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Chris Galloway
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MAC Schedule

Posted: 3/18/2026 11:27:33 AM

Any insight on when the MAC schedule will be released? Almost always released before Spring Practice begins.

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Victory
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RE: MAC Schedule

Posted: 3/18/2026 12:46:45 PM

Chris Galloway wrote:

Any insight on when the MAC schedule will be released? Almost always released before Spring Practice begins.

A statement was released when season tickets went on sale that it would be out in late February or early March. They have already missed that target.

With one less week in the season than last year, and odd number of teams that requires at least one team not playing a conference game every week in October and November, everyone not having availability to play conference games in September because they already committed to their OOC games in these four weeks because they assumed there would be 12 teams in the league and MAC games would be played in October and November, a commitment in place to play a large number of weeknight games in November midweek which essentially requires the use of the one bye week this year to reset the schedule.....They have to pick between the least bad of only really bad options on how to do that.

I HOPE that the MAC understood this and had committed to which bad plan they were going to use prior to signing on Sac. St. I still expect that this was the case. My guess is that the solution will be that numerous teams will be forced to play a compressed Sat. then Thur. then Tue. type of schedule and that there might be a Thursday game or two in this setup required to be on Oct. 29. My guess is that there is a lot of infighting on which programs certain aspects of this will be forced and in which week in will be forced on them.

Last Edited: 3/18/2026 1:50:21 PM by Victory

OhioCatFan
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RE: MAC Schedule

Posted: 3/18/2026 12:52:11 PM

Victory wrote:

Chris Galloway wrote:

Any insight on when the MAC schedule will be released? Almost always released before Spring Practice begins.

A statement was released when season tickets went on sale that it would be out in late February or early March. They have already missed that target.

With one less week in the season than last year, and odd number of teams that requires at least one team no playing a conference game every week in October and November, everyone not having availability to play conference games in September because they already committed to their OOC games in these four weeks because they assumed there would be 12 teams in the league and they would be played in October and November, a commitment in place to play a large number of weeknight games in November midweek which essentially requires the use of the one bye week this year to reset the schedule.....They have to pick between the least bad of only really bad options on how to do that.

I HOPE that the MAC understood this and had committed to which bad plan they were going to commit to prior to signing on Sac. St. I still expect that this was the case. My guess is that the solution will be that numerous teams will be forced to play a compressed Sat. then Thur. then Tue. type of schedule and that there might be a Thursday game or two in this setup required to be on Oct. 29. My guess is that there is a lot of infighting on which programs certain aspects of this will be forced on which programs and in which week in will be forced on them.

+1, but they're being paid $18 million for all those bad options!

Last Edited: 3/18/2026 12:52:31 PM by OhioCatFan

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STVCastle
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RE: MAC Schedule

Posted: 3/18/2026 5:18:19 PM

It would be funny if out of the blue the MAC announced a 14th football member right before they release the schedule. I don't think they'd be that crazy to do that, but this is a different era in college sports.

Victory
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RE: MAC Schedule

Posted: 3/18/2026 6:41:19 PM

STVCastle wrote:

I don't think it can happen at this point. I feel like there is a decent chance that South Dakota State will sign a 4 year contract that exits the same time as Sac. State. Play in the FBS because they apparently really want to since NDSU is now. Probably pay the MAC some money. Reassess where you want to be after 2030.

Last Edited: 3/18/2026 6:45:43 PM by Victory

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