UMass Football News--October 31st, 2018

Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" has some news and notes.

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Marquis young had a great game against UConn. The old saw is "you run to win",--- especially in the fourth quarter. So far this year Young has gone 105-547 5 TD's. That puts him fifth all-time in rushing yards (3387) behind Gary Pearson (3859). His 636 career rushing attempts also has him fifth behind Pearson who had 808. Young's 25 career TD's have him tied for seventh with Tony Nelson.

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The UMass Football Twitter feed has a post on Joe Previte who went from walk-on to starter on the defensive line. As of this week, Previte has gone 9-9 GP-GS 7 UT 20 AT 27 TT 4.0 TFL and 0.5-4 SACKS.

Info on the Burlsworth Trophy is here.

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The Daily Collegian reports UMass prepares for their final game of 2018 in McGuirk.

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BYU fans will get to see the UMass-BYU game on BYU TV.

UMass stays at #10 in a power ranking of BYU's opponents.

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Meanwhile, the Liberty Flames take notice of Ross Comis.

An open week has given some injured Flames players a chance to heal.

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The UConn Daily Campus discusses if the loss to UMass was the worst loss of the season for the Huskies.

Randy Edsall defends the state of the UConn program.

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UMass Football News--October 30th, 2018

 UMass defensive line coach Dave Wissman retires for medical reasons. Graduate assistant Valerian Ume-Ezeoke will be the interim coach.

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UMass RB Bilal Ally has left the program. This leaves the Minutemen really thin at running back...

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Josh Wallfish has a post on Wissman's retirement and Whipple's comments on the four players who left the program.

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Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" recaps the UMass-UConn game.

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The Deseret News says BYU wants true freshman Zac Wilson cut it loose.

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Georgia is a double-digit favorite over surprising Kentucky.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Khalique Washington

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Khalique Washington, a 6-5 290 pound JUCO OT from Dodge City C.C. has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

247Sports page here.

Hudl.com has video.

This article covers Washington's HS career and his signing with Dodge City.

Ranked the #21 JUCO offensive lineman.

Washington has offers from Kansas, Kentucky, UAB and Southern Mississippi.

UMass Footbal News--October 29th, 2018

UMass opens a three point favorite over Liberty.

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The UConn Blog has an image gallery from the Minutemen-Huskies game.

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The Hartford Courant has the good, the bad and the ugly from Uconn's loss to UMass.

The Courant also reports Randy Edsall said the Huskies lack player leadership.

The UConn Daily Campus says the Huskies gave the game away.

The UConn Blog looks at the Huskies remaining schedule.

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A Liberty DB is arrested, charged and dismissed from the team.

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Virginia business.com has a post on the $32 million renovation of Liberty's stadium.

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On a bye week before the UMass game, Liberty eyes a bowl bid.

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BYU only scored six points against Northern Illinois Saturday and the Cougar's Twitter fans were not pleased.

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UMass Football News--October 28th, 2018

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Nice win for the Minutemen yesterday. UConn is a bad team but beating a bad team is infinitely better than losing to a bad team.

The UMass defense played another good game. After giving up an easy opening drive, the defense held the Huskies to 10 points for the rest of the game. They added two fourth-down stops and sealed the win when Lee Moses picked off Pindell's pass with about three minutes to go in the game.

The UMass offense rang up 444 yards, which included 197 yards rushing. The Minutemen had 20 first downs to UConn's eleven. The two-score comeback was the first time in FBS that the Minutemen had done that.

The Minutemen wanted it more and it showed. Good work by everyone!

Geeze guys, it's a lot more fun doing the blog after a victory.

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Josh Wallfish said UMass rallies past UConn behind a strong offensive line.

He also reports UMass overcame adversity to win at UConn. Josh mentions the sad news UMass QB Andrew Ford's career at UMass is over with a torn ACL.

Quote about Ford from the article:

"Ford finishes his career in the top three of several categories in the UMass record books. His 560 completions are third most in school history, one shy of Todd Bankhead’s second-place mark. He was 63 yards short of Bankhead for second-most passing yards, finishing in third with 6,955 yards. His 57 touchdown passes were second most and his 63 percent completion percentage was second best."

