FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts is coming to the Mid-American conference.
The school says its football team, currently part of the lower-tier Championship Subdivision, says it will join the MAC starting with the 2012 season.
The year after that, the Minutemen will be eligible to play in the conference title game and bowls.
In 2011, they’ll stay in the Colonial Athletic Association, which they last won in 2007. The Minutemen won’t be eligible for the postseason, however.
The Minutemen will play home games at the home of the NFL’s Patriots, 90 miles from its campus in Amherst.
Most MAC schools are in the Midwest, largely Ohio and Michigan. Buffalo and Temple, from Philadelphia, are also in the league.
