r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 04 '26
Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] UMass Defeats Rutgers 37-21
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u/GringoSalamanca Arizona State Sun Devils Sep 04 '26
Rutgers paid UMass $1.5 million for that game…
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u/Skyhav Michigan Wolverines • Marching Band Sep 04 '26
Imagine paying a team a bunch of money to lose to them on BTN. Couldn't be me. Haha... ha........
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u/Otherwise-Question70 Missouri Tigers Sep 04 '26
Big Ten Network was launched at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 30, 2007, with Big Ten Tonight as its inaugural program. The network aired its first live telecasts two days later on September 1, which included a football game between Appalachian State and Michigan
I never realized ya’ll get upset on the first day of BTN lmao
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Sep 04 '26
Hardly anyone saw it live because nobody carried the Big Ten network back then.
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u/WirlingDirvish Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Sep 04 '26
So basically the whole B1G should be thanking Michigan for convincing people to get the Big Ten Network. We really kickstarted people’s interest in the network.
I wonder how many Buckeyes and Spartians subscribed in the 4th quarter just to watch the end.
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Sep 04 '26
They showed the end of it on the Jumbotron at the Shoe.
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u/Funwithfun14 Toledo Rockets Sep 04 '26
Fair number of teams do that with Toledo
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u/discofrislanders Fairfield • St. John's (NY) Sep 04 '26
My fucking tax dollars down the drain
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u/Top_Ladder6702 Boise State Broncos • Maryland Terrapins Sep 04 '26
It’s even funnier considering how broke Rutgers is
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u/Dennisfromhawaii Rutgers • Hawai'i Sep 04 '26
On top of that, Schiano's buyout this year is 17.3 million.
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u/Difficult_Trust1752 Eastern Michigan • Penn State Sep 04 '26
Why does a Rutgers coach have a fucking buyout?
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover Sep 04 '26
UMASS snapped a 16-game losing streak and got paid 6 figures for it 😭
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u/OpportunityDue90 Scottsdale CC • Arizona State Sep 04 '26
You might wanna recheck those numbers Harvard of the west
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u/Swipet Kansas State • Fort Hays State Sep 04 '26
I thought they were the Hawaii of the east?
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u/Jiveanimal SMU Mustangs • Tennessee Volunteers Sep 04 '26
They're more like the Nebraska-Kearney of the south.
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u/bub166 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Wyoming Cowboys Sep 04 '26
As a UNK alum, I would be very upset about this if I could read.
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u/maliki2004 The Wagon Wheel • Ohio State Sep 04 '26
North Texas admission standards on display
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u/Leading-Button-7303 Utah Utes • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
I've seen enough, Umass is this years Indiana
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Sep 04 '26
Can’t wait for the UMass/North Dakota State title game!!!
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u/Sexy_Authy Texas A&M Aggies Sep 04 '26
I speak for ALL schools in the national title picture when I say we ALL want this outcome
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u/Sad-Peanut2413 Oklahoma Sooners • Wyoming Cowboys Sep 04 '26
UMass is already the Harvard of Massachusetts
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u/AuraC33 UMass Minutemen • Baylor Bears Sep 04 '26
it wasn't as close as the score suggests. i cannot fucking believe it
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u/Even-Combination4407 UMass Minutemen • Bentley Falcons Sep 04 '26
We legit smoked them. Could’ve easily been a 4 score win
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u/The_Homie_J Michigan Wolverines • Ohio Bobcats Sep 04 '26
UMass made Rutgers look like UMass
Damnedest thing I've seen in a long time
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u/prismatic_lights Ohio State • Pittsburgh Sep 04 '26
UMass is currently the #2 scoring offense and #7 scoring defense in the country.
Rutgers, you're going back to half-share for this.
Happy 20th season anniversary, BTN!
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover Sep 04 '26
UMASS went 8-76 over the last 8 seasons btw
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u/RulersBack Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
Rutgers being bad makes it hard to contextualize how big of an upset this was. UMass projected to be one of, if not the worst team in CFB and won on the road by 18 as 29.5 point dogs
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u/Moose4KU Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
UMass went down 7-0 then scored 30 straight points!!
