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Looks like the current deal expires after the 2026-27 school year.

They’ve actually been a fast riser early in the season. But I’m sure they’ll settle in the low 300s

Thanks for this! Been trying to figure out the best way to watch and definitely not signing up for ESPN Unlimited. PS: Anyone with YouTube TV make sure to claim your $20 off vouchers. There's also a $10 off for 6 months promo in the "manage plan" settings.

Iona beat Kansas City 105-91. They’re slowly creeping up the ranking up to 190 in kenpom.

8,100 and 8,900 announced attendance for the last two PCCC games at Infocision.

That surprises me. Although I can see Buffalo being more of a football and hockey school.

Up to three!! 🦅💩🚽💪🏽

Very true, Akron can't drop much. Like I've said, I expect more than last week. Side note...maybe we keep it to 7 PM kickoffs in the next MACtion contract, given there's no central time zone teams anymore?

This is actually where Akron has a small advantage. It's attendance from Saturday to Tuesday games can't drop by 10,000.

A very good article. Guess it depends what money ESPN is offering on a new deal to keep MAC attendance way down for the last of the season.

Good article about the origin of weekday MACtion games: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timcasey/2025/11/11/how-the-mid-american-conference-and-espn-made-maction-mid-week-football-popular/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOAYThleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEemo1YlrZA2EszPo3QuBDsIR2ejxJkA2It2G9NFoysihcLW258CHJJ9SWwHNQ_aem_YlVC2XEkdt_RBvARUvnIoA

Their issue was picking fruit one too many times from the Bobby Hurley/Nate Oats coaching tree. Eventually, the fruit soured with Whitesell and it killed all the momentum with their program. This is the exact reason why hiring Groce was such a big hire for Akron to sustain what KD had built. Canada's South Campus doesn't have a very strong athletics backing, so unless they strike gold with coaching hires (they've done well in football, too), they'll always find themselves with a middle of the MAC ceiling at best.

Kent has NIL, too, which I only know about thanks to the series of Pinky's Pathetic Promos this offseason where we saw a sad clown beg for money essentially after being rejected by Fordham (allegedly).

I don't think they have much NIL, which is one of their problems. I think only Akron, Miami, UMass, and maybe OU have money. I feel all the other schools just spend on football.

Maybe Buffalo is a good example that NIL alone can’t buy you a successful program. I have to think that university has some wealthy alumni.

Hell, just protect the rivalry games. There is no reason for Akron-Kent to be played on a Tuesday evening at 7:30 in November. I'm fine with it against literally any other opponent, but this should have been a Saturday noon kickoff. I believe it would have been a decent crowd and generated at least some mild buzz for the program locally. Instead, we will probably get a bit more than last week, which was downright embarrassing.

I anticipate a close game through three quarters with Akron having at least a seven point advantage. In the fourth, Akron pulls away with points off of a turnover winning by 14. The only reason it's this close is Kent scores with under two minutes remaining to avoid total humiliation.

that should never be on our schedule to begin with.

I'd be surprised if we don't continue the pooch kickoffs that we saw last week against UMass.

Can’t give up any special teams TD’s. They have a really good kick returner that has taken a few to the house - and we’ve given up a few this year. Have to keep it away from him!

If you exclude the non-D1 schools.

I can’t believe Buffalo is currently the weakest team on our schedule.

Back to the game. We SHOULD win; we are the more talented and experienced team. This is our game to lose via turnovers, penalties, and special team blunders. If we play complimentary football like we have the last few weeks we should be good. But you never know unfortunately. Rivalry games are tight for a reason.

I'm not sure the requirement ever formally went away, but it's certainly not been enforced for quite awhile. Not sure getting booted out of FBS is the worst thing ever, but that's an entirely different discussion.

Hard to take college football attendance numbers seriously. I'm not sure if it's still a requirement, but it used to be every 2 or 3 years a school had to average 15k fans to remain FBS compliant. You would see schools, like Akron, buy 10s of thousands of tickets from their athletic department to remain compliant. That's why if you go back and look you will see Akron averaged 15k fans 1 year, but average 8k the next.