The Mid-Season Report Cards are a subjective look using objective numbers with a look toward the remainder of the season as well. Teams are being reviewed in random order once they reach 6 games.
Ok, I’ll try to be polite and concise. Miami is really, really bad. They lost their first two games by a combined 90-0, and in fact gave up 125 points before scoring their first. Things have been better since that start, but but not better enough to win a game.
- Wins: F. None, and never closer than 10. Read Post
Like C-USA, the MAC has a mix of conference and non-conference games this week. I’ll mention some of the other games, but since nobody here is contending on the national scene, we’ll mostly look at the conference games to keep an eye on tomorrow:
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Another tough weekend for the MAC. The league went 1-8 out of conference against 1-A teams, although Northern Illinois’ big win over Purdue provided something worth celebrating. In looking for a silver lining, most of the losses were to teams that were rightly favored by a lot, and the two losses to C-USA teams were both on the road. More good news is that there are few paycheck beatdowns left, as many of the teams now turn to their conference schedules. The question, as always for these clubs, is which teams can shake off a loss to a top ten or twenty team, and which teams let it get into their heads.
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This was an amazing weekend of college football. So amazing that it took me a full day to start processing everything. So we’re going to jump right into the conference weekly wrapups, beginning with the leagues I didn’t get to last week. We’ll go with the MAC first. Read Post