Sunday, November 26, 2017

UMass Football News--November 26th, 2017

Sorry no post yesterday, family emergency.

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I was surfing on Comcast Sports Friday evening had it turned out they had the FIU-Western Kentucky game.

The Panthers dominated Western Kentucky 41-17. It was actually worse than that because FIU had pick-six negated by a very questionable roughing the passer call. Western Kentucky, you remember has a high-octane offense. FIU had five sacks and held WKU to 46 yards rushing. They had pressure on WKU's QB all game.

The C-USA announcers were raving about FIU QB Alex McGough who went 17-26 227 1 TD. McGough has been close to 70% completion rate over his last four games. He repeatedly ran out of WKU pressure. McGough did all this without his top-two receivers. He completed at least one pass to ten different FIU receivers.

The game featured this amazin' fake punt by Western Kentucky.


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BYU dominated Hawaii 30-20. Note the Cougars rushed for 285 yards against Hawaii. BYU's rushing total for their last three games was UNLV 263, UMass 46, Hawaii 285.

Coastal Carolina had a BYE

Old Dominion's bowl hopes were crushed by Middle Tennessee State 41-10.

Temple, on the other hand, became bowl eligible with a 43-22 win over Tulsa.

Vanderbilt beat Tennessee. This was the first time since the SEC began in 1933 that the Vols went 0-8 in league play.

Ohio was upset by Buffalo 31-24.

South Florida lost to unbeaten UCF 49-42.

Georgia Southern won their second in a row defeating Louisiana Lafayette 34-24.

In the first round of the FCS playoffs, two of the three CAA teams advanced. New Hampshire beat Central Connecticut and Stony Brook beat Lehigh. Elon lost to Furman.