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UMass Minutemen football
2024 UMass Minutemen football team
First season
1879
Athletic director
Ryan Bamford
Head coach
Don Brown 2nd season, 4–20 (.167)
Stadium
Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium (capacity: 17,000)
Field surface
FieldTurf
Location
Hadley, Massachusetts
NCAA division
Division I FBS
Conference
Independent
All-time record
577–624–50 (.481)
Bowl record
1–2 (.333)
Claimed national titles
1 (Div. I FCS): 1998
Conference titles
21
Rivalries
Boston College (rivalry) UConn (rivalry)
Consensus All-Americans
1
Current uniform
Colors
Maroon and white[1]
Fight song
Fight Mass
Mascot
Sam the Minuteman
Marching band
The Power and Class of New England
Outfitter
Adidas
Website
UMassAthletics.com
The UMass Minutemen football team represents the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The Minutemen compete as an FBS independent. Since 1965, their home games have been played at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium on the university's campus in Hadley, Massachusetts.
UMass began play in 1879[2] and have since appeared in three FCS National Championship games, winning the title in 1998. The Minutemen began a two-year Football Bowl Subdivision transition period in 2011, becoming bowl eligible in 2013. In March 2014, the Mid-American Conference (MAC) and UMass announced an agreement for the Minutemen to leave the conference after the 2015 season due to UMass declining an offer to become a full member of the conference. On February 29, 2024, the UMass athletics department announced they will rejoin the MAC as a full member, effective July 1st, 2025.[3]
The Minutemen have subsequently played as an independent through the 2019 season. As of late December 2019[update], the program's 12-game schedules through the 2022 season are fixed, 10 of 12 games are fixed for both 2023 and 2024, and at least three games per season are fixed out to 2028.[4]
UMass named Don Brown as their next head football coach on November 22, 2021 as his second stint as head coach for the Minutemen.[5]
^"University of Massachusetts Amherst Athletics Official Style Guide" (PDF). Retrieved July 4, 2021.
^"UMass Football History". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
^"University of Massachusetts Accepts Invitation to Join the Mid-American Conference As Full Member". University of Massachusetts Athletics. Retrieved March 1, 2024.
^"Future UMass Football Schedules". fbschedules.com. Retrieved December 25, 2019.
^"Massachusetts Football Welcomes Back Don Brown As Head Coach". umassathletics.com. Retrieved November 22, 2021.
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