The silver lining of being underrated is that sometimes an underrated team in the MAC goes on to win the whole thing.
Not saying that's us this year, though. Sadly we probably quite bad.
Excellent point. More often than not the designated "it team," does not win the MAC. In fact, there have been years when a team rated near the bottom in preseason rankings actually won the whole thing. Just saying . . .
This is one thing that makes the MAC more interesting than the power conferences. If you go back to the 1990s, there were a few teams that were dominant, but in the last fifteen years, there have been a few teams that were much worse than everyone else, but rarely a team that was way better than everyone else.