UMass Football News-- The Ides of November 2025

 

Note the 4:30 kickoff time.

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UMass game notes for the Ohio game.

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Ohio's game notes for UMass.

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Coach Harasymiak's press conference for the Ohio game. 

Another Minuteman player is out for the season. This time starting center Benjamin Roy.

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Sports Book wire predicts Bobcats 41 Minutemen 6.

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UMass Football News--November 14th, 2025

 The Minuteman Command reports the quarterback room was a disappointment.

When AJ missed the wide open Jax Markovich in the first quarter, it really hurt UMass' chances against a stout Northern Illinois defense. It's the story of this whole year. No one is making plays.

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Hustle Belt says Northern Illinois dominates UMass 45-3.

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Forbes has a post on how the MAC conference and ESPN made mid-week football popular. 

Except for sports, there is literally nothing else to watch.. 

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MAC conference tie-breakers for who gets to go the the championship game.

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UMass Football News--November 13th, 2025

 This is surreal. Every time I think it can't get worse, it does.

Nothin' left for this season but survival.

I did like the Minuteman's uniforms. The white helmets with the flag decal and the black uni's were very sharp.  I liked it much better than the grays. They should keep that combo.

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UMass write-up here. 

Northern Illinois write-up here. 

The Minuteman Command says UMass blasted by NIU. 

Coach Harasymiak's post game press conference. 

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Buffalo lost to Central Michigan.

Western Michigan beat Ohio to go to 5-1 in the MAC conference. 

MAC conference standings with two weeks to go.

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Game Day--Northern Illinois 2025

 Northern Illinois is leaving the MAC for the Mountain West, so this might be the last Huskies-Minutemen game for a while. UMass is 0-2 all-time against Northern Illinois. We were destroyed both times in 2012 and 2013 by scores of 0-63 and 19-63 under Charlie Molnar.

The Huskies offense is truly horrid and tonight is the Minutemen's best chance for a win in 2025. If we lose to NIU, an 0-12 season is looming..

If UMass can clean up the mistakes, we could be competitive. Northern Illinois has a better defense than we do, so scoring more than 10 points is the goal.

I'll be cheering for the Minutemen. Go UMass!

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The Minutemen Command reports Coach Harasymiak is expecting a battle against NIU.

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The Hampshire Gazette says winless and injured UMass faces Northern Illinois Wednesday. 

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Hustle Belt previews the game and predicts the NIU defense will prevail against the even-more-horrid UMass offense 17-3.

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Covers.com says take the under (43.5 points) as the two worst offenses in football won't reach 43 combined points.

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Holy Crap! College football News predicts UMass 20 NIU 17.

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College Sports Wire predicts Northern Illinois 20 UMass 7.

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The Northern Star reports NIU looks to right past wrongs against the Minutemen.

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UMass Football News--November 11th, 2025

 NIU finally has their game notes for UMass up.

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Hustle Belt has their weekly MAC Conference power rankings up. UMass and NIU meet tomorrow in the battle for the bottom. 

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Sports Book Wire has some stats on the Minutemen-Huskies game. The literal two worst offenses in college football collide.

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Bleacher Nation thinks UMass will beat the spread but only have a 23% chance to win the game.

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Hustle Belt has their Monday MAC Conference musings. Akron's beat-down of UMass was their largest margin of victory in 23 years..

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Ohio, Miami (Ohio), Buffalo and Western Michigan are still neck-and-neck for the conference title.

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40 college football players are suspended after three brawls last week.

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UMass Football News--November 10th, 2025

 UMass hosts Northern Illinois tomorrow at 7:00 PM.

Still no game notes from the Huskies. 

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The Daily Collegian previews the UMass-Northern Illinois game and points out the struggling offenses on both teams. 

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College Football News breaks down the MAC Championship race for the rest of the season. 

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College Football News predicts bowl games for UMass opponents Iowa, Missouri, Miami (Ohio), Western Michigan, Central Michigan and Temple.

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UMass Football News--November 9th, 2025

 The 2-7 Northern Illinois Huskies open as a 10.5 point favorite over the Minutemen.

Interesting stat: NIU is #133 in FBS scoring at 12.2 points/game and UMass is #134 in FBS scoring at 11.3 points a game. 

UMass is dead last (#134) in total offense, NIU is #132. Two really, really bad offenses..

However, Northern Illinois is #55 in total defense. UMass is #127 in total defense.

UMass is #129 in scoring defense. Since the Minutemen struggle to score more than 10 points a game, the Huskies should win comfortably

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Temple lost a close one to Army 14-13.

Bryant beat Albany 27-24 for their first ever CAA victory. 

Iowa lost a heart-breaker to Oregon on a last minute field goal.

Missouri was handled by Texas A&M 38-17. 

Kent State plays Akron on the 11th.

Buffalo plays Central Michigan on the 12th.

Ohio plays Western Michigan on the 11th.

Bowling Green fell to 1-5 in the MAC with a 27-21 loss to Eastern Michigan. 

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While on the treadmill yesterday, I watched UConn beat Duke. Great game. Eight lead changes. That was the second ACC team the Huskies beat this year.

 MISERY LOVES COMPANY VI

Boston College fell to 1-9 as they were crushed by SMU 45-13.

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