2018 UMass Minutemen Football Schedule**TENTATIVE** |
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| Saturday Sep. 1 |
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at Boston College Eagles Alumni Stadium, Chestnut Hill, MA |
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| Saturday Sep. 8 |
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at Georgia Southern Eagles Paulson Stadium, Statesboro, GA |
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| Saturday Sep. 15 |
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at FIU Golden Panthers FIU Stadium, Miami, FL |
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| Saturday Sep. 22 |
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Charlotte 49ers Amherst or Foxborough, MA |
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| Saturday Sep. 29 |
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at Ohio Bobcats Peden Stadium, Athens, OH |
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| Saturday Oct. 6 |
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USF Bulls McGuirk Stadium, Amherst, MA |
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| Saturday Oct. 13 |
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| Saturday Oct. 20 |
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Coastal Carolina Chanticleers McGuirk Stadium, Amherst, MA |
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| Saturday Oct. 27 |
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at UConn Huskies Rentschler Field, East Hartford, CT |
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| Saturday Nov. 3 |
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Troy Trojans Amherst or Foxborough, MA |
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| Saturday Nov. 10 |
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BYU Cougars Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA |
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| Saturday Nov. 17 |
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at Georgia Bulldogs Sanford Stadium, Athens, GA |
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| Saturday Nov. 24 |
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UMass Headlines
Day
August 9, 2016 at 11:40 am
This is a cute article, I would’ve kept out A&M vs UTSA since this is their 1st ever meeting.
Hail Southern!
August 9, 2016 at 6:19 pm
If you watched the 2014 Georgia Southern @ Georgia Tech game or better yet, if you attended the game, then you would know the ACC referees took the game out of the players hands with a terrible reversal of an ON THE FIELD call (requires indisputable evidence…it’s still being disputed). Georgia Southern was the better team that day and still has the more dynamic roster. Thank you Paul Johnson and the Tech AD for not being scared (UGAg) and rescheduling the Eagles…GS won’t leave it in question this go around. It would be great for the state if GS and Tech continued to schedule a game (maybe a H&H once Paulson Stadium is expanded to 30k) every other year. Athletically, as of late, the two schools are closer to peers than big brother-little brother.
Kevin Kelley
August 9, 2016 at 8:24 pm
Georgia has played Georgia Southern six times since 1992, Georgia Tech only once. I don’t think Georgia is scared of GS.
Hail Southern!
August 10, 2016 at 5:09 pm
Interesting that 5 of those 6 times were when Georgia Southern had 63 scholarships. The 6th game was a carry over from GS’s FCS days and Georgia elected to move the game from 2016 to 2015 probably because they didn’t want an additional year of FBS recruiting for GS. Georgia was gifted that win last year and every dawg fan knows it. For both parties, it is understood that Georgia no longer wants any part in scheduling GS and frankly that’s fine by me.
Atlanta_Mafia
August 11, 2016 at 10:23 am
Don’t worry Kevin Kelly, that’s just GS non-sense talk. They told GSU that they’d never beat GS – but in the just the second meeting (last year) GSU gave them their worst defeat in the history of Paulson High School County Stadium, The glory days of GS are behind them. The newsflash to GS is that they are the #4 team in the state of Georgia and they think that they are #1.
William Satterwhite
August 11, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Georgia Tech got up big in that game and then let up and allowed Georgia Southern back in, the Eagles were far from the better team that day.
H
August 11, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Georgia Southern’s coach was on his way out and focused on a million dollar salary…way to go. How’d that bowl game work out for the mighty Panthers? Let’s compare some numbers for a minute…17-53 (129th in FBS) vs. 375-200-10 (14th in FBS)…0 D1 National Championships vs. 6 D1 National Championships (most all-time)…0 D1 Conference Titles vs. 11 D1 Conference Titles. WHEW! I can certainly understand why a Panther fan (those exist?) would cling like hell to that win against Georgia Southern! Run along now, let us men get back to it.
Atlanta_Mafia
August 12, 2016 at 7:11 pm
GS has never beat UGA – GS has never beat GT – GS is 50/50 against GSU.
So your excuse is that GS got pounded at home by GSU cause your coach was dreaming about a real job? Really? That’s all it took for the mighty Beagles to lose at home? A coach’s daydream? All that tripe that GS spews about GSU and you got pounded in just the second effing year by a five year old football team? Fact is that Richt got fired because he almost lost to GS so that should tell you about how little respect there is for the GS product. So maybe GS needs to realize that they may start to fall behind KSU or Mercer. You guys have such an incredible false sense of entitlement from all those Pee-Wee league trophies. Probably ought to go on back to FCS Pee-Wee league! How about that Capt GAyTAy?