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The Berkshire Eagle says UMass rallies in the fourth quarter to beat UConn.

MassLive reports Marquis Young runs for 148 yards to defeat UConn.

The UMass Daily Collegian said the Minutemen defense turned in their best performance of the season.

The Hartford Courant said it was a wet, depressing day for UConn.

The UConn Blog reports the Huskies collapsed late.

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Duquesne had a bye.

BC beat Miami Friday.

Georgia Southern crushed #25 Appalachian State Thursday night 34-14.

FIU stayed atop the C-USA East with a 38-17 win over Western Kentucky.

USF gave up a program-record 57 points and lost to Houston 57-36.

Coastal Carolina continued their run to a bowl game by defeating Georgia State.

Liberty had a bye.

BYU, starting a true freshman QB, lost 7-6 to Northern Illinois.

Jake From re-established his status as Georgia's QB with  a win over the Gators.

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Game Day UConn--2018

 I've seen a lot of bad weather losses over the years. The 3-0 loss to BU in 1980 in a driving rainstorm. The 19-7 loss to Colgate in a blizzard in 2003. I was at Rhode Island in 2007 when the officials huddled to discuss what they were going to do if one of the goalposts blew over. Let's hope the Minutemen break the string today.

The UMass offense has to produce today. The Huskies, prior to last week, not only had the worst defense in college football, they had the worst defense since 2008. We need to protect the ball. No turnovers like that fumbled punt on the UMass 3 yard line at Colgate. Comis needs to protect the ball.

The UMass defense needs to at least contain Huskie QB David Pindell. He's the entire UConn offense having rushed 115 times for 686 yards and 7 TD's.

This may be the last chance for a Minutemen victory in 2018. Let's grab it.

Go UMass!!!

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Josh Wallfish reports WR Samuel Emilus is making an impact despite a late start.

He also has the UConn editon of his weekly "Inside the Press Box".

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Underdog Dynasty previews today's Minutemen-Huskies and predicts a 38-33 UConn victory.

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The Hartford Courant reports UConn is the underdog despite the injury to UMass QB Andrew Ford.

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Click on Detroit previews the UMass-UConn game and predicts a UConn victory.

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The UConn Blog covers today's game and previews the action.

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The Berkshire Eagle says UMass and UConn are set to renew their ancient rivalry.

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Boston College ran their record to 6-2 as they handled #25 Miami 27-14 last night.

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UMass Football News--October 26th, 2018

UConn finally has their game notes for UMass up.

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Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" previews the UMass-UConn game.

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The UConn Daily Campus reports the Huskies will face old foe UMass on Homecoming Saturday.

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The Minutemen are #10 in the latest BYU opponents power ranking.

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Underdog Dynasty, who apparently did not read the weather report, says take the over in the UMass-UConn game.

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Athlon Sports picks UConn to win straight up.

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In a Thursday night MACtion game, Ohio ran for 411 yards and crushed Ball State 52-14. The Bobcats had 392 against us.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019---Trenton Waggoner

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Trenton Waggoner, a 5-11 165 pound WR from Houston, TX has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

247Sports page here.

Hudl.com has video.

MaxPreps has stats.

UMass is the first FBS offer for Waggoner.

UMass Football News--October 25th, 2018

UMass has their game notes for UConn up.

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News 8 reports UConn is hoping to end their season on a high note.

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UConn WR Keyion Dixon is making an impact for the Huskies on special teams.

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Boston College signs a DT who had a UMass offer.

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A 247Sports writer thinks 6-1 Houston will knock off undefeated USF this weekend.

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Athlon Sports picks UConn over UMass in Saturday's game.

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Coastal Carolina likes all their QB's in their three-deep.

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UMass Football News--October 24th, 2018

Mike Traini of "fight Massachusetts" recaps the Coastal Carolina game.

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The Daily Collegian reports UMass looks to get back in the win column against UConn.

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The UConn Blog (good name 😀) has the Huskies two-deep for the Minutmen game.

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The Sports Chat Place picks UMass to cover the spread against UConn.

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The Hartford Courant reports Randy Edsell hopes the momentum from the USF game carries over to the UMass game.

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The New Haven Register talks about UConn DB Tahj Herring-Wilson's matchup with Andy Isabella.

