Thursday News 02/12/09

Rhode Island has released its 2009 schedule. That, along with the leak of Northeastern's schedule, allows most of UMass' 2009 football schedule to be determined.

• 09/05 @ Kansas State
• 09/12 @ Albany
• 09/19 Rhode Island
• 09/26 Open or OOC game (home)
• 10/03 Open or OOC game (home)
• 10/10 @ Delaware
• 10/17 UNH
  
• 10/24 @ Richmond
• 10/31 @Maine (unconfirmed)
  
• 11/07 Northeastern
• 11/14 James Madison
• 11/21 @ Hofstra

Thanks to several Blog readers for their e-mails on this.

Some notes on the schedule: Delaware was originally listed on the Hens site as 10/31 and then was moved to the 10/10 date. The rumor is that Stony Book will be the fifth UMass home game, but no information on either school's website. An unofficial look at the CAA's 2009 schedules here .

It always seemed to me that the CAA South teams rarely came north in cold weather. I took a look at the past schedules of this year's CAA South opponents.

• Delaware - 28 games, seven in November. Latest date of the Hens playing at McGuirk: November 11,2000. We lost 19-31
• James Madison- 12 games, four in November. Latest date of the Dukes playing at McGuirk: November 5, 1994. We won 27-24.
• Richmond - 21 games, eight games in November. Latest date of the Spiders playing at McGuirk: November 21, 2001. We lost 7-35. That was the only time UMass played any of the Richmond, Delaware, JMU trio as the last game of the regular season.

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In 2008 Texas Tech played two FCS/I-AA opponents: UMass and Eastern Washington. The Eagles just got hit win NCAA sancions. More here .

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Maine will receive $450,000 and not have to play Florida State. Good deal for the Black Bears!

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