The storied conference with all kinds of tradition, great coaches and great players and great rivalries, finally kicks off its season this week, with a six-game conference schedule and a heralded television spectacle.
In other college football news, the Pac-12 is starting, too.
Wait, you thought I was talking about the Pac-12? Uh, no. The Pac-12 is great, but I’m talking the MAC. Mid-American Conference.
And the MAC is giving us a November treat. It’s doubling down on its relatively-new tradition of scattered games on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in November. The MAC kicks off Wednesday night with six games, all 12 league teams, and four of them will be televised on cable: Buffalo-Northern Illinois at 6 p.