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The Mid-American Conference (MAC) is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I collegiate athletic conference with a membership base in the Great Lakes region that stretches from Western New York to Illinois. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in Ohio and Michigan, with single members located in Illinois, Indiana, and ...
Numerous other MAC schools competed in other football leagues throughout most of the league's history. In 1983, the Centennial Football League was formed by eight MAC members. Eventually, those eight schools and two others broke apart from the MAC for all sports, founding the Centennial Conference in 1991. Since then, all league members that ...
This includes schools that were members under the MAC's previous identity as the Middle Atlantic States Collegiate Athletics Conference. One school which had departed the conference has since re-joined: Stevens Institute of Technology , which competed in the MAC from 1922–23 to 1977–78, returned back since the 2019–20 school year, joining ...
The MAC Football Kickoff was held on Friday, July 19, 2024 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio from 9:00 am EDT to 1:30 pm EDT. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher spoke. [ 14 ] Each team had their head coach and a student athlete from both the offense and the defense to speak to the media.
$ – Conference champion and BCS representative as top non-AQ school to meet automatic qualification criteria; x – Division champion/co-champions; UMass not eligible for conference title or bowl game as part of FBS transition
The remaining schools are either independent, play in the Pac-12 Conference, or play in one of the conferences known as the Group of Five conferences, which consists of the American Athletic Conference (AAC or "The American"), Conference USA (CUSA), the Mid-American Conference (MAC), the Mountain West Conference (MW), and the Sun Belt ...
The MAC enters the 2023 season with two new head football coaches: Western Michigan fired Tim Lester on November 28, 2022, after his team finished the 2022 season with a 5–7. [ 55 ] [ 56 ] On December 7, 2022 Lance Taylor , who was the offensive coordinator for Louisville in 2022 , was introduced as the new head coach.
The MAC sponsored men's swimming & diving from 1952–53 through 2023–24. After that season, sponsorship of the sport transferred from the MAC to the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). By that time, Ball State and Miami were the only full MAC members to sponsor men's swimming & diving; the remaining five teams that competed in the MAC were ...