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UConn adds Maine to their 2020 schedule.

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Speaking of Andy Isabella, the Oakland Press has him as the "Group-of-Five" star.

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The UConn Daily Campus reports the mood of Huskie football is improving.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Shareal Taylor

Shareal Taylor, a 6-3 185 pound Athlete from Sebring, FL has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

MaxPreps page here.

Hudl.com has video.

UMass is the first offer for Taylor.

UMass Football News--October 23rd, 2018

Josh Wallfish has his Week #8 mailbag.

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Las Vegas has UMass -4.5 against UConn.

BYW, the Minutemen are 0-4 against the spread in away games.

The Hartford Courant says there's a silver lining for UConn in playing a lot of freshmen.

Josh Wallfish Tweets that Marquis Young should be ready to go. Andrew Ford is still questionable.

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The News Advance reports Liberty is on a bye week and eyeing a bowl bid.

Liberty also saw the return of one of their top receivers.

The Flames have one of college football's best names in QB Stephen (Buckshot) Calvert.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Mike Ciaffoni

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Mike Ciaffoni, a 6-3 265 pound DT from Sudbury, MA has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

247Sports page here.

Hudl.com has video.

MaxPreps page here.

UMass is the first offer for Ciaffoni. Also drawing interest from BC and Rutgers.

UMass Football News--October 22nd, 2018

Lost in this train wreck season is the fact the new special teams kicker and punter are doing well. Kickers Mike Caggiano (2-3) and Cooper Garcia (3-3) are 5-6 for the season. Zero blocked kicks.

George Georgopoulos has punted 27-1100 40.9 AVE 60 LONG 3 I20 5 50+. Zero blocked. Georgopoulos had a nifty 53 yard punt in the third quarter of the Coastal Carolina game that got the Minutemen out of their own end zone.

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No Las Vegas odds on UMass-UConn as of 6:45 AM this morning.

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The Sports Chat Place looks at the UMass-UConn game. They say the odds are late do to uncertainty of the status of Andrew Ford and Marquis Young.

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The New Haven Register has five takeaways from UConn's loss to USF.

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The Hartford Courant says the current troubles of UConn are due to bad recruiting under Bob Diaco.

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UMass Football News--October 21st, 2018

The UMass defense played their best game of the 2018 season against an FBS team. The Minutemen held Coastal Carolina to 24 points a season low. They also had two takeaways and stopped the Chants for no points after a turnover on a kickoff. Coastal Carolina ground out 279 yards rushing, but did not pop any long run TD's. The UMass defense played well enough to win.

The UMass offense, on the other hand had a terrible game. UMass had 459 yards of offense and only  scored one TD. In addition, I felt the offense was hindered by some poor play calling. I did not like the redzone play calls on both of the Minutemen's early field goals. On the CCU seven we get a false start moving the ball to the eleven. We call a QB draw for the slow-footed Ford for no gain. On the next play, Ford has green grass in front of him, but passes to Jordan to the CCU four. Another pass on third down to Isabella is incomplete.

On the second field goal, we're on the CCU eleven and get a false start moving us to the 16. Ford completes a pass to Emilus to the 8. Ford then rushes for -2, then is sacked for -12.

We did not give the ball to the RB once in those series and Fredericks averaged 10 yards/carry (7-78 with one 8 yard loss).

In the fourth quarter with UMass down two scores and eight minutes to play, UMass passes up a field goal by Cooper (who was perfect for the day) and goes for it on fourth-and-sixteen and ended up with a -21 yards sack.

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UMass write-up here.

Chants write-up here.

Josh Wallfish said the offense fell flat.

Josh also reports Andy Isabella continues to re-write the record books.

Myrtle Beach Online said three QB's led the Chants to victory.

Fox Sports reported true freshman Fred Payton led the Coastal Carolina comeback.

The Daily Collegian said big plays and Coastal Carolina's running game resulted in a UMass loss.

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Duquesne came from behind to defeat St. Francis 27-20.

Georgia Southern ran their record to 6-1 by dominating New Mexico State 48-31.

FIU stayed unbeaten in C-USA by defeating Rice 36-17.

Charlotte turned the ball over and lost to Middle Tennessee 21-13.

