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Balls in midseason form.

Regardless, it's clear that LSU has no issue paying for and locking in talented players.

Exhibitions games Johnson- started in loss to Missouri. Played second most minutes with 23. Shot 5-11 to be second leading scorer at 14 points. Also tied with rebounding lead at 6, 2 assists, 3 TOs, a block and steal. Okonkwo-didn’t start but played 15 minutes. Was 3-3 for 6 points, 6 rebounds, 3 TOs, 1 block

While I agree beating Purdue would be a big boost, I penciled it in as a loss because beating them is unrealistic. Then again so is going 30-3.

I know the system does not favor us as there is a circular loop with the Net system. But we have tough games besides Purdue. Road games: Miami,Ohio,Kent state,Tulane, SB challenge Neutral games: Murray state, Iona, Oregon State, Yale Here is what qualifies as a Q2 win neutral court: RPI 50-100 Road games: RPI 76-135 I could see some of these games play into a Q2 game.

No. The weather is cold and he is getting up to microwave the leftover sauerkraut balls his wife left in the refrigerator.

They would have to win the Perdue Game AND hope they go deep in the Big Ten(being Ranked at the time) Torment AND The Zips make it to the Title Game AND run the table being ranked in the process getting there.....

It's just you. Purdue will probably be the only Q1 win opportunity. There might be another 2-3 Q2 win opportunities on the schedule. Most of these games that we feel are quality matchups will likely be Q3 games, which the committee doesn't care about (unless you lose) when picking at-large teams. Akron would have to go something absurd like 30-3 IMO to get an at-large. That would pretty much be 1 loss to Purdue and another in the MAC tournament. That would leave just 1 other hiccup the rest of the way.

Honestly no. We would have to run the Table and Lose in the MAC Championship Game to a ranked team(and be ranked ourselves)to even have a shot at a At Large. I honestly believe that the MAC is somewhere Between the Atlantic Sun and the NEC in stature as far as the Committee is concerned.....

Great article by Zipped up. I totally agree. I think this team is on paper better than last year but the MAC seems to be much better than last season. its going to be tough. Is it just me or does it feel like we have enough good games to get an at large if we win 25 games?

Even then you would think that they could find 3K random Football Junkies that would show up to the gate and buy a ticket....

This is very well deserved. Congratulations, Stefan !!!!

Oh no...a prop bet on college sports. Guys in FBI windbreakers are racing towards Clarke's house as we speak!

I will say Groce goes with 2 players this year. Tavari and Amani.

I live in Youngstown and I'm a Zips season ticket holder but I don't really want to pay $20 for an exhibition game so I'll be relying on info reported here. 🤣

Tomorrow night is the Tip-off Reception. Every year, one player is on the stage with Groce. The last couple have been Nate and Enrique. Who will it be this year? My bet is Tavari.

RPI Rank 14 Akron 104 Marquette 45 Creighton

Oggi is really 6'9"?? Can't wait!!! 😁

I would amend this to say that recruiting rankings only exist to stimulate interest in the off season and to suck a few more dollars out of the few fans who live and die with college football and have lesser or no interest in college basketball or professional spring and summer sports.

Yes, there is still value in continuity. College football is not much different than the NFL now. The NFL teams that most often succeed are those who draft well, can retain their talent, and then look towards free agency (in this case the portal) to just plug a few missing gaps. Also, like NFL draft classes, you can't really grade how good they are until 3 or 4 later. Recruiting rankings are more educated guesses than a factual guarantee.

To me, this is more of a statement about the dangers of the transfer portal and believing recruiting rankings.

The margin of error is really thin in the SEC now that Texas and Oklahoma joined. There are at least 7 programs (Texas A&M, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and LSU) who expect to be in the playoffs every year. There are another handful that expect to make the playoffs every 2 or 3 years. Then you randomly have programs like Kentucky or Vanderbilt who can surprisingly be good at times. When you consider only about 5 of these schools can make the playoffs each year there is going to be a lot of disappointment. The B1G is a different animal. In recent years only OSU, Oregon, and Penn State have been consistent top 10-15 programs. With Franklin gone who knows what happens with Penn State. That makes it easier for a program like Indiana to emerge. Maybe at some point USC and UM will get their sh** together and live up to their blue blood names, but right now it's much easier to succeed in the B1G vs the SEC.

It's very common.

Tough to predict a record because I think this team could beat last year's team, but I think it's a tougher OOC schedule and the MAC is up a bit from last year.

They had the top-ranked transfer portal class coming into 2025 along with no lower than a top-12 recruiting class each of the last three seasons: 2024 (7th), 2023 (5th), 2022 (12th) The problem isn't getting talent or keeping up with spending, it was a coach who has never been able to win at the levels of the truly elite in CFB. To have that kind of talent and not even get in to an expanded playoff is frankly embarrassing.