{"id":336,"date":"2017-06-28T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=336"},"modified":"2017-06-28T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T19:40:11","slug":"2017-mac-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2017-mac-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 MAC Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"
The MAC had a very good last year with the success of Western Michigan earning the Group of 5 bid. Western Michigan should still be good, but not good enough to recapture their 2016 season. We expect the Mac to take a step back this year and perhaps be the worst conference. But one that is capable of pulling off it’s normal Big Ten upsets at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n
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For each Conference we will have the Simplified Football predictions (record) with the Projected Win-Shares and rating of each team next to it. We will also have Bowl Projections for each conference.<\/p>\n
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MAC\u00a0Predictions:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n East<\/em><\/p>\n Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n West<\/em><\/p>\n Team \u2013 Record (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Win-Shares (Conf) \u00a0\/ \u00a0Rating<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bowling Green sneaks through the East and Western Michigan slides through the dominant West.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Championship game \u2013\u00a0Western Michigan beats down Bowling Green in the Championship game<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n That makes 5 bowl teams for the\u00a0MAC<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Idaho Potato Bowl – Western Michigan<\/p>\n Dollar General Bowl – Northern Illinois<\/p>\n Camellia Bowl – Toledo<\/p>\n Bahamas Bowl – Bowling Green<\/p>\n Quick Lane Bowl – Miami (oh)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The MAC had a very good last year with the success of Western Michigan earning the Group of 5 bid. Western Michigan should still be good, but not good enough to recapture their 2016 season. We expect the Mac to take a step back this year and perhaps be the worst conference. But one that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[130,100,90,129,91,131,133,132,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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