Ohio blew out Bowling Green 49-14.

UConn played the best game of their season against USF but lost 38-30.

Liberty beat Idaho State 48-41 in their Homecoming game.

BYU had a bye.

Georgia had a bye.

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Game Day Coastal Carolina--October 20th 2018

Alright, Coastal Carolina is a solid Group-of-Five team. Several pundits picked them a a bowl team before the season started. The Chants feature a running game and a dual-threat QB, both of whom we have struggled mightily against this year. The UMass offense needs to show up. This is a game we need to win 44-42. It would help if the Minutemen could score early instead of playing from behind. Coastal Carolina has a fairly average defense. UMass has scored on everyone we've played. We need to do a lot of it today.

A win would be a big morale boost for the second half of the season. If UMass is going to salvage the season, it needs to start today.

Go UMass!

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Josh Wallfish reports Whipple senior and Whipple junior balance each other out on the sidelines.

Josh also has his mailbag for Week #8.

Josh also chats with Myrtle Beach writer Alan Blondin about today's game with Coastal Carolina.

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Myrtle Beach online has everything you need to know about today's UMass-Coastal Carolina game.

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The Berkshire Eagle reports after a week of rest UMass is ready to take on the Chants.

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The New Haven Register previews today's UConn-USF game.

The Hartford Courant also covers UConn's game with undefeated USF.

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UMass Football News--October 19th, 2018

Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" previews the UMass-Coastal Carolina game.

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UMass announces a 10 year deal with Adidas. The deal includes increased availability of replica jerseys and other fan apparel. I think there is going to be a lot of demand for UMass hockey and basketball stuff in the near future.

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HERO Sports previews the Minutemen-Chants game.

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The first Kennett Band Day was a success. The event is modeled after the UMMB Band Day. This year's Band Day will be November 11th (Veteran's Day) at Gillette.

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Off Tackle Empire recommends watching UMass-Coastal Carolina for the offense.

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Myrtle Beach Online discusses Coastal Carolina's chances for a bowl game. It looks like the Chants will have senior dual-threat QB Kilton Anderson back after missing two games with a high ankle sprain.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Kam Brinson

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Kam Brinson, a 5-11 180 pound athlete from Augusta, GA has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

MaxPreps has stats.

Hudl.com has video.

This article features Brinson.

Brinson has offers from Navy and Charleston Southern.

UMass Football News--October 19th, 2018

Coastal Carolina's HC Joe Moglia has his press conference on the UMass game.

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A Herald Extra writer power ranks BYU's opponents and has UMass up to #11.

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Former Coastal Carolina star Josh Norman, now playing for the the Redskins, donates $50,000 to help hurricane Florence's victims.

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Rhode Island is 4-2 and ranked #24 in the FCS coaches poll. When was the last time the Rams were in the FCS Top-25? The 1980's?

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UMass Football News--October 17th, 2018

UMass has its game notes for Coastal Carolina up.

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Josh Wallfish reports UMass returns from a bye week refreshed. He says the status of Marquis Young and Michael Nesmith is uncertain until later in the week.

He also says Jesse Britt, Brian Roberts and Patrick Volcy have left the team. Britt probably would have been a starter in 2019.

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The Daily Collegian says UMass kicks off the second half of the season with a home game against Coastal Carolina.

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UMass is #20 in CBS Sport Bottom-25 this week.

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The Oracle says there should be no excuses for USF against UConn this week.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Justin Franklin

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Justin Franklin, a 5-9 155 pound DB from Douglasville, GA has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

Hudl.com has video.

MaxPreps has stats.

Franklin also has an offer from FAU.

UMass Football News--October 16th, 2018

UMass will award an attending student one year's free tuition if the Minutemen return a kickoff for a TD in Saturday's game.

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USA Today has UMass ranked #101 ahead of Coastal Carolina, Liberty and UConn.

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The UMass Football Twitter feed has the Minutemen kicking off against UConn at Noon at East Hartford, CT. This a great time for UMass fans. Mrs Blog and I will make the drive down to Rentschler Field as long as the weather isn't completely terrible. Hope to see a bunch of UMass fans there. Our last trip to East Hartford was the game where Don Brown's defense put a historic beatdown on Molnar's UMass offense.