Rutgers is just KJ Duff and 10 regular dudes
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u/efrumttr Illinois • Boise State Sep 04 '26
Lonergan wishes he was good enough to be a regular dude
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u/AnotherUnfunnyName Duke • Carolina Victory Bell Sep 04 '26
16 straight losses. And last season, they were one of the worst winless teams ever.
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u/ParsnipPizza UMass Minutemen • UConn Huskies Sep 04 '26
They went winless in Covid too, so 2 winless seasons this decade
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u/Rufus_Cuntnam Ohio Bobcats • Bethune-Cookman Wildcats Sep 04 '26
I don't think I can comprehend a world where UMass is good, and I'm tooootally not jealous after we lost such a close game to Rutgers last year
I'm baffled, but I do have to raise the flag for some MACtion🏴☠️
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u/KuriboShoeMario Virginia Tech Hokies Sep 04 '26
One of the biggest upsets in FBS history for sure.
Absolutely ridiculous loss for a P2 team and equally ridiculous win for a UMass program that knows almost no success at this level of play (power conference opponents). It wasn't like they scraped by either, UMass outclassed them in every phase of the game.
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u/Gophurkey Purdue • Vanderbilt Sep 04 '26
So this is like if Purdue won a conference road game?
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u/McGillicuddys Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 04 '26
This is like Michigan vs Appalachian State if Appalachian State only played their backups and Michigan brought JJ McCarthy back to play QB, then spent the entire game telling everyone how they played the first college football game in history
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u/Rickbox Washington Huskies • Columbia Lions Sep 04 '26
UMass going to the CFP!!
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u/MattPatriciasFUPA Michigan • Summertime Lover Sep 04 '26
That's just a mere formality for them at this point
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u/OleRockTheGoodAg Texas A&M Aggies Sep 04 '26
I've seen enough
The University of Massachusetts Minutemen are winning the national championship.
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u/Chuck_Phuckzalot Michigan • Central Michigan Sep 04 '26
Congrats on your 5-star recruits and $100M facilities, B1G fans. Meanwhile, the MAC is out here playing real football in front of 14 people and a raccoon on a Tuesday night during a blizzard. You ever seen a punter throw a touchdown to a long snapper while the scoreboard's on fire? Didn't think so.
While y'all are busy arguing over which frat-funded dynasty is slightly less fraudulent, Toledo's cooking up a triple-reverse flea flicker in a game that ends 43-42 after six missed PATs and a goalpost gets stolen. That's not football. That's MACtion. You wouldn't survive one quarter in Ypsilanti.
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u/JocavsJr Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
This is the greatest description of MAC football I’ve ever seen. They need to frame this and put in the MAC hall of fame (if that exists).
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u/CobaltSky Oregon Ducks Sep 04 '26
The MAC hall of fame is tattooed on that raccoon.
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u/JocavsJr Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
I see nothing wrong with this. As long as the raccoon is okay with it.
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u/wit_T_user_name Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Sep 04 '26
It was the raccoon’s ideas.
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u/roythhh_lewithhh Vanderbilt Commodores Sep 04 '26
It's the MAC Hall of Fame, Tanning Parlor, and Haircare Salon. It's located on an exit off I-94 near Parma. Byron Leftwich gives audio tours. It doesn't have great Yelp reviews but people say that the F3 tornado that hit it a couple summers back made some improvements.
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u/j01101111sh Nebraska Cornhuskers • Billable Hours Sep 04 '26
Is this pasta? because it's delicious
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u/Chuck_Phuckzalot Michigan • Central Michigan Sep 04 '26
Yes, at least a couple years old at this point.
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u/j01101111sh Nebraska Cornhuskers • Billable Hours Sep 04 '26
It's amazing. Thank you for this gift of knowledge
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u/galacticdude7 Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 04 '26
The Sickos Committee even made merch for this pasta
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u/19Styx6 Iowa State Cyclones Sep 04 '26
B1G teams play in front of 14 people and a raccoon on Saturday afternoons in Southern California.
