With six inter divisional games left, the East is playing the West nearly even for a change:5-7. Fiami, in fact, hasn't lost to a West team in two years. Looking at the last six games, the East may at least split them:

CMU (1-1)--Kent (0-2)
EMU (0-2)--Fiami (1-0)
Toledo (1-1)--BG (0-1)
Buffalo (0-2)--BSU (0-1)
BG--EMU
Fiami--BSU

You could probably say that about the American Athletic Conference also as UCONN, East Carolina, Tulane, Tulsa and the Bearcats all have 6, 7 or 8 losses.

Sometimes I wish we played in the MAC West where it would be a border war week in and out against mid to upper tier G5 competition. But if the trade off for playing Buffalo, Akron and Kent in football is getting to pay Buffalo, Akron and Kent twice during the regular season in basketball I'd rather be in the MAC East. The thing in East football is the ceilings on some of the programs aren't that high. Miami has the most potential. BG I think maxes out at the MAC Championship level. Akron and Kent don't win the MAC recruiting battles and 8 wins are a great season at those places. Buffalo's problem at this point I think is facilities. They announced plans to build an IPF in September but that is where Ohio was in 2010.

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