Week 2 MAC Game of the Week

TURDLEDO @ CENTRAL MICHIGAN (-6)

I really didn't expect MAC games to get this important this early. 2 of the top MAC West team have a showdown on Saturday. Is it on TV? No, but 3 other MAC vs Big 10 games will be shown on the B10 network.

Toledo's not making any friends in the MAC:

"We hate Toledo just as much as we hate Western Michigan," said junior running back Ontario Sneed. "This game means a lot. We've got to have this win."

"We've beat (Toledo) two in a row," LB Red Keith said. "I think they're going to come in here after us, because we've got something they want."

Injury report: Toledo Senior FS Tyrrell Herbert is out with an injury. Another Senior in Toledo's secondary is out, but the article doesn't even list his name (WHY?) OK I looked it up. Senior CB Nigel Morris is also out for Toledo. CMU Senior WR Justin Gardner is questionable with an ankle injury.

Stadium Notes: Chips finally got a video scoreboard put up, which is pretty cool.

Cheerleaders will actually do stuff (unlike the NIU cheerleaders)

"We'll actually try to rally the crowd from inside the stands more often," Beirne said. The cheerleaders also will stick to traditional chants rather than learn dozens of routines at once.

"So instead of doing 30 things, we're going to do less, but we'll work a lot harder to get the students to yell it with us," Beirne said.

My prediction: Both teams got blown out last week, but I believe that Toledo has the stable coach in Toledo Tom Amstutz and stable running back in Jalen Parmele. Not to mention the revenge factor from last year's 42-20 loss at home. 35-23 Toledo.

MAC WEST DIVISION AWARDS - WEEK 1

Additional Nominations – West Division

Special Teams

Chris Nendick, PK-P, Northern Illinois (Nendick scored in his school record 38th consecutive game with a 33-yard field goal vs. Iowa for the Huskies only points on the day. In an emergency role, he stepped in for the injured punter Andy Dittbenner and booted seven punts for a 43.4 average in his first collegiate game as a punter. Nendick booted his initial punt 55 yards and dropped it at the Iowa five-yard line.).

I find it pretty funny 2 punters got Special Teams awards for MAC West teams.

MAC West Week 1 Recap

Iowa 16
NIU 3

Well there's not much to say here. We couldn't execute offensively (mostly due to our O-Line), but we fared better than some other MAC West teams that got blown out of the water. Let's check some of these games out:


WMU 24
WVU 62



KU's Pendleton takes one back 77 yds for a TD and still gets chewed out by Mangino

CMU 7
Kansas 52

Coachspeak: "When you play a team the caliber of Kansas, you can't beat yourselves and we did that tonight,"CMU football coach Butch Jones said. "We had missed assignments, we had too many dropped balls, and way too many mistakes.”

Watch Toledo get blown out of the water

Purdue 52
Toledo 24

From Thursday:
Miami OH 14
Ball St 13

and of course yearly doormats:
EMU 3
Pitt 27