MAC Football Pod

EPISODE 68

Everybody looks forward to a potential 4-way tie in the MAC West. Well, here's what the conference is serving up: 4 teams tied with 1-2 starts in the West. Hope you're hungry.

Brett Gabbert's injury isn't Miami's fault, but that's no excuse for Miami's offense to look like *this*. Western Michigan, we're looking at you too.

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 67

Kurtis Rourke is dealing out there folks. At this rate, he's running away with First Team All-MAC recognition, but will he be able to throw Ohio all the way into Ford Field? The MAC East is bound to be a very fun divisional race this year, but only if anybody can get Buffalo to trip up sometime soon. Miami tried and failed, now the Bulls are already off to a 3-0 start in league play. 

Toledo looks damned good this year, independent from the rest of the MAC West, which looks pretty bleak this year. 

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 66

Is the #1 team in the MAC as clear-cut as the advanced numbers hint at? Through five weeks of the season, that answer keeps getting harder and harder to answer. The MAC as a whole is in a down year, and every team has its injuries to deal with. 

Maybe this will end up being a Ball State championship year after all. 

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 65

We are one-third of the way through the season already. Whew.

MACtion heats up across the board this weekend, which means it's really the start of a new season. How much of what we saw in September will even be replicated in league play?

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 64

Eastern Michigan beat Arizona State!

Bowling Green beat Marshall!

Northern Illinois lost to Vanderbilt!

Seriously, what are we supposed to do with these results?

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 63

Did Eastern Kentucky run the best bad play in football history?

Just how bad is the MAC after a brutal Week 2 for the league?

All the boys are here for this one as we try to answer those questions and share a lot more thoughts from last weekend. 

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 62

Settle a debate here. Is it about the size of the dog in the fight, or is it the other way around? Asking for a sports league.

More importantly, week 1 finally happened! Let's discuss!

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://www.ypsi11.com/

EPISODE 61

Week 1 is officially here!

Let's look at the MAC teams projected win totals, then make picks on what we think will happen in the opening week of football.

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://ypsilantieleven.substack.com/

EPISODE 60

In this episode, we're looking at the 2022 schedules and trying to build, via draft, our own MACtion stadium road trip tours for the season. The two of us, Alex and Justin, will draft upcoming home games on the calendar and try to hit up as many different MAC stadiums as possible. 

Alex's trip: Toledo, then Ball State, Northern Illinois, bye week, Akron, Miami, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Eastern Michigan again, Ohio, Western Michigan, Toledo again, and finish in the year in Buffalo.

Justin's trip: Start in Ohio, bye week, then Western Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Ball State, Northern Illinois, Toledo, Central Michigan, Akron, Bowling Green, Miami, Buffalo, then back to Eastern again.

And before you ask, no, we didn't plan on going to Rynearson Stadium 4 times and Kelly/Shorts 0 times. It just happened that way. 

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://ypsilantieleven.substack.com/

EPISODE 59

Let's preview the season by rolling a 20-sided die.

Alex and Justin will tell you exactly what you should expect to happen this college football season.

Twitters: @ARAlvarado13, @Kaleb_M_Carter, and @NIFFOCNITSUJ.

LINKS

• Alex's newsletter, The Ypsilanti Eleven: https://ypsilantieleven.substack.com/