Its league games are part adjective, part noun.
But they are synonymous with midweek college football and a cult following.
MACtion.
Also in the Mid-American Conference? Excellent coaching, scrappy programs and a penchant for any number of Davids knocking off Goliath.
Already it's happened this year when first-year Ohio head coach Brian Smith guided the Bobcats past West Virginia in the Mountaineers' Rich Rod Redux.
A year ago it was Northern Illinois going into hallowed Notre Dame Stadium and seeing its Thomas Hammock-led Huskies dispatch the eventual College Football Playoffs runners-up in the Irish.
There are myriad other examples.
On the heels of last week's look at the Sun Belt Conference, and opening the series a few weeks back with an in-depth examination of the ACC before following that up with extensive depth of information on the SEC, as well as our recent looks at the Big 12 and Big Ten conferences, the Inside Scoop series continues this week the latest from the Mid-American Conference.
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Information and opinion are based on discussions with coaches, agents and administrators in the conference and throughout college football.