Hail Southern!
August 13, 2016 at 1:11 pm
The Real GSU has played UGA and GT once with equal scholarships. Do you understand that having 22 less scholarships is a disadvantage? Once the playing field was made even, the Real GSU lost by a combined 10 points in their first outings with 85 scholarships. Again, I appreciate GT rescheduling the Real GSU unlike UGAg (I bet you’re a UGAg fan before a GAy St fan). Do you understand that when a head coach does not prep their team for a game that the team is unprepared? Big concepts here. Do you have any facts or just opinions? Richt was on the hot seat at the start of that season and the season before that…try to keep up. The fact that you recognize KSU and Mercer says a lot about where you view GAy St. Pee-Wee trophies…you’re talking about Division 1 National Championships. Do you understand that prior to the College Football Playoff, the FCS Playoff was the highest form of a college football playoff in existence? Oh but computers picking two teams worked out every time. The Real GSU should go back to FCS? You mean the Real GSU with the 18-7 FBS record (.720)? How about GAy St with the 7-30 FBS record (.189). This is too easy man, c’mon. (A) Why would GAy St field a football team and (B) why would ANYONE be a fan???? LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!
stoopnagle
August 26, 2016 at 4:03 pm
Southern has never beaten Georgia and never will.
Matt Rigby
August 9, 2016 at 9:20 pm
what about the Brigham Young-Utah State game or the Notre Dame-Navy game?
David
August 9, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Neither BYU nor USU are a Power 5. And Notre Dame and Navy aren’t in the same state.
Adam
August 10, 2016 at 11:47 am
Matt probably meant to say the BYU-Utah game. Utah is a P5, but BYU is not. The summary would read something like this:
Utah-Brigham Young
When: Saturday, Sept. 10, 5:30pm MT
Where: Rice-Eccles Stadium, Salt Lake City, UT
All-Time Series Leader: Utah, 58-34-4 (62.5%)
Last-Five: Utah, 5-0 (100%)
Utah has dominated its little brother, BYU, over the last 13 meetings (10-3, 77%). And they will certainly do so again this fall.
Bill
August 10, 2016 at 3:27 pm
how would BYU qualify as a “Big” brother?
C
August 11, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Bill, Utah would be the big brother
Mark S
August 11, 2016 at 3:43 pm
Someone asked that on Twitter, FBSchedules replied “BYU generally considered P5 so not included.”
Matt
August 11, 2016 at 4:54 pm
BYU fits the P5 requirement for scheduling for most if not all conferences. The SEC looks at BYU as a P5…last time I checked the SEC is the premier program in College Football.
Bill
August 10, 2016 at 3:32 pm
good article ….but i would say Georgia Southern has a much better chance of beating Georgia Tech than many of the games you have ranked as more likely. I don’t think very many people would be surprised is Georgia Southern wins that game.
KF Baxter
August 11, 2016 at 3:25 pm
Utah had to be invited to a conference to be considered P5. BYU did it on their own.
Wade
August 12, 2016 at 7:54 am
BYU is considered by some to be a P5 “for scheduling purposes.” But we’re not actually a P5, since we don’t belong to a P5 conference. That’s why it’s so important for us to get into the Big XII…the fate and viability of our football program rests on it. If we don’t get in and become an actual P5, our future looks no better than that of New Mexico State.
Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 1:49 pm
By that thinking, Toledo would also be considered a Power 5 Power Team, since it can beat 1/2 or more of teams from Power 5 Conferences…
zerome4sooners
August 12, 2016 at 8:23 am
Little brother = going on every web site possible to talk about how Utah should really be a big brother
Sean
August 15, 2016 at 3:04 pm
I think ECU is NC State’s big brother when it comes to football.
Mike
August 22, 2016 at 8:28 pm
ECU has not only won 3 out of 5, but 9 out of the last 15.
Go Pirates! Argh!
Rob
August 20, 2016 at 8:39 am
TEMPLE!!!!
scotta@genesyspackaging.com
August 22, 2016 at 3:39 pm
What about Penn State vs Pitt this year?
bwburke94
August 26, 2016 at 10:49 pm
Pitt is P5.
Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 2:00 pm
PSU is B1G/Power 5 also
Craig
August 23, 2016 at 1:11 am
I don’t think many Ohio State fans see any MAC schools as “little brother.” The only school that would make sense to have that designation would be U of Cincinnati.
Buzz Waldron
September 8, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Toledo, Ohio and BGSU, Ohio are both vastly better than Cincinnati, Ohio !!! As is Ohio Bobcats