If you look at past history as a guide, Rutgers has traditionally fared well against teams from the Mid-American Conference. The Scarlet Knights are 12-3-1 versus MAC foes in their history.
For its 2017 preview, Athlon Sports ranked the college football conferences and the MAC was rated as the ninth-best league behind the SEC, the ACC, the Big Ten, the Pac-12, the Big 12, the American, Mountain West and Conference USA.
"The MAC’s biggest problem is a lack of balance between the two divisions. You could make an argument that the fifth-place team in the West last year (Central Michigan) was better than the East champion (Ohio),'' Athlon Sports wrote in July.