MAC Bowls 2022

[Falconfreak90]

Good game going...UB leads 23-21 with 3:38 left.

[mbenecke]

Buffalo held on to win 23-21.

MAC is 3-2 in bowls this year, with just Ohio left to play.

[Class of 61]

A few guys have talked about how BAD the MAC Is this year… now, having watched many games involving a LOT of 6-6, 7-5 teams do the MAC teams look that bad? Miami lost a close game, stopped on2 yd line at end. BG seemed to play tight for 1 st half, perhaps trying to adjust w/o QB… then looked like different team in 2nd half. A bit more speed at LB might have caught the NMU QB on those scrambles.

WMU looked to be most impressive, UT had pretty solid outing , UB looked pretty decent today other than not finishing drives well, settling for FG ( from a solid kicker). This leaves OU left to try to finish off a pretty respectable bowl season for the conference.

My point is perhaps we’re not as far off as we thought overall. Loeffler’s comments about 6-6 teams were a bit “ overstated “ but honestly I haven’t been overly impressed with most teams that I’ve had time to watch.

[mbenecke]

61, I’ll own my comments. I’m definitely one that has said the MAC is bad on here. And while I still think that’s true to an extent, I’ve also come to realize that our weakness relative to other conferences isn’t as bad as I thought. If we continue to put less resources into football than other G5 conferences, though, the gap will continue to expand - but we’re still basically just as mediocre as any middling Sun Belt, C-USA, or MWC team.

[mbenecke]

Ohio wins their bowl in OT and the MAC finishes 4-2 in bowl games this year.