![]() The MAC went from being a regional conference to being a national conference because of the midweek exposure.” “To be honest, when the midweeks first started, they were done strictly to give the league more exposure,” said Steinbrecher, who became commissioner in 2009. The MAC has been playing midweek games since 1999, but it is only in its most recent contract with ESPN that it started to make serious money. Once you start playing the midweeks, it gets harder and harder to make sure everyone is playing on the same rest, week in and week out.” “But I guess we’d been headed in this direction for a while. . . ![]() ![]() “Ending up with no Saturday games this season wasn’t intentional,” MAC Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher said Wednesday. On Tuesday of this week, there were two MAC games. The last 23 games on the league’s regular season schedule will be played on a weekday - although the final three games, played the day after Thanksgiving, are part of a holiday weekend. That is especially true in November and even more true in the Mid-American Conference. Nowadays, the slogan would be more accurate if it went like this: “Almost every day - and night - in the fall means college football!” For years, if college football had a slogan, it was, "Saturday afternoon in the fall means college football!"
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