The 2018 UMass Minutemen football team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. This was the fifth year of head coach Mark Whipple's second stint at UMass and 11th year overall. The Minutemen divided their home schedule between two stadiums. Five home games were played at the UMass campus at Warren McGuirk Alumni Stadium with one home game at Gillette Stadium. This was UMass's third year as an independent. They finished the season 4–8.
On November 21, head coach Mark Whipple resigned. He finished with a record of 16–44 in the five years of his second stint as head coach and 65–70 in his eleven overall seasons. On December 3, the school hired Florida State offensive coordinator Walt Bell for the head coaching job.
UMass wide receiver Andy Isabella was named a consensus All-American at year's end.
Preseason
Award watch lists Listed in the order that they were released Davey O'Brien AwardAndrew FordQBSRDoak Walker AwardMarquis YoungRBSRFred Biletnikoff AwardAndy IsabellaWRSRButkus AwardBryton BarrLBSRPaul Hornung AwardAndy IsabellaWR/KRSRWuerffel TrophyAndrew FordQBSRAndy IsabellaWRSRManning AwardAndrew FordQBSR
Schedule
Schedule source: ☆All Eleven Sports broadcasts will be simulcast on NESN or NESN+.
Game summaries
Duquesne
The Minutemen's game against Duquesne was the first of the 2018 college football season, kicking off 90 minutes before Prairie View A&M–Rice.
At Boston College
At Georgia Southern
At FIU
Charlotte
At Ohio
South Florida
Coastal Carolina
At UConn
Liberty
BYU
At Georgia
Players drafted into the NFL
2 62 Andy Isabella WR Arizona Cardinals
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