2011-2012 Football Previews – MAC Conference – Toledo Rockets
Tim Beckman has successfully turned this Toledo football program around. This is a team that was at the bottom a few years ago.
Tim Beckman has successfully turned this Toledo football program around. This is a team that was at the bottom a few years ago.
Jeff Quinn came into Buffalo expecting to make this team into an offensive power, but the plan fell flat in his first year. Quinn’s Bulls finished dead last in scoring offense last year, as the Bulls averaged just 14.17 points per game.
It has been quite a long time since Florida State was the dominant force in the college football landscape, but we could finally be heading for some late 1990s déjà vu.
The UNLV Rebels are coming off one of their most embarrassing season in school history, and have continued their decade of irrelevancy, winning just two games in 2010.
The New Mexico Lobos continued their loosing ways in 2010, their third bowl-less season in a row. Now their conference is tougher and their quarterback situation is as dicey as it gets.
Two seasons removed from their 40-35 victory over Fresno State in the 2008 New Mexico Bowl, the Colorado State Rams will try to recapture the success of previous years in 2011 that has been nonexistent in recent seasons.
An appalling season deserves no accolades, and that is what the Wyoming Cowboys turned in last year; an atrocious season. The only up side was the Boys’ final game when they shut out Colorado State 44-0. They will now try to make mends and built on that victory to get out of the cellar of the MWC.
The San Diego State Aztecs had an extraordinary year in 2010, finishing the season 9-4 after a 35-14 win in the Poinsettia Bowl again Navy. Now they will look to improve upon their success in 2011, but will face stiff competition in the WSC.
The Air Force Falcons head into the 2011 season ready to show what our military can do on the field. Last season they showed up with the will to win and a bruising running game that is sure to lead them to another successful season.
Ball State made a coaching change in the offseason, and it is Pete Lembo who will be the new head coach for the Cardinals.
It’s hard to believe, but the Ohio Bobcats have yet to win a bowl game in the 49 years that the program has competed at the FBS level.
Darrell Hazzell took over the Kent State program after being a top assistant at Ohio State for years, but he was a late hire. In fact, he had just six weeks to get his first recruiting class put together.
Frankly, Franklin steps into a mess. The new Vandy head coach inherits a 2-10 team on the bottom rung of the Southeastern Conference.
The Wildcats have always been more of a basketball power rather than a force to be reckoned with on the gridiron in the SEC.
Rob Ianello’s first year at Akron went about as poorly as it possibly could have. Ianello was known as an offensive-minded coach, but the Zips were 119th in the nation in total offense. How bad was the offense?
I often talk about how unbalanced offenses usually struggle, but the Bowling Green Falcons were the epitome of a team without any balance last year. Bowling Green ranked dead last in rushing yards, and it wasn’t even close.