r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Sep 04 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] UMass Defeats Rutgers 37-21

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
UMass 7 17 3 10 37
Rutgers 7 0 0 14 21
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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/NStanley4Heisman Iowa Hawkeyes • Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 04 '26

Tough evening for regular dudes such as myself all over the country. 

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u/acekingoffsuit Minnesota Golden Gophers Sep 04 '26

"KJ Duff and 10 NJ duds" was right there.

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u/buttcabbge Missouri Tigers • Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26

If Duff announced he was sitting out the rest of the season I'm not sure I'd blame him.

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u/mageta621 Rutgers Scarlet Knights Sep 04 '26

Duff deserves better. 11 guys from the stands could score on our D

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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/awrf UMass Minutemen • Team Chaos Sep 04 '26

And you could say "well COVID doesn't count" but those three games we did play featured probably the worst football team that has been fielded in 75 years

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u/ParsnipPizza UMass Minutemen • UConn Huskies Sep 04 '26

Experience Walt Bell football

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u/SituationSoap Michigan Wolverines Sep 04 '26

Until, apparently, 2026 Rutgers.

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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/ResidentRunner1 Saginaw Valley State • Mic… Sep 04 '26

Return of the MAC

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u/SituationSoap Michigan Wolverines Sep 04 '26

MAC now stands for Massachusetts American Conference.

Sorry, I don't make the rules.

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u/TimelyBodybuilder637 Notre Dame Fighting Irish • UMass Minutemen Sep 17 '26

Get it what it does what it is what it isn't 

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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/Ender_D Virginia Tech Hokies Sep 04 '26

That Pop Watson fellow looked pretty good, didn’t he?

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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/Electric_Queen NC State Wolfpack Sep 04 '26

I need this as a mspaint bar graph

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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/ShackletonsVael Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 04 '26

Damn basically 30 point underdogs was the line going in? I love college football haha.

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u/kroxti Auburn Tigers • Navy Midshipmen Sep 04 '26

This is the biggest cfb sports narrative upset since checks notes Indiana going undefeated and winning the national championship…

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u/Mail_Order_Lutefisk Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 04 '26

An indictment on the Big Ten and the reason why the SEC should get no fewer than 7 teams in the playoff. 

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u/lifetake Michigan Wolverines • Florida Gators Sep 04 '26

Your flair perfectly complimenting your comment.

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u/Sorta-Morpheus Western Michigan Broncos Sep 04 '26

Sac State was predicted to finish above UMass. Sac state looks like an fcs program.

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u/CommodoreIrish Notre Dame • Vanderbilt Sep 04 '26

From a point spread, this is a worse upset than NIU over Notre Dame.

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u/FrenchFreedom888 Oklahoma State Cowboys Sep 04 '26

UMass won by 16 points lol

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u/Swoah Rutgers • Garden State Bowl Sep 04 '26

lol

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u/Fear_the_chicken Penn State Nittany Lions Sep 04 '26

Somehow PSU is the second winner here because we lost some big recruits to Rutgers cause they had the money now they’ve shown they aren’t serious even if they pay I don’t think players want to lose to UMASS

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u/shaqwillonill Sep 04 '26

Shi stadium is really the Death Valley of New Jersey too

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u/CraigslistBulbasaur Pittsburgh Panthers Sep 04 '26

Let's also remember this is Schiano Rutgers, not the absolute embarrassment they were for their first decade in the B1G. We'll see what the rest of the season holds for them, but the past few years they've been a borderline bowl team.