Based on last year's records, Buffalo and NIU face the weakest opposition on their MAC schedules this season:

Buffalo     25-39 Akron       29-35 BG           31-33 Fiami        32-32 UMass      33-31 Ohio         34-30 Kent         35-29

NIU         26-38 BSU        32-32 CMU       32-32 Toledo    33-31 EMU       37-27 WMU      37-27

If Buffalo beats BG on 10/4, they might make it to the MACC; the rest of their MAC schedule was a combined 18-38 last year.  Half of NIU's schedule was 3-29 combined; UMass, EMU and WMU were each 1-7 and Fiami was 0-8.