September 5 - Kansas State (A)
September 12 - Albany (H)
September 19 - URI (H)*
September 26 - Stony Brook (H)
October 3 - BYE
October 10 - Delaware (A)*
October 17 - UNH (H)*
October 24 - Richmond (A)*
October 31 - Maine (A)*
November 7 - Northeastern (H)*
November 14 - James Madison (H)*
November 21 - Hofstra (A)*
Still not sure how the Albany game got changed, as we played at UMass last year too. But some arrangement has been made to keep the game at McGuirk.
Reading some posts on another board by UMass fans, 60Minuteman said it best in describing the schedule for this year...
The Holy Cross series is on hiatus this season because HC had too many commitments for 2009 when the series was re-started in 2007. HC will be back on UMass's schedule in 2010 and 2011. As for Harvard, they refuse to come to Amherst. In fact, of the 22 games Harvard and UMass have played, 21 were played at Harvard. I'm not even sure they'd be willing play us again in Cambridge, but if we did add another away game without a return date, we'd have to drop the FBS game.
Who else do you want? Syracuse won't play us. Rutgers won't play anyone from the CAA again after losing to UNH. BC is on the schedule for 2011. UConn is supposedly on the schedule for 2012. Michigan has been rumored as a possibility for 2010. K-State is a bit of an odd game, but they're BCS and pay a large guarantee, unlike a service academy or MAC opponent. Albany and Stony Brook are the best remaining FCS programs in bus range, unless an Ivy can be coaxed out. This trio of non-conference games is the best UMass can do to reduce the costs of the football program while remaining in playoff contention.
