Tuesday, October 16, 2018

UMass Football News--October 16th, 2018

UMass will award an attending student one year's free tuition if the Minutemen return a kickoff for a TD in Saturday's game.

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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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