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A look around the MAC

By Adam Rittenberg
Special to ESPN Insider

Monday, December 6, 2004

The 2004 Mid-American Conference football season unquestionably lacked the glint and glamour of the previous one. MAC teams stumbled through nonconference play, barely making a scratch against the BCS. After a 2003 season that had introduced the MAC to the rest of Division I-A, the element of surprise had vanished. In the end, however, none of it mattered. Handicapped by poor locations and unpredictable fan bases, the bowl-starved MAC finally got its due. A league that had never sent more ...

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