Tier 1
1. NIU (2-0 MAC with road win at Toledo)
2. Kent St. (2-0 MAC with win vs. Buffalo)
3. WMU (1-1 MAC with best non-conference wins)

Tier 2
4. Ball State (1-1 MAC with road win at WMU)
5. Toledo (1-1 MAC with road win at BSU)
6. EMU (1-1 MAC with win vs. Miami)
7. Miami (1-1 MAC with win vs. CMU)

Tier 3
8. CMU (1-1 MAC but barely beat Ohio)
9. Ohio (1-1 MAC with win vs. Akron)
10. Akron (1-1 MAC with win vs. BGSU)

Tier 4 (winless in MAC play)
11. Buffalo
12. BGSU


Just my thoughts. Everyone is free to rank them how they see them. I think Buffalo and BGSU may end up better than 11 and 12 but I can't rank them above any of the 1-1 teams when they are winless in conference play.

Pretty good just swap WMU and Ball St. They just dominated us at home. They were clearly the better team in the trenches.

I think Miami's season depends highly on QB Brett Gabbert's health. He missed the first game of the season at UC and our offense sucked. He missed the game on Saturday at EMU and we never scored a TD. The other 4 games he only played a part of each one. He does raise our level of offensive quite a bit. The defense and kicking game are pretty strong. We gave CMU 17 and EMU 13 in our first two games.