CBS Sports.com....

We're finished with the month of September in college football, and if there's anything we've learned through the first five weeks of The Bottom 25 it's this: the MAC is the official conference of The Bottom 25.

Last year's champion, Miami (OH), calls the MAC home. This year, while there isn't a MAC team currently in the top spot, four of the top ten teams in our rankings are from the MAC, with five MAC teams total qualifying. That's nearly 40% of the conference currently calling The Bottom 25 home.

But I don't think those stats tell the story as well as this next one does.

This is the fifth week of The Bottom 25, and through five weeks 11 of the 13 teams in the MAC have appeared in these rankings at least once. The only two teams who haven't qualified yet are Toledo and Northern Illinois.

Now, some of this is due to change in the coming weeks. As we enter conference play the MAC will begin beating up on the MAC, wins will gained and spots in our poll will be lost. It's an unfortunate reality, but I just want the MAC know that I won't forget what it accomplished here this month.

That's MACtion, baby.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...e-rankings

(09-30-2014 01:27 PM)DiehardHuskie Wrote:  CBS Sports.com....

We're finished with the month of September in college football, and if there's anything we've learned through the first five weeks of The Bottom 25 it's this: the MAC is the official conference of The Bottom 25.

Last year's champion, Miami (OH), calls the MAC home. This year, while there isn't a MAC team currently in the top spot, four of the top ten teams in our rankings are from the MAC, with five MAC teams total qualifying. That's nearly 40% of the conference currently calling The Bottom 25 home.

But I don't think those stats tell the story as well as this next one does.

This is the fifth week of The Bottom 25, and through five weeks 11 of the 13 teams in the MAC have appeared in these rankings at least once. The only two teams who haven't qualified yet are Toledo and Northern Illinois.

Now, some of this is due to change in the coming weeks. As we enter conference play the MAC will begin beating up on the MAC, wins will gained and spots in our poll will be lost. It's an unfortunate reality, but I just want the MAC know that I won't forget what it accomplished here this month.

That's MACtion, baby.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...e-rankings

Yeah the MAC is so bad that Akron embarrassed Pitt haha. You have many other places to look for bigger embarrassment this year including Big 10, MWC, CUSA

lol what a joke. here is the conference break down from that list:

aau: 3
sun: 5
mac: 5
mwc: 5
sec: 1
cusa: 4

and i'd agree, because while the MAC is in the top three of that list, the Sun Belt rarely gets a nod as a FBS conference. Both the MWC and MAC have tough OOC schedules this year. It should be fun to revisit this as the BIG continues to eat itself. the fact that neither Michigan nor Purdue are on this list instantly makes it hot garbage.

(09-30-2014 01:55 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 01:27 PM)DiehardHuskie Wrote:  CBS Sports.com....

We're finished with the month of September in college football, and if there's anything we've learned through the first five weeks of The Bottom 25 it's this: the MAC is the official conference of The Bottom 25.

Last year's champion, Miami (OH), calls the MAC home. This year, while there isn't a MAC team currently in the top spot, four of the top ten teams in our rankings are from the MAC, with five MAC teams total qualifying. That's nearly 40% of the conference currently calling The Bottom 25 home.

But I don't think those stats tell the story as well as this next one does.

This is the fifth week of The Bottom 25, and through five weeks 11 of the 13 teams in the MAC have appeared in these rankings at least once. The only two teams who haven't qualified yet are Toledo and Northern Illinois.

Now, some of this is due to change in the coming weeks. As we enter conference play the MAC will begin beating up on the MAC, wins will gained and spots in our poll will be lost. It's an unfortunate reality, but I just want the MAC know that I won't forget what it accomplished here this month.

That's MACtion, baby.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...e-rankings

Yeah the MAC is so bad that Akron embarrassed Pitt haha. You have many other places to look for bigger embarrassment this year including Big 10, MWC, CUSA

Ya cause the Big Ten is worse than the MAC.

