MAC Football Championship: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The MAC Football Championship is a football game between the winners of the East and West divisions of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) to determine the conference champion. The game has been played and aired on one of ESPN TV's family of networks since 5 December 1997, when the conference was first divided into divisions and since 2003 has been sponsored by Marathon Oil. The winner of the game is guaranteed a berth in a bowl game which the MAC has contractual obligations to field a team. Since 2004, the championship game has been played at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. Previously the game was held at campus sites. In 2000, 2001, and 2007, due to an unbalanced conference schedule, the team with best division record within each division was awarded that division's championship game berth. In other years, the teams with the best overall conference records received a berth.

Series details

• Title: MAC Football Championship
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1997-12-05
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: ESPN
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 180 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 9493

Cast and credited roles

• Anish Shroff — Play-by-Play Commentator
• Andre T. Ware — Football Analyst
• Paul Carcaterra — Sideline Reporter
• Roy Philpott — Play-by-Play Commentator
• Sam Acho — Analyst
• Taylor Davis — Sideline Reporter

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1997: premiered 1997-12-05; final listed air date 1997-12-05.
• Season 2015: premiered 2015-12-04; final listed air date 2015-12-04.
• Season 2016: premiered 2016-12-02; final listed air date 2016-12-02.
• Season 2017: premiered 2017-12-02; final listed air date 2017-12-02.
• Season 2018: premiered 2018-11-30; final listed air date 2018-11-30.
• Season 2019: premiered 2019-12-07; final listed air date 2019-12-07.
• Season 2020: premiered 2020-12-18; final listed air date 2020-12-18.
• Season 2021: premiered 2021-12-04; final listed air date 2021-12-04.
• Season 2022: premiered 2022-12-03; final listed air date 2022-12-03; episode order: 1.
• Season 2023: premiered 2023-12-02; final listed air date 2023-12-02; episode order: 1.
• Season 2024: premiered 2024-12-07; final listed air date 2024-12-07.
• Season 2025: premiered 2025-12-06; final listed air date 2025-12-06; episode order: 1.
• Season 2026: premiered 2026-12-05; final listed air date 2026-12-05; episode order: 1.

Source and licence

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