I've got the MAC football preview on right now, and they mentioned something that I enjoyed hearing. Every team in the MAC, except OU, is playing a 12 game schedule this year. In playing all these OOC games the MAC is playing less games against 1AA competition than every BCS conference in the country.
That's kinda cool, and I like to hear that.
Interesting MAC stat...
I suppose OOC results will always be a double edged sword. I like more 1A games, but a poor conference OOC record always seems to give mid majors a disproportionately rougher ride in the kudos stakes than a comparatively strong OOC record at season's end.
I read Stewart Mandel's article about potential BCS gatecrashers in SI this morning, and I thought it was interesting from the MAC's standpoint that he named two teams capable of making a BCS splash (Northern Illinois (5th of 10, and Toledo (10th of 10)). Not sure about Toledo, but Toledo, Akron, whoever, whatever. A few years ago, I am not sure the MAC would be considered to have enough depth to warrant 2 entries in this kind of list.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/w ... index.html
I read Stewart Mandel's article about potential BCS gatecrashers in SI this morning, and I thought it was interesting from the MAC's standpoint that he named two teams capable of making a BCS splash (Northern Illinois (5th of 10, and Toledo (10th of 10)). Not sure about Toledo, but Toledo, Akron, whoever, whatever. A few years ago, I am not sure the MAC would be considered to have enough depth to warrant 2 entries in this kind of list.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/w ... index.html
