Slow football news day on the intertubes so far.
Let's look at the MAC's OOC schedules. As everyone knows, it takes six wins to be bowl eligible (although how that'll work with 42 bowl games in 2016 I don't know). A winless or 1 win OOC result makes a winning conference record a necessity. My predicted results:
Akron- 1-3 or 2-2
@ Oklahoma
Pittsburgh (Akron beat Pitt last year 20-10)
Savannah State
@ UL Lafayette (9-3 in 2014)
Bowling Green 1-3 (win over Purdue)
Tennessee (neutral site)
@ Maryland
Memphis (10-3 in 2014)
@ Purdue
Buffalo 2-2
Albany
@Penn State
@ Florida Atlantic
Nevada (7-6 in 2014)
Kent State 1-3
@ Illinois
Delaware State
@ Minnesota
Marshall
Miami (Ohio) 1-3
Presbyterian (Miami lost to 9-4 FCS Eastern Kentucky in 2014)
@ Wisconsin
Cincinnati
@ Western Kentucky
Ohio 2-2
@Idaho
Marshall
SE Louisiana (FCS 9-4 in 2014)
@ Minnesota
UMass (2-2 it's going to take an upset of Colorado or Temple)
@Colorado
Temple
@Notre Dame
Florida International
Ball State 2-2
VMI
@Texas A&M
@ Northwestern
Georgia State (1-11 in 2014)
Central Michigan 1-3
Oklahoma State
Monmouth
@Syracuse (beat CMU 40-3 in 2014)
@ Michigan State
Eastern Michigan 0-4
Old Dominion
@Wyoming
Army
@LSU
Northern Illinois 2-2 (could the Huskies beat BC?)
UNLV
Murray State
@Ohio State
@ Boston College
Toledo 2-2 (with a win over Iowa State)
Stony Brook
@ Arkansas
Iowa State
Arkansas State
Western Michigan 1-3
Michigan State
@ Georgia Southern (Sun Belt champ in 2014)
Murray State
@ Ohio State
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Today's U says Matt Rhule has built Temple into a possible contender.
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Brian Kelley says only one or two of his players would be admitted to Notre Dame if they weren't athletes.
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An early signing period could be coming soon.
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