Why MAC Football Should Relegate Itself To The FCS  By    |
  Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Filed under: Culture and Society,
Sports Tags: , , , ,  This goes beyond the conference finishing
1-14 in their last 15 bowl games (thank you, Central Michigan).
I have the best of intentions when I implore the Mid-American
Conference football to get out of the stiff Bowl Subdivision and
into a warm, comfy Championship Subdivision.  You might be
asking: isn't this sports suicide? Who wants to go backwards?
Nobody chooses weaker competition except for the weak
themselves. (There's probably a motivational plaque somewhere
that says this.)  But perhaps their game is not BCS material,
and in this convoluted system, that's the whole point. In 2003,
Miami University finished 10th in the AP Poll. That was the last
time the top mid-major was Mid-American. Since then, it's been a
rocky rotation of Boise State, Utah, BYU, and TCU. At some point
in the recent past, the MAC put all their competitive chips into
football, but even smart