A truly weird conicidence occurred last week that was MAC-related.
Ball State loses a 51-48 scoreathon to Buffalo in OT.
UMass is an honorary MAC member: a past member, a 2025 member and scheduler of no less than 5 games versus MAC opponents in 2024.
Tied at 28, UMass kicker, Jacob Lurie, could have walked it off with a 43-yarded. No bueno. Undaunted, UMass scores a TD in overtime. Sadly, Lurie misses the extra point. No bueno encore.
Liberty scores a TD and kicks the game-winning extra point. Heartbreak for the Minutemen.
Both Ball State and UMass were SO close to winning. One can only wonder if a reversal of said outcomes would have meant that Don Brown and Mike Neu would have avoided their firings early this week.
Baseball is a game of inches. When it comes to job survival as head coach, it seems like the same adage applies to college football employment.