Tuesday--November 26, 2013

Keepers College Football ratings has Ohio a 11.87 point favorite over the Minutemen.

Las Vegas has Ohio by anywhere from 14 1/2 to 17.

Dan Malone comments on the odds.

UMass is 121st of 123 FBS teams in scoring offense. The Minutemen average 10.7 points a game. That's 2 points a game lower than the 12.7 points a game the offense scored in 2012.

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NIU is ranked #14 on the latest BCS poll.

That puts Northern Illinois ahead of Fresno State for a BCS bowl bid.

The Huskies play the 1-10 Western Michigan Broncos tonight at home.

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Central Michigan has two players on the league's player-of-the-week list from last Saturday's waxing of UMass.

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Buffalo's Khalil Mack is a finalist for the Butkus Award.

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More on the UMMB's trip to play at Macy's Thanksgiving parade by the Hampshire Gazette, Greenfield Recorder and Wicked Local Waltham.

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Forty-Two percent of the public (probably male public) would take college football tickets over Thanksgiving dinner.

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UMass hoops returns to the Top-25 after 15 years.

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BTW, James Madison fired Mickey Matthews.

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