This conference has too much parity at the moment.
Throw Buffalo, Ohio, Northern Illinois, Eastern Michigan, and Toledo in a round-robin bracket, and no team escapes unscathed. Each of the top five teams in the MAC has looked like the best team in the conference at times, while fitting the role of a 4-8-caliber team at other times.
Buffalo’s 52-17 walloping, courtesy of Ohio, really shook up the Bulls’ nearly perfect season. Lance Leipold’s team looked completely outmatched and his typically stellar offense only recorded two touchdowns in the beatdown. Ohio’s lopsided victory comes just one week after Miami (OH) upended the Bobcats in the Battle of the Bricks, leading by as many as 21 points at the break.