UConn LB Eli Thomas suffered a stroke Wednesday.

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Winners and Whines previews the Minutemen-Chants game and predicts a Coastal Carolina victory.

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The Lawless Republic says BYU's future was on display against Hawaii.

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Last Saturday Lehigh celebrated their 1998 Patriot League championship team that lost to UMass in the playoffs.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Richard Coffey

Richard Coffey, a 5-11 175 pound DB from Baldwin, FL has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass

MaxPreps page here.

Hudl.com has video.

UMass is Coffey's first FBS offer.

UMass Football News--October 15th, 2018

Georgia fell to #8 in the AP poll and #6 in the Coach's. South Florida moved to #21 in the AP and #20 in the coach's poll despite their narrow victory. Both polls here.

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UMass opened as a 3.5 point favorite over Coastal Carolina. UConn is a 31 point underdog to South Florida.

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The Sports Chat Place previews the UMass -Coastal Carolina game.

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The UConn Blog recaps the results for the Huskies opponents in week #7.

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UMass Football News--October 14th, 2018

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My News 13 has a post on UMass legend Rene Ingolia's being a police detective during the week and an ESPN announcer on weekends.

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In a game I watched, Duquesne ran over Robert Morris 48-24.

Boston College, playing without injured A.J. Dillon, defeated Louisville 38-20.

Georgia Southern edged Texas state 15-13.

Charlotte blasted Western Kentucky 40-14 to run their record to 3-3 overall and 2-1 in Conference USA,

Ohio lost to Northern Illinois 24-21.

Louisiana Monroe ran all over favored Coastal Carolina 45-20. The Chants were without starting QB Kilton Anderson. The article says he should be available for the UMass game.

UConn had a bye

Liberty surprised Neal Brown's 5-1 Trojans 22-16. Troy was playing without their starting QB Kaleb Barker and that slowed Troy's usually high-powered offense.

BYU found its offense in a 49-23 win over Hawaii.

The Washington Post it was a nightmare in Death Valley for Georgia.

Quote from the above article "a big, loud subset of 102,321 onlookers serenades the losing visitor with a heartwarming chant about how that visitor ought to perform a carnal act upon the cherished tiger mascot."

Oh, if you missed it, Nebraska blew a 10-point lead and fell to 0-6 for the first time in its program history.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Bryquice Brown

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Bryquice Brown, a 6-0 180 pound DB from Lithia Springs, GA has Tweeted he's received an offer from UMass.

MaxPreps page here.

Hudl.com has video.

UMass is the first offer for Brown

UMass Football News--October 13th, 2018

Boy was I wrong. I thought USF would run over Tulsa last night. The Bulls escaped with a 25-24 win after a field goal with two seconds left. USF kept the Tulsa offense in check, but Tulsa was able to contain USF's offense most of the game.

Tulsa pressured Blake Barnett most of the game. Under pressure, he dropped two snaps, threw one INT and was missing his receivers by ten yards.

The big and athletic Tulsa linebacking corps had a lot to do with rattling USF's offense. The starting Tulsa LB's are: Diamon Cooper 6-2 237, Cooper Edmiston 6-3 237 and Zaven Collins 6-4 250.

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Video of Jordan Cronkite talking about his big night against UMass.

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Athlon Sports previews the second half of BYU's season.

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Myrtle Beach Online has all you need to know about today's Coastal Carolina-Louisiana Monroe game.

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UMass Football Recruiting 2019--Koby Perry

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Kobe Perry, a 6-1 180 pound JUCO safety will visit UMass on November 3rd. He has a UMass offer.

247Sports page here.

Hudl.com has mid-season video.

This article features Perry.

Perry has nine total offers including FBS schools Bowling Green, South Alabama, UTEP and Middle Tennessee state.

UMass Football News--October 12th, 2018

Josh Walfish has grading the 2018 Minutemen during the off week.

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The UMMB gets lots of mentions in this story by the Conway Daily Sun.

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Sports writers get paid to crank out copy every week. Sometimes it's difficult to see their reasoning. Six CBS sports writers give a lot of love to 1-4 Tulsa against undefeated USF. Tulsa's only win was an 11 point victory over FCS Central Arkansas.

