With a win over Western Kentucky on Saturday, Derek Mason is now 11-3 as head coach against non-Power 5 opponents. Of the three losses, one was to a Houston team that made a New Year’s Six bowl (might as well have been a Power 5 team), and another was to a Western Kentucky team in 2015 that finished the season 11th in S&P+. (We’ll not speak of the third one.)
And counting this game, he’s now won six in a row against non-Power 5 opponents, and those six wins have been by an average of 20 points per game, and only the Western Kentucky game last year was even close.