It's actually even worse than this.

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Just a bad look for the MAC as a conference in general.

MAC Official: "Yeah! You did beat Miami! But...because we got all these other metrics in place that we cherish so much, pretend that didn't happen! It didn't matter!"

Kinda more understandable why NIU left the MAC.

+1 This is the stupidest way to figure out a tie-breaker that I've ever heard of. It should have been either us or UT, since we both beat the Redchickens. Maybe Mr. 2000 is right, it's time to seek a new conference that isn't such a total embarrassment.

Go WMU crush the Redchickens!

What are they doing now? So, our game vs. Buffalo was a non-conference game all along?

I’ve heard we’ve been exploring the Sun Belt or ACC. Any truth to this? With the new as yet named investment on the horizon, maybe this is when the announcement comes?

I’m just asking if OCF and his connections has heard anything new on this front.

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I believe our Sports Administration program just honored Herr Doctor as alumnus of the year. Irony.

When was the team ever that good this season? If they were that good they would have won against Rutgers and defeated BalL State. It is what it is they've tracked the part of an 8-10 win team all season. Ohio is 12-0 the last two years at home but 2nd in FBS in turnovers at home the same time. Can't get away with that every week on the road.

While the opinion on Miami going to the MACC is never going to be popular on here, they were the team that deserved to go - based on the tie-breaker rules - whether anyone on here likes it or not. Yes, it's infuriating that in a 3-way tie amongst teams (MU, UT, OU) that the team (MU) that lost to BOTH others schools (UT, OU) gets to go. However, keep in mind that out of those three schools, Miami is the only one to have beaten WMU. Both UT and OU lost to WMU. Many people are quick to point out how Miami lost to both UT and OU but are failing to mention that important fact. And if we're all honest with ourselves, if Ohio found itself in the same boat as Miami is now, would the people on here complaining about Miami getting to go be saying Ohio shouldn't be going to Detroit right now? We all know the answer to that one.

That said, the head-to-head factor should count for much more IMO. In other tie-breaker models that are out there in some other conferences, Miami would have been removed based on that and the tie-breaker would have been decided between Ohio and Toledo. But that's not what the MAC has in place. I wasn't a fan of dropping divisions as it puts a much bigger premium on the tie-breaker criteria now. I get how the MAC wants/wanted to pit the two "best" teams in the MACC, but I still think there's going to be a lot of gray area on who those two teams actually are. Maybe the tie-breaker criteria will be tweaked, maybe not. But if we're sticking with not going to divisions, then we'd better get used to these kind of situations for years to come because they're likely going to pop up again more often than not.

Looking at the various conference final standings in this age of huge leagues and no divisions, this debate will be with us for years.

Take the ACC where a team plays only half of the teams in the 17 team conference. Virginia won the regular season and 5 teams tied for second with a 7 and 5 and unranked Duke playing for the conference title.

Or the SEC where a team only plays 8 of the other 15 teams. There is a four way tie for first and two 11 and 1 teams don't play in the conference title.