UM's big wins are Appalachian State and Miami O. The rest of their games they scored a total 24 points. Let's not piss off the Big Programs by calling them out. Purdue, Kansas, etc they all stink.

Can you play two FCS teams in one year like Ball State did? Why would you do that?

(09-30-2014 02:15 PM)thehappyhuskie Wrote:  lol what a joke. here is the conference break down from that list:

aau: 3
sun: 5
mac: 5
mwc: 5
sec: 1
cusa: 4

and i'd agree, because while the MAC is in the top three of that list, the Sun Belt rarely gets a nod as a FBS conference. Both the MWC and MAC have tough OOC schedules this year. It should be fun to revisit this as the BIG continues to eat itself. the fact that neither Michigan nor Purdue are on this list instantly makes it hot garbage.

EXCELLENT points.

The Sun Belt bottom 5 didnt get lit up in OOC like our bottom 5 did. Must we list these games again?.... It was not pretty.

Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

(09-30-2014 08:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

No, Michigan is not one of the 25 worst teams in the country. They've played 2 teams on that list (Miami OH and Appalachian State) and beat them by a combined score of 86-24. They aren't good but you can easily name 25 teams worse than them (like every team on the linked list and the other two teams mentioned in your post).

The loser of the Illinois/Purdue game this weekend deserves to make the list, and the winner might "make" it if they don't win another game the rest of the year, which is entirely possible.

Also...you realize Iowa won at Pitt, right? So is beating Pitt good or not?

Pitt sucks and yes the MAC is worse than the Big Ten, except in MD's world.

Outside of the SEC though, there aren't many special teams.

(09-30-2014 10:01 PM)UIHuskie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 08:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

No, Michigan is not one of the 25 worst teams in the country. They've played 2 teams on that list (Miami OH and Appalachian State) and beat them by a combined score of 86-24. They aren't good but you can easily name 25 teams worse than them (like every team on the linked list and the other two teams mentioned in your post).

The loser of the Illinois/Purdue game this weekend deserves to make the list, and the winner might "make" it if they don't win another game the rest of the year, which is entirely possible.

Also...you realize Iowa won at Pitt, right? So is beating Pitt good or not?

Iowa is a top 25 team though according to some pollsters lol

I think the author of this piece loses credibility when he says Miami (OH) won the conference last season.

(10-01-2014 06:33 AM)epasnoopy Wrote:  I think the author of this piece loses credibility when he says Miami (OH) won the conference last season.

I believe he means that Miami was "champion" of the Bottom 25.

(10-01-2014 01:14 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 10:01 PM)UIHuskie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 08:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

No, Michigan is not one of the 25 worst teams in the country. They've played 2 teams on that list (Miami OH and Appalachian State) and beat them by a combined score of 86-24. They aren't good but you can easily name 25 teams worse than them (like every team on the linked list and the other two teams mentioned in your post).

The loser of the Illinois/Purdue game this weekend deserves to make the list, and the winner might "make" it if they don't win another game the rest of the year, which is entirely possible.

Also...you realize Iowa won at Pitt, right? So is beating Pitt good or not?

Iowa is a top 25 team though according to some pollsters lol

MD, you skirted the question. You can't say beating Pitt is a huge win for Akron and turn around and put down Iowa for having beaten them as well.

I'm not saying Iowa is great, but they are 4-1 right now, after going 8-4 last year, and losing by 1 TD to LSU in their bowl game. I can remember last year you touted them as NIUs "quality win". Their schedule has been fairly weak but so is NIUs most years you are clamoring for more respect in the polls.

I'm not surprised that you continue to twist any information to try and make the MAC seem superior to the Big 10 in rationalizing your Big 10 inferiority complex.

(09-30-2014 08:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

Purdue yes, Illinois (?) has a 3-2 record, how do you justify putting a team with a winning record in the bottom 25. Michigan is not bottom 25 but definitely in the bottom 50

The article author needs to do a 2nd listing of FCS programs that should be in the FBS

(10-01-2014 07:51 AM)HuskieJoe Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 01:14 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 10:01 PM)UIHuskie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 08:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

No, Michigan is not one of the 25 worst teams in the country. They've played 2 teams on that list (Miami OH and Appalachian State) and beat them by a combined score of 86-24. They aren't good but you can easily name 25 teams worse than them (like every team on the linked list and the other two teams mentioned in your post).

