UMASS will join the MAC for football in 2012

The Midwestern league is set to announce that they will be inviting FCS power UMass to join as a football-only member, according to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. The MAC Twitter feed has already confirmed that a press conference has been scheduled tomorrow featuring both conference and UMass officials; it's all but official.


Per the Plain Dealer, the Minutemen will play a full conference schedule as soon as 2012 but won't be eligible for the league championship until 2013. UMass is the second football-only member that plays its other sports in the Atlantic 10, joining Temple, and brings the MAC's total football membership up to 14.

Its not really big news since they not playing in a power conference in Football but at least Massachusetts has two DIV1 schools now to root for. The best bowl UMASS can ever make unless they somehow make it tor top 5 of the BCS standings ever is the GMAC Bowl. WOWY! Best bowl period.