The 140th season of Massachusetts football kicks off against New Mexico State at 7 p.m. ET on Saturday, Aug. 26 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, at Aggie Memorial Stadium in a “Week 0” game that will be broadcast on ESPN.

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The UMass roster this season – the 12th FBS season for UMass and its eighth as an independent – features 25 student-athletes from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the Minutemen added four quarterbacks in the offseason, including redshirt junior transfer Taisun Phommachanh from Georgia Tech/Clemson and redshirt senior transfer Carlos Davis from Western Carolina.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, native and former four-star recruit, Phommachanh appeared in two games for Georgia Tech last season and in 13 games for Clemson from 2019-21. Davis played in seven games for Western Carolina in 2022 while compiling a 149.59 passer rating, throwing for 16 touchdowns while also finishing as the team's third-leading rusher with 221 yards on the ground. Junior Brady Olson, a Bellingham, Massachusetts, native, is the team’s lone returning quarterback.

This season’s schedule features six games at McGuirk Stadium, with the home slate starting Sept. 9 vs. Miami University (Ohio) at 3:30 p.m. Other highlights this season include the annual Band Day game Oct. 7 versus Toledo, the Homecoming Game Nov. 4 versus Merrimack and Senior Day against UConn on Nov. 25. Road matchups for the Minutemen include a battle on “The Plains” against Auburn on Sept. 2 and a visit to “Happy Valley” against Penn State on Oct. 14.

Single game and season tickets are available now for all home games and select away games, and group tickets can be ordered by calling 1-866-UMASS-TIX.