It was the first time in three years Toledo hadn’t made it to a bowl game. The season started out poorly with tough matchups against SEC opponents Florida (ranked No. 10 at the time) and Missouri. Despite a scare in […]
The last time Miami won fewer than four games in a season was back in 2009, when the team went 1-11. Since 2010, the RedHawks have been on a bit of a decline. Miami was 10-4 that season, and had […]
Northern Illinois finished the season with a 12-2 overall record, which included a perfect 8-0 mark in conference play. The Huskies were defeated, however, but Bowling Green in the Mid-American Conference title game, 47-27. Still, NIU was invited to play […]
The Chippewas suffered three straight losses after that to put a scare into coach Dan Enos and the CMU fan base. But the team pulled it together in the latter half of the season, winning five of the last seven […]
The Eagles tried out two different quarterbacks in 2013, but neither helped improve the dismal scoring offense the Eagles trotted out each week. Eastern Michigan averaged a weak 18.8 ppg in 2013 and surrendered 45.2 ppg to opponents. EMU has […]
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 […]