This weekend, Eastern Michigan gets to travel to Amherst, Massachusetts, where they get to face an old Mid-American Conference opponent in the form of the University of Massachusetts Minutemen.
The Minutemen joined the MAC in 2012 after bumping up to FBS, but would eventually bolt to the independent ranks in 2016. But the Minutemen didn’t leave before facing the Eagles twice in cross-division action— winning both times.
In 2014, Eastern Michigan lost 28-17 at Rynearson Stadium. In 2015, Eastern Michigan lost 36-14 in Amherst. A lot of time has passed since then, and both programs are certainly in much different situations now than they may have been in in the mid-2010’s, to say the least.