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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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