PredictionMachine.com played the upcoming season 50,000 times. They predict that Toledo and Miami will be the best MAC teams, at #70 and #73, but Northern Illinois will beat Temple in the MAC Championship, 29-26. MAC bowl participants will be Toledo (losing the Humanitarian Bowl to Nevada, 27-23 -- apparently the computer missed the memo that it's now the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl), Central Michigan (losing the Poinsettia Bowl to San Diego State, 36-17), Northern Illinois (losing the Little Caesar's Bowl to Iowa, 31-24), Miami (losing the BBVA Compass Bowl to Syracuse 21-20), and Temple (winning the GoDaddy.com Bowl over Arkansas State, 29-24).