Yea but it's still better than any Marshall OOC win. Probably better than any Marshall win period. Their schedule sucks this year. That is the problem. C-USA is better than the American this year but ECU scheduled VT, UNC, and South Carolina while Marshall scheduled the MAC.
It shouldn't matter for this year but if I am Marshall, I start circulating last years box score vs ECU. Apart from another ECU loss, that's their only chance.
I heard they were stuck by teams (like ECU) moving over to the AAC, and couldn't get any better teams to play them in short notice. I don't know if that's true though.