If it's Wednesday, we're rounding up your recommended weekly allowance of piping-hot divisional MACtion. Here's what's on hand to entertain you through the end of Humpday.

• Buffalo (3-7) at Miami, Ohio (1-10)
You wouldn't know it to look at them know, but Buffalo used to be somebody. Was it really just last year the Bulls knocked off undefeated Ball State in the MAC title game, and Turner Gill was the trendy name to bandy about for bigger and better head coaching gigs around the country? Yeah, that was last year: The '09 iteration of Buffalo is 3-7, with one conference win, which may be enough to take the bloom off Gill's rose as the hot commodity in his profession, but in the miserable MAC East still isn't enough knock the Bulls all the way down to the division cellar.

No, that dubious honor belongs to 1-10 Miami (Ohio), which we would resent for making us do the parentheses thing except that we genuinely feel bad for the RedHawks at this point. They were shut out twice, 42-0 and 48-0 at the hands of Kentucky and Boise State, respectively, to open the season, and rank dead last nationally in turnover margin. Quarterback Zac Dysert has decent passing numbers, generally (he's put up four 300-yard games), but his 15 interceptions in nine games is one of the highest numbers in the country, and he's been sacked more times than any other quarterback. The offensive lines struggles are also apparent in the ground game: The RedHawks' two leading rushers are Dysert and Thomas Merriweather, and neither's season total clears 300 yards.

In other Z-themed quarterback news, Buffalo's Zach Maynard is having a similarly frustrating year. Although he'll also likely come close to the 3,000-yard mark by year's end, he's put up 13 interceptions, including two apiece in three of the last four games. But the Bulls at least have a faint semblance of a ground attack against Miami's 100th-ranked run defense, which should serve them well with leading receiver Naaman Roosevelt on ice with a knee injury.

• Central Michigan (8-2) at Ball State (1-9)
This is one of those games that looked a lot better in August than it does now. Ball State is, as we are so often pointing out on Mid-Major Mondays, bewilderingly, bafflingly bad. Whatever magic it was that led the Cardinals to an undefeated regular season last year deserted them just in time for the aforementioned MAC title game, wherein they were thoroughly pantsed by Buffalo, before being thoroughly pantsed by Tulsa in the bowl game. Fast forward a season, and last year's dominant Cardinals are this year's doormat, with only a two-point victory over 0-10 Eastern Michigan standing between them and a winless 2009.

Five of Ball State's games have been decided by a touchdown or less, but this is not a matchup that portends a respectable evening. The Cards' 109th-ranked scoring offense doesn't have a sliver of a chance of keeping up with Central Michigan and the all-purpose war machine that is Chippewa quarterback Dan LeFevour. The Rust Belt's answer to Tim Tebow and Mid-Major Monday's unofficial hopeless Heisman candidate of choice, LeFevour can beat them with his arm (over 2,000 yards passing for the fourth straight season) or with his legs (13 rushing touchdowns to date). He's also playing for masters who proved in last Wednesday's 56-28 rout over Toledo that they're not averse to running up the score. This one could and will get ugly, and it will happen quickly, but who doesn't appreciate a little blood on the turf on a cold Wednesday night?

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Buffalo and Miami kick off at 6 p.m. Eastern on ESPNU; Central Michigan and Ball State kick off at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2.
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