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u/definitelynotasalmon Washington State • Easter… Sep 04 '26
Don’t be silly.
There were at least 3 dozen raccoons at the Coliseum.
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u/GhostPosterMassDebat Michigan Wolverines • College Football Playoff Sep 04 '26
Ypsilanti mentioned, take my upvote
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u/ParsnipPizza UMass Minutemen • UConn Huskies Sep 04 '26
I've never been happier about the MAC move than this comment, actively adopting UMass as a culturally MAC school thank you sir
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u/DarthNobody14 Texas A&M Aggies Sep 04 '26
UMass has been easily the worst FBS team since moving up in 2012. They are 26-134 since 2012 and 7-53 since COVID.
It’s been 677 days since Umass won a football game.
It’s been 1,041 days since UMass beat an FBS opponent.
It’s been 2,903 days since UMass beat an FBS opponent by 16+ Points
It’s been 3,946 days since UMass won by multiple scores on the road against an FBS opponent.
It’s been 17,749 days since UMass beat a power FBS team.
It’s been 45,206 days since UMass beat a traditional power FBS team as a “Major” Division 1 school.
The last time it happened was October 4th, 1902 against Boston College.
And for the first time in the 53,611 days as a program, UMass won a game as 30 point underdogs
For all the problems it has, College Football truly is the most special sport in the world.
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u/hitokirizac Notre Dame Fighting Irish • Texas Longhorns Sep 04 '26
ahem, it *had been*. Now it sounds like those numbers should all be 0
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u/duvie773 South Carolina • Presbyterian Sep 04 '26
Per my sources, you’re wrong on all those stats. Each one of them is actually 0 days
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u/kd451 Team Chaos • Team Meteor Sep 04 '26
123 years????
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u/FarmerGoth Michigan Wolverines • Sickos Sep 04 '26
Their first season was 1879, so it could have been worse
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u/KuriboShoeMario Virginia Tech Hokies Sep 04 '26
For what it's worth, they did beat BC in 1978. BC was an independent that season but they were in 1902 as well.
Still a very long time since a win over an opponent of that caliber.
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u/PSU02 Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 04 '26
UMass is the Georgia of Rutgers's
Rutgers is the Kentucky of Rutgers's
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u/2Pollaski2Furious Washington Huskies • Apple Cup Sep 04 '26
For those wondering: Yes there will still be a TJOTW vote and no I'm not going to declare Rutgers the winner on a Thursday night.
But if there's something out there that tops this I can't wait to see it (unless it involves Washington)
Congrats on your nomination, Knights.
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u/noah_divine Ohio Bobcats • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
early nominee for ultimate tank job
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u/Thehomelessguy11 Washington • Georgia Tech Sep 04 '26
Early strong contender, for sure lol
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u/JohnPaulDavyJones Texas A&M Aggies • Baylor Bears Sep 04 '26
Maybe for the year, but I still remember when UNLV beat Baylor 27-24 in Waco in 1999, on a 99-yard fumble return for a touchdown as time expired.
UNLV finished that year at 3-8, dead last in the MWC.
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u/FuzzyWDunlop UMass Minutemen Sep 04 '26
Hello everyone and welcome to the UMass bandwagon. Us sickos who have been here in the basement for years are happy to have you on board.
This game was obviously incredible. Pop Watson is instantly the best QB we've ever had. The offense looked amazing. Our defense has never had 3+ TOs in any meaningful game I can remember. They made big tackles in a way we never had. Special teams was excellent and penalties were limited, two areas that have routinely caused us heartbreak for years. Seems like this team will be fun to watch!!!
For long term stuff, I think fans were maybe hoping for 3-4 wins this year (we play 2 FCS teams), and now of course are hoping for more. We have a second year head coach, Joe Harasymiak ,who has rebuilt the team after not having a full recruiting cycle last time around.
Many have asked for years why have any hope for UMass and even before this win, there was some reason to have hope. Harasymiak was a good hire and we actually have recently committed to being the top funding team on the MAC for NIL, facilities, and staff. So there was reason to believe, but maybe we're ahead of schedule.
