Wednesday, October 22, 2025

UMass Football News--October 22nd, 2025

 Central Michigan's Jordan Kwiatkowski earns the MAC Defensive Player-of-the-Week.

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The Minuteman Command's Mike and Rene break down  the final minute of the Buffalo game

Enough already with the laments about the end of the Buffalo game. The important takeaway was that we were good enough to nearly beat one of the MAC's top teams. We were not even competitive earlier. The Buffalo game showed we can and should win some games.

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UMass and UCF reschedule their 2026 game to 2029 

This makes next year's schedule easier. UCF plays in the Big Twelve. They are 4-3 in 2025 and pounded West Virginia 45-13 in their last game.

So the 2026 UMass schedule looks like:

     09/05 - at Rutgers
    09/12 - Sacred Heart
    10/24 - at UConn
    11/28 - at Hawaii

That's an attractive schedule. Only one Power Five team and Rutgers is not Iowa or Missouri. Hawaii is 6-2 in the Mountain West and should be in our wheelhouse as a Group-of-Five team.

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 Former UMass great Andy Isabella is back with the program working with the wide receivers.

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