Monday, January 04, 2021

UMass Football News --January 4th, 2021

 The Berkshire Eagle has a post on Liam Coen's coaching journey as he is slated to become OC at Kentucky.

Coen's Rams bio.

Kentucky won the recent Taxslayers Orange Bowl over #25 North Carolina State.

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The Eagle also considers the September 4th 2021 reunion between Mark Whipple and UMass.

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The current 2021 Minutemen schedule:

    09/04 - at Pitt
    09/11 - Boston College
    09/18 - Eastern Michigan
    09/25 - at Coastal Carolina
    10/02 - Toledo
    10/09 - UConn
    10/23 - at Florida State
    10/30 - at Liberty
    11/06 - Rhode Island
    11/13 - Maine
    11/20 - at Army
    11/27 - at New Mexico State

This is a difficult schedule for the rebuilding Minutemen. Three Power Five schools: Pitt, BC and Florida State. Coastal Carolina and Liberty are two of the best teams in the Group-of-Five. The Chants went 11-1 and the Flames went 10-1. Both were ranked in the Top-25 in 2020.

UMass should have chances to win with Eastern Michigan (2-4) plus UConn, Rhode Island, Maine and New Mexico State. The always tough Toledo Rockets went 4-2 in a truncated MAC schedule.

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The CAA's format for the 2021 spring season.

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