Anyway, pleased to have you aboard! Come root for us as we apparently challenge for a MAC title and our first bowl game? But honestly we have no idea what happens from here!!
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u/chevybow UMass Minutemen Sep 04 '26
All my years watching games have led up to this moment.
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u/FuzzyWDunlop UMass Minutemen Sep 04 '26
It really has been a journey. Like knowing they were terrible and had no hope and tuning in anyway, basically all for the purpose of this payoff today. It's funny to (re)define sports success as a fan in New England. And this win just feels sooo gooood.
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u/caballonegro69 Tennessee Volunteers • Maryland Terrapins Sep 04 '26
Also did you guys completely reinvent the punt? That guy was incredible just absolute knucklepucks
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u/FuzzyWDunlop UMass Minutemen Sep 04 '26
My take has always been that we should be the destination for the #1 punting recruit every year. I think this guy (Phillipson) is a 2nd year player out of Australia and he freakin rules!
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u/Lefunnymaymays4lief Notre Dame • Jeweled Shillelagh Sep 04 '26
Rutgers fans: “Boy I sure hope this is a blowout, we haven’t seen one of those in a while”
[monkey’s paw curls]
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u/CommodoreIrish Notre Dame • Vanderbilt Sep 04 '26
UMass (+29.5) over Rutgers is a bigger upset than Northern Illinois (+28) over Notre Dame.
Just saying.
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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki Michigan Wolverines Sep 04 '26
App State was like a 32 point underdog and won by 2 points. That means by point swing, this was a significantly larger upset than App State over Michigan.
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u/noah_divine Ohio Bobcats • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
how on earth did Dylan Lonergan get recruited by Alabama to play quarterback?
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u/Rooleet Boston College Eagles Sep 04 '26
Maybe one day people will figure out to stop taking QBs from Boston College
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u/mrdilldozer Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26
I was saying it in the other thread, but apparently he looked perfectly fine during practices and scrimmages. On paper he looks like a decent recruit. I guess the guy can't handle even the slightest amount of pressure in a real game.
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u/huskersax Nebraska • $5 Bits of Broken Chair Tr… Sep 04 '26
Well apparently Rutger's defense is not great either - so it's entirely possible he looked good because he was playing his own team's defense.
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u/Our-Gardian-Angel Wisconsin Badgers • Sickos Sep 04 '26
Whatever the opposite of iron sharpens iron is
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u/discofrislanders Fairfield • St. John's (NY) Sep 04 '26
Saw a tweet that said Rutgers invented CFB and has spent the last 160 years regretting that decision
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u/nathodood Michigan Wolverines • Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 04 '26
In the beginning, Rutgers created College Football. This has made a lot of Rutgers fans very angry and has been widely regarded (by them) as a bad move.
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u/SiphenPrax Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26
After 22 months, UMass has won a football game.
LOfuckingL Rutgers. What an absolute fucking disaster of a home opener.
Reminds me when my stupid Jets gave the fucking Cleveland Browns their first win in almost 21 months.
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u/USA_2_Canada_1 Michigan • Old Dominion Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Jets fan and Rutgers fan, you’re gonna have a great fall buddy
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u/Bird_nostrils Stanford Cardinal • Pac-12 Sep 04 '26
He's probably a Mets fan, too.
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u/SiphenPrax Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Ding ding ding! I love the pain suffering (no I don’t)!
Thank fuck for the Knicks though
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u/DwyaneWade305 Florida Gators Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Waiting for the Jets/Rutgers/Mets/Nets trifecta.
EDIT: Quadfecta?
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u/EstablishmentTop551 Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
Throw in the Islanders for good measure
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u/Cartmaaan-brah Indiana Hoosiers • Rose Bowl Sep 04 '26
Well at least you’re not a Rutge- nevermind
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u/SimilarOnion1655 Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 04 '26
Game vs Boston College will be a sicko game of the ages
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u/kd451 Team Chaos • Team Meteor Sep 04 '26
Why are you guys so bad at sports? At some point it has to harm the university's reputation, right?
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u/Illustrious_Fudge476 Lafayette • Penn State Sep 04 '26
They are decent at wrestling and used to be good at women’s basketball but that’s about it.
