Friday, November 01, 2019

UMass Football News--November 1st, 2019


Enjoy Andy Isabella's 88 yard TD against San Francisco last night.

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CBS Sports previews the Libery-UMass game.

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In its last four games of 2019 UMass faces two Power Five teams (Northwestern and BYU) plus Army, a team that specializes in rushing (something UMass is particularly bad at defending) and Liberty.

Liberty has a very good offense. The Flames are ranked #65 in FBS in total offense. The Flames are led by Stephen (Buckshot) Calvert. Any QB whose nickname is "Buckshot" has to be pretty good. Calvert has gone 154-255-3, 60.4% 150.5 EFF 2164 YARDS 16 TD's and 27.5 yards/game.

Calvert has NFL-bound 6-4 220 pound WR Antono Gandy-Golden as his primary receiver. The Flames WR smoked the Minutemen defense last year going 9-205 and 2 TD's. This year Gandy-Goldman has gone 48-945, 19.7 AVE , 6 TD's 118.1 yards a game. Note that Gandy-Goldman is closing in on 1,000 yards receiving in only eight games. He's currently #2 in the nation in receiving yards.

Liberty is #105 in total defense. The Flames have also been dealing with some defensive injuries. The Minutemen should be able to score 28 points of so. Unfortunately , Liberty's offense is going to score probably twice that.

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Liberty's game notes for UMass.

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CBS Sports has media notes for Air Force vs Army.

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247Sports has ten things about Northwestern-Indiana.

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