The 2013 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS football season as a member of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference. The team was coached by Charley Molnar in his second year and played its home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
The 2013 season marked the team's second season as a member of the MAC, and also marked the first season in which the Minutemen were eligible for the conference championship as well as post-season bowl play. For the second straight year the Minutemen finished the season with an overall record of 1–11 with a Conference record of 1–7 which placed them in 6th place in the MAC East Division. At the end of the season Tackle Anthony Dima, a senior, was honored as an All-MAC Third Team selection. Molnar was later fired on December 26 after a second consecutive 1–11 season. He was replaced by Mark Whipple.
Recruits
Schedule
Transfers In Player Position Year Previous School Ricardo Miller WR/TE Senior Michigan Justin Anderson DE/DT Senior Maryland David Osei OL Senior Rutgers Note: Miller, Anderson and Osei were immediately eligible to play the 2013 season without sitting out one season per NCAA eligibility rules. All three athletes achieved their undergraduate degrees and still had one season of eligibility left. They are all enrolled as graduate students in the UMass Graduate School of Education.
Game summaries
@ Wisconsin
Maine
@ Kansas State
Vanderbilt
@ Bowling Green
Miami (OH)
@ Buffalo
Western Michigan
Northern Illinois
Akron
@ Central Michigan
@ Ohio
Team players selected in the 2014 NFL draft NFL Draftees Name Position Round Pick NFL team Ref. Rob Blanchflower Tight End 7 230 Pittsburgh Steelers
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