A couple years ago they had Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey, the 2nd and 5th pick, and still managed to finish with a losing record.
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u/hawksnest_prez Iowa Hawkeyes • Big Ten Sep 04 '26
Not to overreact but Rutgers should be immediately expelled from the B1G
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u/Master-Praline-3453 Nebraska Cornhuskers Sep 04 '26
Instructions unclear; Rutgers takes LSU's spot in the SEC
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u/Leaf_blower_chipmunk Illinois Fighting Illini • Marching Band Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
The final score is highly misleading as to how badly Rutgers lost this game
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u/JKess207 Tulane Green Wave • Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26
I genuinely don’t know where this program goes from here. This is the lowest I’ve felt in my entire life of watching this team.
As a Big Ten school in today’s era of CFB, this is absolutely inexcusable
We paid 1.5 million for this. Remember that.
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u/KuriboShoeMario Virginia Tech Hokies Sep 04 '26
You guys have to fire someone for this game. I'm not sure who, but someone has to be sacrificed here, it's too bad of a loss to just shrug off.
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u/PM_ME_FIRE_PICS Arkansas Razorbacks Sep 04 '26
We lost to ULM the season after being arguably the 3rd best team in the country and have been completely irrelevant for the 14 years since.
I recommend getting into nice bourbons.
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u/Aragorns-Broken-Toe Indiana Hoosiers Sep 04 '26
People are going to crap all over Rutgers for this but give UMass its props. For a perennial doormat to come out and look competent at minimum should deserve its praise.
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u/Stinkfinger83 Indiana Hoosiers Sep 04 '26
Agreed, but we can still shit on Rutgers
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u/Darko33 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26
Pls do we deserve it
But I welcome literally anything that hastens Schiano's departure
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u/awrf UMass Minutemen • Team Chaos Sep 04 '26
All I ask is for some of y'all to look up a few of Pop Watson's highlights from this game, we would have beaten a LOT of teams playing like this.
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u/Even-Combination4407 UMass Minutemen • Bentley Falcons Sep 04 '26
Thanks dude. They’ve been trying to invest in this program for the past couple years now. So glad to see it begin to pay off.
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u/RomanTacoTheThird Alabama • St. Bonaventure Sep 04 '26
Joe Harasymiak is an excellent coach. He took Maine to the FCS semifinals and coordinated several good defenses in the Big Ten.
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u/PheonixStreak Virginia Tech • Commonwealth C… Sep 04 '26
Holy shit fire last years coaching staff into the sun again, you’re telling me we had a QB capable of winning for UMASS and we didn’t use him?
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u/penguinkg Virginia Tech • Transfer Portal Sep 04 '26
We did that one time and guess what we won that game
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u/hammock-cat UMass Minutemen • Boston College Eagles Sep 04 '26
Imagine paying UMass $1.5mil to come kick your ass
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u/brobroma H8 Upon The Gale Sep 04 '26
Rutgers has lost $500M on athletics since joining the B1G. I'm not sure they have the ~$20M it would take to fire Schiano....
Given where UMass has been this decade, this might be the worst loss by a power conference team in a LONG time. I know BIll Connelly's SP+ had UMass ranked below like half the FCS.
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u/zvexler Indiana Hoosiers • Maryland Terrapins Sep 04 '26
Sheesh, the entire reason they joined the B1G was because they were already in deep financial trouble…
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u/Janemba_Freak Oregon Ducks • Rose Bowl Sep 04 '26
SP+ has a D-III school and an NAIA school above them. This was an unthinkable upset
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u/noah_divine Ohio Bobcats • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
wonder if this is the game that helps them realize they have no business being in the big ten
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u/discofrislanders Fairfield • St. John's (NY) Sep 04 '26
They're not going to voluntarily demote themselves and give up the revenue
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u/MediumStrange Cincinnati • Michigan Sep 04 '26
I think they realized that a while ago,
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u/Agreeable_Wind3751 Michigan Wolverines • Rose Bowl Sep 04 '26
Checks keep coming though
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u/Tarlcabot18 UCF Knights • USF Bulls Sep 04 '26
At this point the Rutgers athletic department is just 2 kids in a hat and trench coat that has "Big Ten School" written on it in crayon.
