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Established
1879 (145 years old)

Sport
American Football

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Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium
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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

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Minutemen

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NCAA Division 1

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25/11 UMass 18 - 31 UConn
18/11 Liberty 49 - 25 UMass
04/11 UMass 31 - 21 Merrimack
28/10 Army 14 - 21 UMass
14/10 Penn State 63 - 0 UMass

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The UMass Minutemen football team represents the University of Massachusetts in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). Massachusetts is the fourth oldest program currently in FBS. The Minutemen currently compete as an FBS independent.

UMass began play in 1879 and have since appeared in three FCS National Championship games, winning the title in 1998. The Minutemen began a two-year Football Bowl Subdivision transition period in 2011, becoming bowl eligible in 2013. In March 2014, the Mid-American Conference and UMass announced an agreement for the Minutemen to leave the conference after the 2015 season due to UMass declining an offer to become a full member of the conference. In the agreement between the MAC and the university, there was a contractual clause that had UMass playing in the MAC as a football-only member for two more seasons if UMass declined a full membership offer. UMass announced that it would look for a "more suitable conference" for the team. Possibilities included becoming independent or joining the American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, or the Sun Belt Conference.

In September 2014, UMass announced that they would become independent beginning with the 2016 season. The Minutemen have subsequently played as an independent through the 2019 season. As of late December 2019, the program's 12-game schedules through the 2022 season are fixed, 10 of 12 games are fixed for both 2023 and 2024, and at least three games per season are fixed out to 2028.

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Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Hadley, Massachusetts on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

It was home for all games for the Massachusetts Minutemen football team through the 2011 season. The football team played half their home games here with the other half at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough from 2014 until 2018, and McGuirk Stadium has hosted all home games since. The stadium is also home to the UMass Minutewomen lacrosse team.

The stadium is named for Warren P. McGuirk, who was the UMass Athletic Director from 1948 to 1971. Although it is located within the University's campus, which is almost entirely in Amherst, the stadium itself lies just across the border in Hadley.

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