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It was hard to separate yourself from the pack in efficiency, but only a few teams figured out how to carve out bigger chunks of real estate.
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That said, a lot of MAC teams were dealing with quarterback injuries. Only two were particularly decent on both sides of the ball, and the home of MACtion didn’t have nearly as many high-octane offenses as its reputation suggests it should. (You can’t really say that about the East.) How these teams looked in 2016 Toledo and WMU are in front of the pack, but the other four in this division could be taking each other out for bowl eligibility. The most interesting thing to me about these West projections: the fight for a sixth overall win could be fascinating. Meanwhile, Akron has just about the hardest conference schedule imaginable, and Kent State has just about the easiest. Miami is the front-runner, but three are projected within one conference win of each other. Projected conference wins, with overall wins in parentheses. S&P+ is higher on Ball State and lower on Akron than I am, basically.
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( You can find full 2017 S&P+ projections here.) Here’s how my statistical system has the MAC laid out for 2017, with 0 equating to an average FBS team. Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure Kent State will be hiring a new coach in about eight months. But when "Hey, maybe a random leap will occur" is your best reason for optimism, you’re starting pretty far down on the power rankings. Neither the stats nor eyeballs really see it coming when it happens, and who knows, maybe it’ll happen for UB’s Lance Leipold. Examples from 2016: EMU’s Chris Creighton and Wyoming’s Craig Bohl. Just about every year, a coach pulls off a third-year leap you didn’t see coming. I like EMU more than my numbers do, and the odds of Bowling Green bouncing back are solid but not guaranteed. CMU could break the "six or so losses every year" trend, but close games could skew the win total in either direction. I found almost no way to separate them, and I’ve changed my mind about the order multiple times.Īkron is the most volatile team of the bunch, and Ohio’s the most steady. Really, this is a 5a, 5b, 5c, etc., situation. Anybody from the MAC East has a chance to snare a muddy division title and pull a title game upset, I guess, but from a pure quality standpoint, Miami and NIU are closest to the Rockets and Broncos. If UT or WMU doesn’t win, it’s almost certainly going to be one of these two. Fleck left behind, I won’t be thinking that at the end of this season. Granted, I’ve thought that multiple times before, and if Tim Lester is able to click with the talent P.J. I really think this is Toledo’s year to take charge. Here’s a link to every team’s data, and each team’s name below is linked to its preview.
So far we’ve done the Sun Belt and C-USA. This is just how I would rank the teams after writing thousands of words about each of them. This is in no way based on schedules, so they are not predictions. At the end of each conference previews run-through, I take a look at how I perceive the conference's balance of power heading into the season.