Buffalo running back Jaret Patterson wanted to play football. Week by week passed after the MAC’s decision to cancel the fall season on Aug. 8, but college football continued on without the conference. Patterson was an instrumental voice in returning to play in a player-led movement on social media in September. On Wednesday night, that voice came to fruition.
“When I was on the outside watching the other conferences play, it sat bad with me,” Patterson said. “I felt like the MAC conference definitely deserved to play to show what we can do as a conference as a whole.