The 1990 UMass Minutemen football team represented the

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in the

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as a member of the

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. The team was coached by

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and played its home games at

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. The Minutemen made their second playoff appearance in three years, but would lose in the first round to future conference foe William & Mary. It would be the last playoff appearance for UMass until the 1998 National Championship season. UMass finished the season with a record of 8–2–1 overall and 7–1 in conference play.

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