The 2017 season's largest margin: UMass 55, Georgia Southern 20. A 35-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2017 — The Correction
2017 is a losing-side chapter for UMass. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Andrew FordQB2,924 passing yards
- Ross ComisQB646 passing yards
- Marquis YoungRB982 rushing yards
- Bilal AllyRB371 rushing yards
- Andy IsabellaWR1,020 receiving yards
- Adam BrenemanTE764 receiving yards
- Sadiq PalmerWR518 receiving yards
- Bryton BarrLB105 tackles
- Steve CasaliLB80 tackles
- Jesse MonteiroDB78 tackles
- Da'Sean DowneyDL6 sacks
- Ali Ali-MusaDL4 sacks
Season leaders, 2017.
The season's deepest loss: UMass 45, Florida International 63. A 18-point margin the season is remembered by.
"Rise as one."
2017 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.