Say what you will about it, but the MAC has seen the least amount of shakeup of any conference. Off the top of my head, and I may have missed one, I recall Marshall leaving for CUSA, and the MAC inviting Buffalo. Other than that, the same schools have been together for decades and decades.
In football, when the dust settled, Kent State got the closest to being this year's BcS buster.
There is something to be said about stability.