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Hero sports previews the Coastal Carolina--Louisiana Monroe game.

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UConn has a player hospitalized for an undisclosed reason.

Speaking of UConn, the Hartford Courant has the good, the bad and the ugly at the midpoint of the Huskies season.

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OT, but UMass has made the final three for Wilden Leveque, who's the #64 power forward in the nation. He'll announce his choice today.

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UMass Football News--October 11th, 2018

The Herald Extra power ranks BYU's opponents and has UMass last, three notches below McNeese State.

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The Hartford Courant power ranks the AAC and has UConn last and USF as #2.

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Athlon Sports looks at the second half of Georgia's schedule including the game against the Minutemen.

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Coastal Carolina's coach Joe Moglia had his weekly press conference yesterday.

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Speaking of Coastal Carolina, the Chants are currently 3rd in the Sun Belt Conference in rushing averaging 242 yards/game. They're 9th in passing offense with 175.6 yards/game. but Coastal Carolina has thrown 10 YD's giving them the conference's second highest pass efficiency rating of 184.5. Sun Belt stats here.

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UMass Football News--October 10th, 2018

Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" recaps the USF game.

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UMass is #18 in CBS Sports Bottom 25, but it's UConn that's making history.

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The News Herald has a post that mentions Andy Isabella's awesome season.

All the links below go to the same NCAA national rankings page. Choose the appropriate category in the drop down tab.

Speaking of Isabella, he's currently 3rd in the nation in receiving yards per game.

He's #1 in receiving yards.

And 5th, in receptions per game.

Isabella currently has 119 career receptions. He needs five to pass Jason Peebler (2001-2004) for 10th place all-time.

He has 2,667 career receiving yards. That makes him 3rd on the all-time list behind Adrian Zullo (1998-2002) who has 2,892.

Isabella has 25 career TD's, two behind Jason Peebler who has 27. Adrian Zullo leads the career TD list with 32.

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Sports Chat Place previews this Saturday's Coastal Carolina-Louisiana Monroe game.

The Chants are six point favorites over Louisiana-Monroe.

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UMass Football News--October 9th, 2018

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 This video will make you smile: Marken Michael learns to make peach cobbler from Stamps teammate Ja'Gared Davis. Be sure to watch the last five seconds.

Special thanks to the blog reader who sent me the link.

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Josh Walfish reports the Minutemen defense still thinks they can get it done.

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A Tampa Bay Observer write still does not think the Bulls belong in the Top-25.

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The Hartford Courant looks ahead to the AAC opponents on UConn's schedule. The Huskies get the USF Bulls next.

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CBS Sports looks at the Top-25 including Georgia and USF. Georgia's next four opponents are all ranked.

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UMass Football News--October 8th, 2018.

Josh Walfish has a story about James Ihedigbo being inducted into the UMass Hall-of-Fame.

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Georgia remains at #2 and USF moves to #23 in both the AP and Coaches top-25 poll.

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The UMass Daily Collegian says USF rang up 58 points on the Minutemen.

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The UConn Blog looks at the Huskies opponents after Saturday's games. Note that UConn gave up 630 yards of offense to Memphis.

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Yahoo Sports looks at the eleven undefeated teams in college football including Georgia and USF.

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Myrtle Beach Online has a long article about Coastal Carolina's head coach Joe Moglia.

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UMass Football News--October 7th, 2018

Hey, we were in that game. We lost because we turned the ball over. USF had three TD's directly related to turnovers. We also fumbled a snap when we were driving. The defense added a interception and an epic goal-line stand.Except for the turnovers, the Minutemen were the equal of undefeated USF. UMass had 485 yards of offense and 42 points. UMass played with a lot of energy and intensity.

We're going to win some games after the bye week and UMass has a chance against BYU.

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UMass write-up here.

USF write-up here.

Josh Walfish said big plays led the Bulls past UMass.

Josh also reports Jordan Cronkite ran past the Minutemen.

The Tampa Bay Times said it was a record day for Cronkite.

The Berkshire Eagle reports UMass fought hard but ended up falling to USF.

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Duquesne lost to Bryant 21-20. It was a tough week for the Dukes after RB Marquis Brown committed suicide by jumping from a 16-floor window.

