It’s hard to believe it, but we’re already halfway through the 2021 college football regular season. With six weeks in the books, every MAC team has battled two conference opponents and taken the field six times in total. Right now, parity is a defining feature of the MAC with eight of the league’s 12 teams sitting at 1-1 in conference play. Six games in, 11 of 12 MAC teams have at least two wins and all 12 have at least two losses to their name.
Before we get that seventh data point on each team, we assess all 12 MAC programs at the season’s midway point, factoring in preseason expectations as well as current on-field performance:
Akron Zips (2-4, 1-1 MAC)
2021 Midseason Grade: C+
Only eight times this year has an FBS team lost by 50 points or greater.