Friday-before-the-Northeastern-Game Articles

Jeff Thomas of the Springfield Republican has a Huskies game article here .

The Boston Herald has a UMass-Northeastern game story here .

Matty Vautour has an article here .

The Gridiron Power Index has returned and is here . UMass is tied for 9th in the first edition of 2008.

Bruce Dowd of the College Sporting News has a long column about the CAA in his weekly "The CAA Today" essay.

The Sports Network has it's weekly column on this week's games "Around FCS" here . They pick Northeastern to upset the Minutemen.

Our past I-A opponent Texas Tech has Nebraska at home .

Albany has its first home game since November of last year .

James Madison plays Richmond in the game-of-the-week in the CAA----and maybe in all of FCS.

Matt Lawrence was released from the Seattle Seahawks practice squad .