Friday before FIU--September 16th, 2016

The UMass website has gameday FIU informantion up.

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Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" previews tomorrow's game against FIU.

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Matty Vautour has a post on today's Florida-Louisville game. Memo to A.D. Bamford: one team not to match us up with is Louisville. I watched them play Charlotte last week and it was 56-0 at the half. Up 49-0 with two minutes to play in the half, the Cardinals went into their two-minute drill to score again..

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FIU Football interviews Matty Vautour on Saturday's game.

An FIU writer previews the Panthers-Minutemen game.

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The Daily Herald power ranks BYU's opponents after the second week of the season and has UMass at #12, behind FCS SUU.

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USA Today looks at 0-2 teams that have a chance to get their first victory tomorrow. Two MAC teams lost to FCS teams last week. Miami lost to Eastern Illinois. The shocker was Kent State lost to North Carolina A&T, which is a bottom-of-the-barrel FCS squad.

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When Miami plays at Appalachian State this Saturday, it is the result of a long chain of events in which, UMass was deeply involved.

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The Tennessean asks if Tajae Sharpe is a burgeoning star.

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CBS Local New York says overcoming long odds is what Victor Cruz does.

Newsday report with the first salsa out of the way, Cruz can work on steady improvement.

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