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Three For Thursday [MAC Championship]


Dr Z

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  1. 1. Who will win?

    • Zips
    • Rockets by 17 or less
    • Rockets by 18 or more
  2. 2. Who will have the most yards rushing in the game?

    • Terry Swanson
    • Shakif Seymour
    • Art Thompkins
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    • Manny Morgan
    • Van Edwards
    • Kato Nelson
    • Other
  3. 3. How many TDs will Logan Woodside throw?

  4. 4. 🔥Bonus🔥 Announced attendance?

    • Less than 10,000
    • 10,000 to 14,999
    • 15,000 to 19,999
    • 20,000 to 25,999
    • 26,000+

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Two years ago the Zips were fortunate enough to get matched up against one of only three teams that received a bowl bid that we had a chance to beat.  Hopefully the beat down we take in the MACC will put us in a similar position this season.  Hope I'm wrong about the MACC, but the spread at this point is 21.5.

Go Zips

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9 minutes ago, Zipmeister said:

Two years ago the Zips were fortunate enough to get matched up against one of only three teams that received a bowl bid that we had a chance to beat.  Hopefully the beat down we take in the MACC will put us in a similar position this season. 

 

I have 2 questions:

 

1) How did you arrive at the conclusion that there were only 3 bowl teams in 2015 that we could have beaten.

2) Why would you want to play a "nobody" in a bowl game, when it's probably our best opportunity all year for national exposure?

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Lots of interest in Ames for this game with so many coaches from Toledo and northeastern Ohio.  However, I suspect most of us will be cheering for Akron because it only helps us in our bowl selection to have beaten the MAC champ.  

 

:champs:  :thumb:  :)

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17 hours ago, skip-zip said:

 

I have 2 questions:

 

1) How did you arrive at the conclusion that there were only 3 bowl teams in 2015 that we could have beaten.

2) Why would you want to play a "nobody" in a bowl game, when it's probably our best opportunity all year for national exposure?

Re question 1:

First I eliminated the other MAC bowl teams since no bowl would pair Akron with one of them.  Next I evaluated the win/loss record, Sagarin ratings, and other proprietary data data for all the rest of the teams participating in a bowl and concluded we would lose to:

Air Force,

Alabama,

Appy State,

Arizona,

Arizona State,

Arkansas,

Arkansas State,

Auburn,

Baylor,

Boise State,

BYU,

Cal,

Cincinnati,

Clemson,

Colorado State,

Connecticut,

Duke,

Florida,

Florida State,

Georgia,

Georgia Southern,

Houston,

Indiana,

Iowa,

Kansas State,

Louisiana Tech,

Louisville,

LSU,

Marshall,

Memphis,

Miami,

Michigan,

Michigan State,

Middle Tenn,

Minnesota,

Mississippi State,

Navy,

NC State,

Nebraska,

Nevada,

New Mexico,

North Carolina,

Northwestern,

Notre Dame,

Ohio State,

Oklahoma,

Oklahoma State,

Ole Miss,

Oregon,

Penn State,

Pitt,

San Diego State,

South Florida,

Southern Miss,

Stanford,

TCU,

Temple,

Tennessee,

Texas A&M,

Texas Tech,

Tulsa,

UCLA,

USC,

Utah,

Virginia Tech,

Washington,

Washington State,

West Virginia,

Western KY, and

Wisconsin.

On the other hand, I concluded that we had a chance of beating: San Jose State and Georgia State (who ended up playing each other in the AutoNation Cure Bowl, as well as Utah State.

 

Re question 2: The Zips game against Utah State was televised nationally on ESPN.  We got a win and some national recognition, perhaps not as much as if we got pounded by THE osu, but I'll  take the win over nobody Utah State.

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