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Matty Vautour reports mistakes at South Carolina will haunt the Minutemen. He's right. UMass could have won that game. The Minutemen played perhaps their best game of the season Saturday. They moved the ball all game against the Gamecocks defense. Clearly UMass had it's best balance on offense this season. They ran the ball effectively and that always helps. I think the UMass offensive line is coming together.
The defense too held their own on the line of scrimmage. Except for the first series, the defense defended the run game all afternoon. And remember the Gamecocks had great field position all day.
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The State's Dave Cloninger says the UMass defense "couldn't stop warm butter sliding down a knife". It's always nice to be a gracious winner.
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No Vegas line on UMass' game with Wagner. Keepers College Football rankings has UMass by 8 points+ (.pdf download). At 1-7 Keeper has UMass at #125 (another .pdf download).
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A British sports writer interviews Victor Cruz.
Tajae Sharpe caught four balls for 59 yards in Tennessee's loss to Colts.
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Space.com reports on UMass getting a grant to install a new state-of-the-art imaging system for the LMT.
More info on the TolTEC camera. Congrats to the UMass astronomy team. They're doing exciting work.
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