UMass Football News--September 22nd, 2026

Coach Harasymiak 's Sacramento State week press conference.

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UMass has it's game notes for Sacramento State up. 

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 UMass' next home game against Eastern Michigan will kickoff at 3;30 pm.

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 UMass punter Edward Phillipson was named to the Ray Guy Ray's Eight award for his performance last Saturday.

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UMass continues to rake in MAC conference Player-of-the-Week awards. DE William Depaepe and Derek Morris were named defensive and special teams players-of-the-week by the MAC 

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The Minuteman Command has a post about how not losing all the time has helped UMass recruiting. 

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The MAC blog "By-the-Belt" has it's Monday Morning Musings.

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UConn's Daily Campus has UMass included in a story about the most intriguing story lines in college football.

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ESPN has UMass #116 in it's weekly power rankings and has the Minutemen with a 95.9% chance of making 6 wins in 2026.  Holy crap!

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UMass Football News--September 21st, 2026

 

The Minuteman Command reports UMass responded to their first "storm" of the season.

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Sports Illustrated projects UMass vs Delaware in the Myrtle Beach Bowl. That would be a fun reunion with the Blue Hens.

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By-the-Belt reports UMass receives a couple of votes is the Top-25 Coaches Poll.

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USA Today has the complete Coaches Poll. Western Michigan is under rated.

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ESPN ranks the 35 unbeaten teams. 

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UMass opens -6 against Sacramento State.

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Press Break wonders if the world is ready for a 4-0 UMass? 

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UMass Football Blog News

 Mrs Blog and I will be traveling for the next four days. As usual, I'll try to keep the blog going, but if for some reason I go dark, I'll be back up on Thursday.

Go UMass.

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UMass Football News--September 20th, 2026

 

Well UMass' first half offensive stutters masked what was the finest defensive performance Minuteman fans have seen for some time.

Stonehill had 491 yards of offense against New Hampshire and was held by UMass to 161 total yards. Stonehill QB Jack threw for 390 yards against the Wildcats had only 134 against the Minutemen. UMass allowed only 27 yards of rushing offense and that should keep the Minutemen in the top-10 nationally in rushing defense. 

In addition UMass had 5 TFL, 2 SACKS, 1 INT and 2 FF. An outstanding effort.

On offense, UMass had a slow first half, but ended up scoring 36 points, one point off their season average.

3-0!

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UMass write-up here. 

Stonehill's write-up here. 

The Minuteman Command says UMass took care of Stonehill.

CBS Sports reports UMass is 3-0 for the first time in FBS. 

The Greenfield Recorder says T.Y. Harding propels UMass past Stonehill.  

The Daily Collegian says UMass improves to 3-0.

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Rutger gave it a valiant effort but fell to #11 USC.  

Sacred Heart fell to Elon 21-24.

 Sacramento State lost to  North Dakota State.

Eastern Michigan was pounded by Wisconsin 54-10. 

Miami (Ohio) was edged by Cincinnati 35-31.

Buffalo lost to #14 Penn State 55-13. 

UConn pasted Southern Mississippi 48-20. 

Ball State got run over by Liberty 51-15.

Toledo beat Temple in overtime.

Akron lost to Big10 Minnesota 41-7. 

Bowling Green got crushed by Iowa 55-7.

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Game Day--Stonehill 2026

 The Minuteman Command has "know your opponent --StoneHill".

The Skyhawks are a decent FCS team with an outstanding QB. Jack O'Connell is a fifth-year senior from North Andover, MA. In Stonehill's last game he accounted for 433 yards of offense and 4 TD's all by himself.

I'm sure controlling O'Connell will be a top priority for the Minutemen. Stonehill's defense is only average (they gave up 5.5 yards/rush against New Haven). The best defense against O'Connell is having him on the sidelines watching the UMass offense.

The projected return of RB Jordan Washington for UMass should make a good Minuteman offense even better. I'm excited to watch him run.

This is a game UMass should win. Today they have to go out and do it.

I'll be there cheering for the Minutemen.

Go UMass!

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UMass will have some coveted recruits visiting for the game.

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The MAC blog "By-the-Belt" has UMass ranked fourth in their Week #3 power rankings. 

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MAC Reporter Online previews all of today's MAC conference games including UMass-Stonehill.

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Also we should enjoy the beautiful Fall season..

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UMass Football News--September 18th, 2026

 Christian and Rene reunite over at the Flagship podcast.

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CBS News has Pop Watson in their "Top-20" college football quarterbacks.

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A Wisconsin blog reports the Badgers may be replacing Colorado State with UMass in the 2027 season.  The Minutemen's 2027 schedule is already filled with Stony Brook, @Indiana, @Temple and UConn, so one of those would have to go.

Visiting Camp Randall would be fun! 

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The MAC Blog By-the-Belt previews the UMass-Stonehill game and predicts UMass 42 Stonehill 14.

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The Athletic reports UMass fans are giddy.

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The Daily Collegian says UMass prepares for its second straight FCS opponent.

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UMass game against Sacramento State will start at 6:00 pm local time, so I think that will be 9:00pm EDT..

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UMass Football News--September 17th, 2026

 

Stonehill has their game notes for UMass up.

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The Minuteman Command has a post on the return of Jordan Washington. 

Washington's UMass bio. 

Washington's availability adds another weapon to the UMass offense. The Minutemen are a bad-weather team and one third of the season's games are in November. League championships are won in the cold and dark of that month. This year the last four games of the season are Ball state, @Toledo, Akron and @ Bowling Green. Except for Toledo, three of those games are winnable without being an upset. Run the damm ball.

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ESPN has UMass out of the bottom ten.

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Next week's opponent (and first league game) is Sacramento State. The MAC blog "By-the-Belt" looks at Sacramento State's Saturday game with North Dakota State.

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Will Toledo be a solid favorite over UMass in November? Saturday's game between the Rockets and Temple should be informative.  

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UMass Football News--September 16th, 2026

The Minuteman Command says as UMass keeps winning, Coach Harasymiak keeps raising the standard.

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 T.Y. Harding is one of UMass' student ahtletes-of-the-week.

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The MAC Conference is moving to a nine-game conference slate in 2027. 

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The Greenfield Recorder reports UMass to host second straight FCS opponent.

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ESPN's Week #2 projected bowl games has UMass vs Old Dominion in the Puerto Rico Bowl. 

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UMass is -33.5 against the Stonehill Skyhawks in Vegas odds.

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 T.Y. Harding is the Comeback player-of-the-week.

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The Athletic has a post about Boston College's life at the bottom of college football's spending leaderboard.

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