Georgia Southern announcement here.
MassLive has a post on the Georgia Southern game.
The Gazette also has a story on the game.
Mike Traini of "Fight Massachusetts" has a story on UMass playing Georgia Southern.
The Eagles are 2-1 in their 2020 season. All their games have been close with a one-point win over Campbell and a 2-point loss to #19 Louisiana.
This game is good news for the Minutemen football program. It avoids a entire year of no football. It gets UMass back in sync with the rest of FBS football. Except for UConn, a spring season would have been difficult time to find opponents. Whatever the win-loss ration turns out to be in 2020, playing football with be good for program development and recruiting.
A cut-and-past from a UMass athletics newsletter I received yesterday afternoon from A.D. Ryan Bamford.
"On a positive note, on Monday, September 21, we announced that our football team would return to play this fall and will open the season on Saturday, October 17 at Georgia Southern (4 p.m. ET on ESPNU). Given the success of extremely stringent health protocols and rigorous testing this fall, we felt that a reversal of our August 11 department decision to postpone this season was in the best interest of our program. Since our announcement, three more FBS conferences have reversed course, as well, and now all but a handful of the 130 FBS teams will be playing this fall. Stay tuned for future announcements of additional games as we move through October [my italics]."
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Mike Moran of the Gazette also has a post on Larnel Coleman and Josh Wallace using experience to help teammates.
Coleman praises new OL players Max Longman, Johnny Hassard and Reggie Marks III.
Wallace remarks on new Minutemen DB's Te-Rai Powell, Tristan Armstrong and Cody Jones.
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