Scheduling

The UMass football team will likely play three home games at an upgraded McGuirk Alumni Stadium in 2014, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation. The other three home games will be played at Gillette Stadium. Two sources have indicated that it is all but a done deal. A third source indicated that there is still work to be done. “There is a lot of work that needs to get done between now and then, but if all goes on schedule that would be likely,” the source said. All three sources chose to remain anonymous since the decision [...]

The Mid-American Conference announced the 2013 Football Schedule, and UMass has no home mid-week games, which is great for attendance purposes. Here’s what we’re looking at: 8/31/13 – at Wisconsin 9/7/13 – Maine 9/14/13 – at Kansas State 9/21/13 – Vanderbilt 9/28/13 – BYE 10/5/13 – at Bowling Green 10/12/13 – Miami (OH) 10/19/13 – at Buffalo 10/26/13 – Western Michigan 11/2/13 – Northern Illinois 11/9/13 – BYE 11/16/13 – Akron 11/23/13 – at Central Michigan 11/29/13 – at Ohio (Friday) 12/7/13 – MAC Championship Game (@ Ford Field, Detroit) – Also, nice all-white uniform here in this staff photo (Thanks to reader/contributor Mike Locapo for the heads up): [...]