Last week was a league-defining one, as the various programs of the Mid-American Conference have started to define themselves into tiers of performance, with the cream of the crop (and the bottom of the barrel) polarizing themselves from the rest.
The margins in the middle of the table are only getting narrower somehow. Highlighting this is the difference between tenth place and sixth, which currently stands at only 1.4 points. That’ll happen when some unexpected results and adjustments to long-term projections force a shake-up which has propelled at least one surprise team into the stratosphere of MAC relevance.