Monday, October 26, 2020

UMass Football News--October 26th, 2020

 UMass A.D. Ryan Bamford relates the Minutemen have had 4 positives out of 4,223 tests.

One thing about this I don't understand. Why do the UMass players have to take a week off practice after a road game? I can understand them quarantining from the rest of the campus population, but from each other? They were already together at the game and the trip home.

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The 2020 version of the UMass Football record book is available on the UMass website. Since the NCAA banned press guides (another awesome decision by the NCAA), I've been taking the .pdf to Staples and printing it out. 2019 was a year to forget, but the new record book has Isaiah Rogers records and more.

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The 247Sports UMass recruiting page has the latest ratings for the Minutmen's 2021 recruits. UMass is currently ranked #101 (about in the middle of the Group-of-Five). The Minutemen should be signing five or so additional recruits. Twelve of the current 16 recruits are rated three-stars. 

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Liberty remained undefeated in a 56-35 win over Southern Mississippi.

Marshall remained undefeated and moved in the AP Top 25.

Army moved to 6-1 with a blowout win over Mercer. Army also accepted a bid to the Independence Bowl.

Undefeated Coastal Carolina held Georgia Southern's offense to 218 total yards

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