Sunday-- November 18th, 2012

I write these comments before I read the media articles on the game. I'm trying to give my own impressions of what went on.

One win and I'm disappointed when we're competitive and don't win the game :)

I was listening to the Boston College-VA Tech feed on the way down to Gillette. The BC announcers were marveling on how much offensive talent the Hokies had lost to graduation this year. It was so bad that VA Tech was forced to start a true freshman for the first time in seven years. You're a better mathematician than I if you can compute the number of true freshmen UMass has started this year.

Again the Minutemen defense played well enough to win. They wore down in the fourth quarter, but until then the defense again battled all game. You really can't expect to win games 12-0.

The offense again had BIG trouble running the ball. UMass had only 49 yards rushing and most of that was Wegzyn scrambling. That's 1.4 yards a carry. Buffalo racked up 8 sacks and during the last two offensive series by UMass, we were unable to block a three-man rush...

The sequence that turned everything around was when Wegzyn threw that INT in the third quarter. The UMass defense responded with an INT of their own, but the offense went 3-and-out followed by the punt block for the touchdown. After that, it was all Buffalo.

Beautiful day though. Even after subtracting 3,000 for the bands UMass had over 9,000 for a November game.

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UMass write-up with note, quotes and box score here.

Matty V. says again, UMass was again playing with a makeshift offensive line. That probably explains the running game futility.

Boston.com says UMass loses to Buffalo.

The Worcester Telegram said UMass collapses.

The Buffalo News said Bulls QB Licata leads Buffalo to the win.

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Results for all the MAC games yesterday.

Western Michigan fired HC Bill Cubit.

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Misery-loves-company Dept:

#1 Kansas State lost.

#2 Oregon lost.

Boston College lost.

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