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College Football Previews 2025: The MAC
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College Football Previews 2025: The MAC

Our overview of the Mid-American Conference, where Toledo, Miami, and Buffalo look strong.
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Conference previews continue with the MAC. Alex and Richard break down every team in the league, including new entrant UMass:

  • Toledo still has the best hand

  • Miami is poised to contend (again) after getting portal-raided (again)

  • Buffalo is in a great place after the first year of Pete Lembo

  • Ohio defends its first MAC championship in decades and enters the season with one of the most fun QBs in college football, Parker Navarro

  • NIU loses pretty much everything ahead of its last year in the conference

  • Eastern Michigan has a great returning receiver, and what else?

  • Bowling Green brings on Eddie George in one of most interesting coach moves of the year

  • UMass returns to the MAC after a decade away … and we find ourselves more optimistic about the Minutemen than we’ve ever been

  • Western Michigan might have this year’s Harold Fannin Jr.

  • Central Michigan is doing something different with new coach Matt Drinkall, and that’s all you can ask

  • Same for Ball State under new hire Mike Uremovich

  • Akron, despite a bit of hope, appears to be a bleak situation

  • Kent State undoubtedly is

Plus, preseason superlatives for the Mid-American.

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