2014 UMass Minutemen football team


The 2014 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was their first year with head coach Mark Whipple, who returned after 10 years coaching in the NFL. The Minutemen divided their home schedule between two stadiums. Three home games were played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The other three were played on the UMass campus at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium, which reopened after a renovation to bring the facility up to FBS standards. This season was UMass's third in the Mid-American Conference in the East Division. They finished the season 3–9, 3–5 in MAC play to finish in a tie for fourth place in the East Division.

Schedule

Game summaries

Boston College

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–192011BC, 45–17

Colorado

Vanderbilt

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–22013Vandy, 24–7

Penn State

Bowling Green

Overall recordLast meetingResult
0–22013BGSU, 28–7

Miami (OH)

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–12013UMass, 17–10

Kent State

Eastern Michigan

Toledo

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–21999Toledo, 24–3

Ball State

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–11988Ball, 44–17

Akron

Overall recordLast meetingResult
1–12013Akron, 14–13

Buffalo

Overall recordLast meetingResult
5–62013Buff, 32–3