutes later with a touchdown of its own, a quick pass from Ellison to Montay Crocket to make the score Western Michigan 42, Georgia Southern 24.

Eagles running back L.A. Rarnsby ran 13 yards and dove at the pylon for a touchdown with 9:56 left in the game to close Western's lead to 11 points.

The Broncos slowly seeped the life out of the clock and finally scored again with 2:11 left in the game as Zach Terrell threw his fourth touchdown pass and second one to Michael Henry to make the score 49-31.

Jamauri Bogan ran the ball 26 times for 104 yards and one touchdown.