2024:
Pittsburgh L 55-24
Tennessee L 71-0
Penn State L 56-0
2023:
Central Florida L 56-6
Arkansas L 28-6
Fresno State L 53-10
2022:
Washington L 45-20
Oklahoma L 33-3
Georgia L 39-22
2021:
Texas A&M L 41-10
Iowa L 30-7
Maryland L 37-16
2020:
Penn State
Kentucky
Alabama
Covid year so they didn’t play these games but that’s what was originally scheduled
2019:
Arizona State L 30-7
Auburn L 55-16
Wisconsin L 48-0
2018:
Illinois L 31-24
Penn State L 63-10
Ole Miss L 38-17
2017:
Clemson L 56-3
Louisville L 42-3
2016:
Penn State L 33-13
Alabama L 48-0
2015:
Illinois L 52-3
Minnesota L 10-7
That’s Kent State’s out of conference schedule the last decade. The MAC plays a 4 game out of conference schedule with an 8 game conference schedule. They lost every single one of those games & as you can see they’ve gotten more aggressive in recent years with taking on three P4 teams a year.
They put three auto-losses on the schedule every year. So it’s hard to build momentum. It’s part of the reason why their previous head coach left. Sean Lewis was actually doing a pretty decent job there it just didn’t look like it in the overall win/loss record.