2011 Mid-American Conference football season

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2011 Mid-American Conference football season
Mid-American Conference logo.svg
League NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision)
Sport Football
DurationSeptember 1, 2011
through January, 2012
Number of teams13
TV partner(s) ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, Big Ten Network
Regular season
Season MVP Chandler Harnish
East championsOhio
West championsNIU, Toledo
MAC Championship Game
ChampionsNIU
  Runners-upOhio
Finals MVP Nathan Palmer (NIU)
Football seasons
←  2010
2012  →
2011 Mid-American Conference football standings
ConfOverall
Team W L  W L 
East Division
Ohio xy  6 –2   10 –4  
Temple  5 –3   9 –4  
Kent State  4 –4   5 –7  
Bowling Green  3 –5   5 –7  
Miami (OH)  3 –5   4 –8  
Buffalo  2 –6   3 –9  
Akron  0 –8   1 –11  
West Division
Northern Illinois xy$  7 –1   11 –3  
Toledo x  7 –1   9 –4  
Western Michigan  5 –3   7 –6  
Ball State  4 –4   6 –6  
Eastern Michigan  4 –4   6 –6  
Central Michigan  2 –6   3 –9  
Championship: Northern Illinois 23, Ohio 20
  • $ – Conference champion
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
  • y – Championship game participant

The 2011 Mid-American Conference football season is the 66th season for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The season began on Thursday, September 1, with four games: Bowling Green played at Idaho, Central Michigan hosted South Carolina State, Temple hosted #14 (FCS) Villanova, and Toledo hosted #10 (FCS) New Hampshire. The conference's other nine teams began their respective 2011 seasons of NCAA Division I FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) competition on Saturday, September 3. The first in-conference game was September 10, with Temple hosting Akron.

Contents

Previous season

Preseason

Preseason poll

The 2011 MAC Preseason poll results were announced at the Football Media Preview in Detroit on July 26. In the East Division, Miami was picked as champion, while Toledo was picked to win the West Division and the MAC Championship Game. [1]

East Division

  1. Miami - 97 points; 4 first-place votes
  2. Ohio - 96 points; 8 first-place votes
  3. Temple - 88 points; 4 first-place votes
  4. Kent State - 57 points
  5. Bowling Green - 48 points
  6. Buffalo - 37 points
  7. Akron - 25 points

West Division

  1. Toledo - 83 points; 8 first-place votes
  2. NIU - 81 points; 5 first-place votes
  3. Western Michigan - 76 points; 2 first-place votes
  4. Central Michigan - 55 points; 1 first-place vote
  5. Ball State - 27 points
  6. Eastern Michigan - 24 points

MAC Championship

Three votes were not cast for any team.

  1. Toledo - 5 votes
  2. NIU - 3 votes
  3. Miami - 3 votes
  4. Ohio - 1 vote
  5. Western Michigan - 1 vote

Head coaches

Pre-season coaching changes

On November 21, the day after Kent State's seventh loss of the season assured them of a losing record, Doug Martin announced that he would resign at the end of the season. [2] On December 20, Kent State athletic director Joel Nielsen introduced former Ohio State receivers coach Darrell Hazell as the new head coach for the Golden Flashes. [3] Hazell was the first Ohio State assistant coach to leave for a head coaching job in six years; the last was Mark Snyder, who was hired by Marshall in 2004. [4]

On November 23, three days after Ball State concluded its season with a 4–8 record, Ball State athletic director Tom Collins announced the firing of Stan Parrish, saying, "As we evaluated the on-field performance and the football program in its entirety, we decided it was time for a change in direction in the leadership of the program". [5] On December 19, Collins announced that he had hired Pete Lembo, formerly the head coach at Elon. [6]

On December 5, NIU head coach Jerry Kill accepted the position of head coach for the Minnesota Golden Gophers. His announcement came less than two weeks before the Huskies were scheduled to play in the Humanitarian Bowl. Leaving the team in the manner he did (many teammates learned about his new job via Twitter instead of from Kill himself [7] [ unreliable source? ]) dealt an emotional blow to the members of the team; star quarterback Chandler Harnish saying about Kill's departure, "I have a horrible taste in my mouth". Additionally, besides the emotional impact, USA Today noted "The timing of the announcement further hurts the program due to Kill most likely taking the bulk of his staff to Minnesota." [8] On December 9, linebackers coach Tom Matukewicz was announced as the interim head coach for the Huskies bowl game, [9] and on December 13, the university hired Wisconsin Badgers defensive coordinator Dave Doeren as the head coach, to begin after the Humanitarian Bowl.[ citation needed ]

On December 12, ESPN reported that Al Golden was offered and accepted the head coaching job at the University of Miami. [10] Prior to the 2010 season, provisions requiring bowls to pick teams with seven or more wins if available before picking six-win teams were eliminated from NCAA bylaws, [11] and Temple was the first team go uninvited under the rule change, despite going 8–4 including a win over eventual Big East BCS representative Connecticut. On December 22, a rumor [12] was quickly confirmed that Florida offensive coordinator, and former Florida interim head coach (winter of 2009-2010), Steve Addazio would be the new Temple coach. [13]

On December 16, ESPN reported that Michael Haywood, who had been named the 2010 Mid-American Conference Football Coach of the Year days before, [14] had accepted the head football coaching position at the University of Pittsburgh. [15] Haywood was arrested in South Bend, Indiana on December 31, 2010, on felony domestic violence charges arising from a custody dispute, and was fired by Pittsburgh hours after being released on bond the next morning. [16] Defensive backs coach Lance Guidry will coach Miami University in the 2011 GoDaddy.com Bowl. [17] On December 31, 2010, Miami University hired Michigan State offensive coordinator Don Treadwell as its head coach. [18]

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  2. ↑ Doug Martin To Step Down Following Friday's Game With Ohio, Kent State University, 21 November 2010, archived from the original on 13 December 2010, retrieved 20 December 2010, Kent State University head football coach Doug Martin announced today that he is resigning following the Golden Flashes' game this Friday (Nov. 26) with Ohio in Dix Stadium. Martin informed Director of Athletics Joel Nielsen of his decision Sunday afternoon.
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  11. ↑ "Bylaw 18.7.2 Postseason Football Championship and Postseason Bowl Licensing." (PDF), 2010–11 NCAA Division I Manual, National Collegiate Athletic Association, pp. 316–17 Note that there is no provision in this rule that gives any preference to teams with seven or more wins over 6–6 teams.
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