Thursday News --- 05/28/09

The New Hampshire Football report has two posts with some UMass Football news in them. The first has the Athlon preseason FCS ranking (with UMass as #15).

The second post has Mike Zhe's (who covers UNH for the Portsmouth Herald) ballot for the 2009 CAA preseason poll. He has four UMass players on the All-star team and rates UMass second in the CAA North.

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E-Bay has a 1998 UMass National Championship XL t-shirt in excellent condition for $18.98

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College Football News.com has a multi-page review of Kansas State. It's as good as, or better than, anything you'll get in the college football magazines.

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2008 CAA FOOTBALL NON-CONFERENCE RECORD*

(Since 2002)

-------------- Overall -------------- ----Playoffs-----

Year Games W-L Pct. W-L Pct.

2002 36 24-12 .667 3-3 .500

2003 36 24-12 .667 4-1 .800

2004 47 32-15 .681 8-3 .727

2005 40 25-15 .625 2-2 .500

2006 39 24-15 .615 4-3 .571

2007 47 30-17 .638 6-5 .545

2008 54 34-20 .630 8-4 .667

TOTALS 299 193-106 .645 35-21 .625

From the 2009 CAA Press Guide.