2014 — The Correction

2014 is a losing-side chapter for UMass. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 3-9
Final Result Losing season
AP Final — post-bowls
SP+ -4.8 last-week
Era The MAC Experiment
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
L vs Bost Col 7-30 L vs Colorado 38-41 L @ Vander 31-34 L @ Penn St 7-48 L vs Bowl Gre 42-47 L @ Miam (OH 41-42 W @ Kent Sta 40-17 W vs East Mic 36-14 L @ Toledo 35-42 W vs Ball Sta 24-10 L @ Akron 6-30 L vs Buffalo 21-41

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2014.

Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2014 season's largest margin: UMass 40, Kent State 17. A 23-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: UMass 7, Penn State 48. A 41-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Rise as one."
— UMass fanbase voice · 2014· synthesized
What It Meant

2014 sits in UMass's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.