The loser of the Illinois/Purdue game this weekend deserves to make the list, and the winner might "make" it if they don't win another game the rest of the year, which is entirely possible.

Also...you realize Iowa won at Pitt, right? So is beating Pitt good or not?

Iowa is a top 25 team though according to some pollsters lol

MD, you skirted the question. You can't say beating Pitt is a huge win for Akron and turn around and put down Iowa for having beaten them as well.

I'm not saying Iowa is great, but they are 4-1 right now, after going 8-4 last year, and losing by 1 TD to LSU in their bowl game. I can remember last year you touted them as NIUs "quality win". Their schedule has been fairly weak but so is NIUs most years you are clamoring for more respect in the polls.

I'm not surprised that you continue to twist any information to try and make the MAC seem superior to the Big 10 in rationalizing your Big 10 inferiority complex.

He loves to trash the big 10, but then NIU deserves respect for beating up on the bottom feeders of the conference he loves to trash. It's not a consistent viewpoint at all.

Quote:No, Michigan is not one of the 25 worst teams in the country. They've played 2 teams on that list (Miami OH and Appalachian State) and beat them by a combined score of 86-24. They aren't good but you can easily name 25 teams worse than them (like every team on the linked list and the other two teams mentioned in your post).

I agree. Purdue last year could make the bottom 25, sure. But to make a TRUE Bottom 25, you have to be ranked OVER #100.

Illinois struggled for come-back wins against two non-lofty-mid-majors, and got a close win against a good D1AA team. IMO, they'd be a step above Purdue, and both would be in the middle-to-upper part of the lower-half of the mid-majors. Far from Bottom 25? No. If either team slides, oh, they can make it. Depending on how many bad mid-majors also slide.

(10-01-2014 01:20 PM)PrideinthePack Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 07:51 AM)HuskieJoe Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 01:14 AM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 10:01 PM)UIHuskie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 08:17 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  Purdue, Michigan, and Illinois need to be on this list.

What a huge win for the MAC with Akron just knocking the snot out of Pittsburgh, a team many were high on.

No, Michigan is not one of the 25 worst teams in the country. They've played 2 teams on that list (Miami OH and Appalachian State) and beat them by a combined score of 86-24. They aren't good but you can easily name 25 teams worse than them (like every team on the linked list and the other two teams mentioned in your post).

The loser of the Illinois/Purdue game this weekend deserves to make the list, and the winner might "make" it if they don't win another game the rest of the year, which is entirely possible.

Also...you realize Iowa won at Pitt, right? So is beating Pitt good or not?

Iowa is a top 25 team though according to some pollsters lol

MD, you skirted the question. You can't say beating Pitt is a huge win for Akron and turn around and put down Iowa for having beaten them as well.

I'm not saying Iowa is great, but they are 4-1 right now, after going 8-4 last year, and losing by 1 TD to LSU in their bowl game. I can remember last year you touted them as NIUs "quality win". Their schedule has been fairly weak but so is NIUs most years you are clamoring for more respect in the polls.

I'm not surprised that you continue to twist any information to try and make the MAC seem superior to the Big 10 in rationalizing your Big 10 inferiority complex.

He loves to trash the big 10, but then NIU deserves respect for beating up on the bottom feeders of the conference he loves to trash. It's not a consistent viewpoint at all.

That is what I was making fun of, how Big 10 buttkissers in here dont follow consistency. We get preached and preached how the Big 10 is the best football conference and then we have a few scenarios like Akron just destroying Pitt, and then Iowa beating Pitt. These same Big 10 lovers say , "oh Iowa was not very good anyway, Pitt really does suck so Akron deserves no credit". Its that inconsistency and double talk that drives me batty.