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Can anyone catch the Thundering Herd?

By Jorge Milian
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, August 12, 2002

No Division I-A team has dominated its league like Marshall has the Mid-American Conference since joining in 1997. In its first four seasons as part of the MAC, the Thundering Herd posted a 27-5 record against conference opponents and won the league championship each season. Things changed last year. Marshall swept its eight regular-season conference games, but was upset by Toledo in the MAC title game. Figure on things going back to the way they were. Led by Heisman Trophy candidate Byr ...

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