The Mid-American Conference has decided to spice things up this football season.
The MAC, one of the more entertaining Group of 5 conferences in the college football featuring mid-major teams, has 22 games scheduled this season against Power 5 Conference teams.
The Group of 5 conferences besides the MAC are the American, Conference USA, Sun Belt and Mountain West. The Power 5 Conferences are the SEC, ACC, Pac 12, Big Ten and Big 12.
At Tuesday's MAC Media Days, league commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said that every time this season a MAC team beats a Power 5 team that it will fly a specially-made pirate flag on campus (presumably at their stadiums).