UMass Minutemen College Football Preview 2021: What Will Happen, Season Prediction
Blow off 2020.
Everyone in the college football world – and everyone else – has to obviously take the global pandemic year for what it was, but for UMass, it was truly a season of scrimmages to try to get everyone a little bit of experience.
Four games, all on the road, all against good teams, and it was all ugly. However, it’s not like the Minutemen were playing Alabama and Clemson.
Yeah, Liberty was wonderful, and Marshall, Florida Atlantic and Georgia Southern finished with winning records, but they weren’t so unbelievable that losing 161-12 to them and being totally inept in every phase was okay.
Going forward for head coach Walt Bell, it’s about trying to build this whole thing up into respectability.
Set The UMass Minutemen Regular Season Win Total At … 3
It would be more fun to be in the MAC again, or a part of Conference USA – just being everyone’s paycheck win as an independent isn’t entertaining for anyone.
However, the positive is that the program can find games at its own level. UConn, Rhode Island, Maine, at New Mexico State. Those all have to be wins if UMass is starting to take any sort of a positive step, and it would be nice to pull off a victory over an Eastern Michigan or maybe pull of a shocker against someone else.
More than anything, UMass just has to be competitive. It has to start finding something it can do right and it has create a positive identity in some way.
With just 19 wins since moving up to the FCS world in 2012, it’s taking a while.
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