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u/alton_britches Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Given where UMass has been this decade, this might be the worst loss by a power conference team in a LONG time.
As a Virginia Tech fan, I really appreciate this line of thinking.
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u/corundum9 Ohio Bobcats • /r/CFB Poll Veteran Sep 04 '26
All of the sudden I'm quite content that Ohio avoids UMass in conference play.
Also, a Big Ten team averaging 1.2 YPC on 25 attempts against a MAC team is insane.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Sep 04 '26
Meanwhile…I had put the Minutemen as one of Sacramento State’s only few chances of a win this season…
…guess they’re especially fucked now, ain’t they?
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u/Even-Combination4407 UMass Minutemen • Bentley Falcons Sep 04 '26
Pretty easily greatest moment as a CFB fan. So fucking insane.
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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Sep 04 '26
UMass has been looking to capture at least some of that glory that had in their I-AA/FCS days…
…maybe that time has finally come!
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u/USA_2_Canada_1 Michigan • Old Dominion Sep 04 '26
Greg Schiano, get ready to learn, “midnight Nutrafil commercials” buddy
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u/YodaForceGhost Maryland Terrapins • Big Ten Network Sep 04 '26
Future BTN analyst Greg Schiano
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u/beatlemaniac Tennessee Volunteers Sep 04 '26
Idk where he is right now but John Currie should be fired again immediately for hiring this dude to coach Tennessee
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u/SquadPoopy Florida Gators Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Man poor UMASS, I know it’s been a rough couple seasons many seasons decade existence for them, but being thrown to a Big 10 team in week one is brutal.
Wait.
Sorry what?
The fuck do you mean look at the box score again?
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u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin Oregon State • Oklahoma State Sep 04 '26
Is UMass the new Indiana?
Many people are asking.
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover Sep 04 '26
UMASS went 0-12 last year and had lost 16 games in a row.
They scored 14 or less points in 10 of their 12 games last year, and lost by 4+ touchdowns in nine of them.
They were outscored 214-54 over their last 5 games of 2025. An average score of 43-11.
They had lost 23 straight games against FBS opponents.
They went 8-76 over the last 8 seasons.
They’ve had 7 seasons with 1 or 0 wins since 2011.
They had never beaten a power 4/power 5 team.
Today, they went into Rutgers, as a 29.5-point underdog, and scored 30 unanswered en route to their first win against an FBS team since October 2023 at Army.
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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • Pop-Tarts Bowl Sep 04 '26
Kelley Ford did statistical analysis throughout last season, and his preseason projection had UMass as the third worst team in FBS. At the end of the year, he concluded their actual performance was so bad that they were the team he had most overrated.
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u/Leading-Button-7303 Utah Utes • Ohio State Buckeyes Sep 04 '26
God. Damn. What a day to be a minuteman
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u/Dokkan_Lifter James Madison Dukes Sep 04 '26
UMass plays 2 FCS opponents, UConn, and 8 MAC teams. Going undefeated might raise uncomfortable questions for the CFP.
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u/CowbogRS Oklahoma State Cowboys Sep 04 '26
GZ UMass! You no longer have the longest active losing streak in the FBS. That title belongs to Oklahoma State…
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u/mcdorr72 Oklahoma State • Boise State Sep 04 '26
I was having fun in this thread. Thanks.
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u/Dennisfromhawaii Rutgers • Hawai'i Sep 04 '26
We may lose every game but at least let's keep Duff's draft stock high. It's the Rutgers way (see Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey).
Also, I'm in Spain, minus the S.
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u/CoachSlime Nebraska • Colorado State Sep 04 '26
Good thing Rutgers scheduled this game for Thursday night to get the maximum amount of publicity!
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u/Tarlcabot18 UCF Knights • USF Bulls Sep 04 '26
Rutgers paid UMass $1.55 million for this loss.
