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How many of you caught this in Peter King's article about NFL preseason games? Bill Polian's response to the idea that college football plays no preseason. Kinda painful to my MAC eyes. Thoughts?

"But colleges do have preseason games,'' said Polian. "They just don't call them that. Look at what the Big Ten does the first couple of weeks, scheduling Mid-American Conference opponents. [Elsewhere,] maybe Buffalo goes to Auburn, or Troy State to Nebraska. Lots of the big-time colleges play a couple of those before they play conference games, and those games serve as their preseason games..."

Sometimes the truth does hurt and for the most part MAC games v. the big conferences work out that way.

Pre-season for them.... opportunity for us. We need to make the most of these games. No excuses for those schools when they do get beat by a MAC team though. Come ready to play 4 quarters.

I guess Illinois was in mid season form when we beat them last year.

OUBOBCATJOHN Wrote:I guess Illinois was in mid season form when we beat them last year.

No excuses for Illinois there.

We whipped SEC Kentucky's butt a couple of years ago in mid season as well.