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MAC Football Upsets Rated By Difficulty Of NES Video Game Feats

Kent State taking down Alabama might be harder than defeating a roomful of Darknuts using only bombs.
Kent State taking down Alabama might be harder than defeating a roomful of Darknuts using only bombs.

Fans of BCS teams see the MAC and glean three truths:

  1. In November they provide college football on the weekends
  2. They're always good for an upset or two, possibly on a ranked team with BCS conference championship hopes.
  3. "Hey, there's that guy that transferred."

And lo, that second item happened last year as well. Toledo over Purdue, Temple over UConn (of the Fiesta Bowl UConns!) and NIU over Minnesota were the MAC-on-BCS wins of record.

I count a total of 38 nonconference games against FBS competition. Between potential upsets are are all going to be playing NES games. This is a rule which should not be questioned. And in the progression of NES game playing, it's possible that you may undertake a challenge which goes beyond the linear structure of the plot.

This is not unlike a MAC team playing in front of 80,000 fans somewhere. You're probably going to fail several times until you get really good at it. The difference is there is no six-figure payout. Which is why I'm doing this instead of being a professional Dragon Warrior player. Such will be the dream.

BEATING RIVER CITY RANSOM ON HARD WITHOUT USING ACRO CIRCUS
September 1 — BGSU at Idaho
September 3 — OHIO at New Mexico State
September 10 – Louisiana at Kent State
September 17 — Wyoming at BGSU
September 17 — Marshall at OHIO
September 24 — Army at Ball State
October 8 — FIU at Akron
October 8 — Army at Miami

BEAT MEGA MAN II WITHOUT USING A CONTINUE
September 3 — Indiana vs. Ball State at Lucas Oil Stadium
September 17 — Miami at Minnesota
September 24 — Toledo at Syracuse
September 24 — OHIO at Rutgers
September 24 — WMU at Illinois
October 8 — CMU at NC State

BEAT METROID WITH ONE ENERGY TANK
September 10 — NIU at Kansas
September 10 — CMU at Kentucky    
September 17 — Akron at Cincinnati
September 17 — Kent State at Kansas State
September 24 — Temple at Maryland
October 1 — Cincinnati at Miami

GETTING THROUGH ONE DAMN ROOM OF SHADOWGATE
September 3 — WMU at Michigan
September 3 — Buffalo at Pittsburgh
September 10 — Ball State at USF
September 17 — Penn State at Temple
September 24 — UConn at Buffalo
October 1 — Buffalo at Tennessee
October 1 — WMU at Connecticut

BEATING LEGEND OF ZELDA SWORDLESS:

September 3 — Miami at Missouri
September 17 — EMU at Michigan
September 17 — Wisconsin vs. NIU at Soldier Field
September 24 — CMU at Michigan State
September 24 — EMU at Penn State
October 1 — BGSU at West Virginia

BUILDING A BASEBALL STARS TEAM FULL OF 90-RATED PLAYERS
September 3 — Akron at Ohio State
September 3 — Kent State at Alabama
September 10 — Toledo at Ohio State
September 16 — Boise State at Toledo
October 1 — Ball State at Oklahoma