Boston College lost to N.C. State 23-20 in a game that was not as close as the score indicates.

Georgia Southern ran over Southern Alabama 48-13.

Charlotte had a bye.

Ohio came from behind to edge Kent State 27-26.

Coastal Carolina had a bye.

UConn was blasted by Memphis 55-14.

Liberty lost a shoot-out to New Mexico State 49-41.

Utah State dominated BYU 45-20.

Georgia continued to roll with a 41-13 win over Vanderbilt.

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Game Day USF---2018

OK tall order today. Maybe the events of the last week will draw the team together. USF is coming off a bye week and should be rested. Last year the Minutemen upset Appalachian State at McGuirk. The Mountaineers ended up 9-4 and blew out Toledo in the Dollar General Bowl.

UMass has shown it can score points. Let's see what the defense can do today. East Carolina (who lost to a FCS team) held the Bulls to 20 points. Let's beat 'em 44-42.

It's going to be beautiful Autumn day in New England. I'll be there supporting the team.

Go UMass!!!

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Josh Walfish reports UMass is focused on USF.

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Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" has five questions with Bulls247.

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The Berkshire Eagle says UMass welcomes undefeated USF.

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Maddox Sports thinks the Bulls will beat the spread.

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The Daily Stampede looks at the numbers in the Bulls-Minutemen matchup.

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UMass Football News--October 5th, 2018

The Minutemen will wear the script UMass helmet decal this week. The decal was actually designed by UMass coaches, not by a marketing team.

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Underdog Dynasty previews the UMass-USF game.

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The Tampa Bay Times has a podcast about local games including USF at UMass.

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Off Tackle Empire has a list of this week's college football games to watch including the Bulls-Minutemen.

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A Bleacher Report writer picks USF over UMass in a close game 34-29.

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ESPN's Finebaum thinks Georgia is not a lock for the playoffs.

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UConn's Randy Edsell has some unique contract incentives.

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UMass Football News--October 4th, 2018

Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" previews the USF game.

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The Tampa Bay Times reports the Bulls athletic department has been able to arrange local TV coverage of the USF-UMass game.

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The Oracle reports USF is healthy after a bye week and ready for UMass.

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The Athens Register has another recap of the Ohio-UMass game.

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Meanwhile, UConn is a 33.5 underdog to Memphis.

UConn will use the new four-game redshirt rule to redshirt 15 freshmen who have played in 2018.

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Boston College is a four point underdog at North Carolina State.

BC running back A.J. Dillon is a game-time decision after being injured at Temple.

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UMass Football News--October 3rd, 2018

UMass has their game notes for USF up.

So do the USF Bulls.

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USF Coach Charlie Brown says the Bulls need to win on first down against the Minutemen.

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Flo Football reports undefeated USF is off a bye week and ready to travel to UMass.

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The Tampa Bay times previews the Minutemen.

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UMass A.D. consulted with the UMass leadership before suspending Coach Whipple.

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The Post looks at what went right and wrong with the Bobcats against the Minutemen.

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Liberty loses a starting receiver for at least four weeks.

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UMass Football News--October 2nd, 2018

Vegas Insider has USF as a 14 point favorite. The over and under is 70.5. USF could do that all by themselves.

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Andrew Ford was the 3rd ranked QB in the nation Saturday.

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The loss to Ohio pushed UMass to #112 in the CBS Sports rankings.

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Kirk & Callahan disagree on Coach Whipple's suspension.

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Cougar Insider projects the results of BYU's remaining schedule.

Speaking of BYU, their 35-7 loss to Washington knocked the Cougars out of the weekly Top-25.

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USF targets 2019 for starting their new football center.

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UMass Football News--October 1st, 2018

Coach Whipple is suspended for a week. UMass athletic dept announcement.

Josh Walfish reports on the suspension.

The Athens Messenger covers Whipple's post game press conference.

There are more articles, but basically everyone is repeating the UMass press release.

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Mike Traini recaps the Ohio game.

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USF is just outside of the AP Top-25 poll.

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Winners and Whiners looks at the Bulls-Minutemen matchup.

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East Carolina held USF's high powered offense to under 300 yards Saturday. The Daily Stampede shows how they did it.

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