{"id":433,"date":"2019-07-18T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T20:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/?p=433"},"modified":"2019-07-18T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T20:20:22","slug":"2019-mac-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/2019-mac-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 MAC Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

East Division<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>Team<\/td>Win-Share (Conf)<\/td>Record (Conf)<\/td>Rating<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Buffalo Bulls<\/td>5.4 (3.8)<\/td>6-6 (5-3)<\/td>3.07<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Ohio Bobcats<\/td>6.3 (4.2)<\/td>7-5 (5-3)<\/td>3.22<\/td><\/tr>
3<\/td>Akron Zips<\/td>5.2 (3.7)<\/td>4-8 (4-4)<\/td>2.91<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Miami (oh)
Redhawks<\/td>		4.8 (3.7)<\/td>4-8 (3-5)<\/td>3.13<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Bowling Green
Falcons<\/td>		4.9 (3.6)<\/td>4-8 (3-5)<\/td>2.90<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>Kent State
Golden Flash<\/td>		4.4 (3.5)<\/td>4-8 (3-5)<\/td>2.89<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

West Division<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Place<\/td>Team<\/td>Win-Share (Conf)<\/td>Record (Conf)<\/td>Rating<\/td><\/tr>
1<\/td>Toledo Rockets<\/td>8.0 (5.7)<\/td>9-3 (7-1)<\/td>3.70<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>NIU Huskies<\/td>6.1 (4.5)<\/td>6-6 (5-3)<\/td>3.39<\/td><\/tr>
2<\/td>WMU Broncos<\/td>7.1 (5.0)<\/td>7-5 (5-3)<\/td>3.52<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>CMU Chippewas<\/td>5.6 (3.7)<\/td>5-7 (3-5)<\/td>3.21<\/td><\/tr>
4<\/td>EMU Eagles<\/td>4.9 (3.3)<\/td>4-8 (3-5)<\/td>2.95<\/td><\/tr>
6<\/td>Ball State
Cardinals<\/td>		5.2 (3.3)<\/td>3-9 (2-6)<\/td>3.05<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n

Championship Game<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Toledo over Buffalo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notes<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Buffalo once again makes it to the championship game, this time falling short against Toledo. Toledo can make a solid case for a top 25 team. May be the best MAC team in several years. Probably 3rd best Group of 5 team after Boise St and UCF. Overall it looks to be a down year for the MAC. Not a lot of depth this year. A few of the better programs look to have rebuilding years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other team outside of Toledo makes a good case for Top 25 contention. 5 teams are eligible for bowls, although it’s likely 1 could end up on the outside looking in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowl Projections<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Team<\/td>Bowl Projections<\/td><\/tr>
Toledo<\/td>Tart Cherry Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Western Mich<\/td>Camellia Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Buffalo<\/td>Idaho Potato Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
NIU<\/td>Dollar General Bowl<\/td><\/tr>
Ohio<\/td>N\/A<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

East Division Place Team Win-Share (Conf) Record (Conf) Rating 1 Buffalo Bulls 5.4 (3.8) 6-6 (5-3) 3.07 1 Ohio Bobcats 6.3 (4.2) 7-5 (5-3) 3.22 3 Akron Zips 5.2 (3.7) 4-8 (4-4) 2.91 4 Miami (oh) Redhawks 4.8 (3.7) 4-8 (3-5) 3.13 4 Bowling GreenFalcons 4.9 (3.6) 4-8 (3-5) 2.90 4 Kent StateGolden Flash 4.4 […]<\/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":[164,82,198,130,191,196,197,90,193,199,97,194,133,132,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplifiedfootball.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}