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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover Sep 04 '26
$1.55 million to a team that had lost 16 straight, had lost its last 5 games of 2025 by an average of 33 points per game and had an average record of 1-11 over the last 8 years.
Legitimately one of the most hilarious losses ever.
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u/TheOptimist6 Ohio State Buckeyes • Ohio Bobcats Sep 04 '26
We are currently in someone’s UMASS dynasty play through in the ncaa video game
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u/LonesomeHyrax UMass Minutemen • Lehigh Mountain Hawks Sep 04 '26
Legit brought me to tears. Congrats to all my fellow fans out there. I don't think any other fanbase can quite relate to how we feel right now.
We need to keep it rolling against Sacred Heart and Stonehill or it's all for nothing.
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u/Cybotnic-Rebooted Syracuse Orange • North Texas Mean Green Sep 04 '26
Is Rutgers the first team eliminated from the CFP this year?
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u/WatchOutIGotYou Washington Huskies • Salad Bowl Sep 04 '26
Current FBS programs that UMass has beaten (Last Victory and Last Victory Score)
| Team | All-Time Record | Last Year Won | Last Win Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rutgers | 3-3 | 2026 | 37-21 |
| Army | 1-5 | 2023 | 21-14 |
| New Mexico State | 2-1 | 2023 | 41-30 |
| Connecticut | 40-38-2 | 2021 | 27-13 |
| Akron | 2-4 | 2019 | 37-29 |
| Charlotte | 1-1 | 2018 | 49-31 |
| Liberty | 1-6 | 2018 | 62-59 3OT |
| Georgia Southern | 2-3 | 2017 | 55-20 |
| App State | 1-1 | 2017 | 30-27 |
| BYU | 1-3 | 2017 | 16-10 |
| FIU | 2-3 | 2016 | 21-13 |
| Eastern Michigan | 2-4 | 2015 | 28-17 |
| Buffalo | 6-10 | 2015 | 31-26 |
| Kent State | 1-2 | 2014 | 40-17 |
| Ball State | 2-2 | 2014 | 24-10 |
| Miami (OH) | 1-5 | 2013 | 17-10 |
| Delaware | 7-25 | 2011(+) | 21-10 |
| James Madison | 8-7-1 | 2010 (+) | 21-14 |
| Nevada | 1-0 | 1978 (+) | 44-21 |
| Boston College | 5-23 | 1978 | 27-0 |
| Toledo | 1-8 | 1976 | 28-14 |
- (+) - Opponent was in FCS/Division I-AA during this game
- First win against a power conference opponent since joining the FBS in 2012
- First win against a current power conference team since Boston College.
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u/dukexxsilver UMass Minutemen Sep 04 '26
Local kids Pop Watson and Joe griffin coming back to western MA and making us proud. Defense also looked great!
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u/pyrokapi324 Illinois Fighting Illini Sep 04 '26
It’s one thing to drop an embarrassing game to a MAC team in week 1, it’s another thing to get completely dominated at home by a team that went 0-12 last year and wasn’t expected to be much better.
Credit to UMass though, they looked genuinely pretty good most of the night
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u/godzillamegadoomsday Sep 04 '26
Not just 0-12. On a 16 game losing streak and hadn’t beat a fbs team in 3 years, much less a P4 team
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u/SimilarOnion1655 Ohio State Buckeyes • Kansas Jayhawks Sep 04 '26
Rutgers vs Boston College will be the sicko match of the ages and UMass is making a bowl game
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u/theyhatemeee Purdue Boilermakers Sep 04 '26
Road wins against B1G teams
Purdue the whole time I've been here (I'm a senior): 0
0-12 UMass today: 1
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u/coolguyyama Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26
Listening to the Rutgers radio broadcast as I drive and this is the most depressing thing I’ve ever listened to lmao they know the season is over
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u/awrf UMass Minutemen • Team Chaos Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
I know this thread is going to be full of LOL Rutgers which is fine, but this is my national championship right here. We didn't just win, we looked like a legitimately good football team. Seriously go look at some highlights, some of Pop Watson's throws were nuts. I almost wonder if this might be the year we manage our first ever bowl bid. I'm so happy y'all