PROVIDENCE JOURNAL - Bryant Faces Test at UMass

October 24, 2008

PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

College football preview -- Bryant faces test at UMass
By Mike Szostak, Journal Sports Writer

Their records are 4-3, and they each put 11 players on the field. That's where similarities between Bryant University football and University of Massachusetts football end.

Bryant is playing its first season of Division I football. UMass played in the first NCAA Division I-AA championship game 30 years ago, won the I-AA national championship 10 years ago and played in the I-AA national championship game against Appalachian State two years ago.

Bryant is loaded with Division II players trying hard to make the grade at a Division I entry level. UMass is loaded with Division I players trying to make the grade in the Colonial Athletic Association, the toughest conference in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision.

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