The 11-3 season in 2012 broke up three straight campaigns for Kent State in which the team went 5-7. The 4-8 record is the team’s worst in the past five years, and the struggle was largely due to an ineffective […]

In two years at the FBS level, UMass has recorded two 1-11 seasons, with a grand total of two collective wins in conference play over those years. The Minutemen went 1-7 in conference play in 2013, and not one aspect […]

Ball State finished with a 7-1 conference record, which in almost any normal circumstance would have landed the team a spot in the conference title bout. But the Cardinals had Northern Illinois with which they needed to contend in the […]

Akron won four games against Mid-American Conference opponents in 2014, and took down FCS program James Madison, 35-33, in Week 2 of the college season. The Zips played a particularly tough non-conference schedule, with contests against UCF, Michigan and Louisiana […]

The Bulls were led by standout linebacker Khalil Mack, who was the eventual fifth-overall draft selection by the Oakland Raiders in May’s NFL Draft. As a unit, Buffalo’s defense recorded 38 sacks and 891 tackles on the season, with 15 […]

The campaign got off to a rough start as TCU dropped a 37-27 decision to LSU, and the team alternated wins and losses over its next several games. Its victories came against Southeast Louisiana, SMU and Kansas — not exactly […]

Bowling Green finished the season at 10-4 overall, with a Mid-American Conference mark at 7-1. That included a 20-point blowout of the then- undefeated Northern Illinois Huskies, 47-27, in the conference title game. The Falcons wrapped up the 2013 season […]

However, WVU would go on to suffer defeats in three straight and six of its last seven overall. Three of its final four games went to overtime, showing that the squad was competitive, but the Mountaineers lacked the killer instinct […]

The 2013 campaign, Brown’s last at the school, resulted in an 8-5 record, with seven of those victories coming against Big 12 foes. The season started with a bang as the Longhorns thumped visiting New Mexico State, 56-7. From there […]

From there however, the shine came off as Tech dropped five in a row to close out the regular season. That second-half fall from grace coincided with the tougher part of the schedule as those setbacks came against Oklahoma (38-30), […]