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Defensive Player of the Week: Akron LB Jatavis Brown Akron senior linebacker Jatavis Brown (Belle Glade, Fla.) led all defenders with 11 tackles, two sacks, a career-high 4.5 tackles for loss, one forced fumble, one break-up, and the first interception of his career in a 37-28 win at Miami. With his two sacks, Brown set the school record for sacks in a season, the previous record was 10.0 held by Jason Taylor and Ken Williams. He now has 10.5 sacks. After 10 games, Brown has 88 tackles, a team-best 16.0 tackles for loss, and a team-best 10.5 sacks for a loss of 80 yards, three hurries, two forced fumbles, and an interception. http://mac-sports.com/news/2015/11/16/FB_1116154924.aspx Well deserved, Jatavis.

The wins against Georgetown, Maryland, and UCSB on the road and St. Louis, Santa Clara, Penn State, and Michigan State at home are all very strong. The losses (ODU, Wake Forest, and UCLA) and tie against OSU are acceptable. The only red mark is the tie against Western Michigan. Our RPI is #5, and all rankings have us in the top 10. Anything less than a 5-8 seed is robbery. A 4 seed is justifiable, but given the committee's history with us, it would be unprecedented. I see a 7 seed and two home games in our future.

I posted this a while back and got no responses: Members519 posts0 warning pointsPosted 04 November 2015 - 06:52 PM Zipgrad01, on 04 Nov 2015 - 12:13 PM, said: I don't want to stoke the fire but I am interested to understand the statement of the staggering lack of talent in the upcoming classes ........... How do you gauge that ? Some names like Lane,Wolfe, Woodson, Williams, Ritz, Erickson, Van Edwards, Cooper on Offense ................... Pittman, Marcus, Boxen, Scott, Guiser, Gilbert. Bell, Rachel, Hope on defense. This year's Freshmen and RS freshmen names may not stick out too much other than a couple but I;m not sure how to qualify the statement I'm could be wrong, but these guys seem to be pretty talented and have contributed this year. Obviously some big senior losses on the defensive side and the O-line, but do you really think that the above names are a staggering decline in talent ? Maybe young and not much experience, but I'm not sure on the lack of talent How do you come to the statements that recruiting is stagnant and the lack of talent is "staggering" for the upcoming classes ?

I probably shouldn't gloat but I'm going to anyway... A former Zips Coach once remarked something like It can't be done in Akron which proved to be wrong. Well, it hasn't been done in Louisville, and won't be done this year.

Neither. It would have been nice had one of these MAC teams been worthy.

Maybe the selection committee was watching the USMNT game and saw we were the only college with multiple guys. The announcers gushing over Akron's program was nice.

It's posted. http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/soccer-men/d1

Congrats to Jared Embick for the OUTSTANDING schedule this year - home and away. Congrats to staff and players for making that schedule count for something (i.e. winning matches that MATTER)!

"Going To A Bowl" is going to be the sweetest sound to my ears. I don't care Where, Who, or When. And I don't care about anyone's prediction that the wrong matchup would spell DOOM for us.

NCAA is supposed to be showing it here.

So as of today 62 teams have at least 6 wins, 35 have at least seven losses with 31 (including the Zips) on the cusp of bowl eligibility with no more than six losses. 14 of the 31 (Ga St, Kentucky, Vandy, Washington, San Jose St, Rice, FIU, UTEP, ECU, Kansas St, Texas, Indiana, Nebraska and Minnesota) already have six losses so those are the ones we should probably be rooting against to help the Zips. CMU is almost certainly going to make it (they have Can't and EMU left), so that would give the MAC six eligible, so the Zips will probably need as many conferences as possible not to fill their slots, and losing to the Bulls might well get the Zips left behind because they would be a seventh team eligible and would probably drop the Zips to an eighth place MAC slot. That isn't likely to get it done. The Buffalo game is huge.

Will be interesting show at noon. Agree with 7 or 8 with outlier that Creighton get in the second group and Akron gets 9 or 10 2 losses and possible 4 seed ahead of Gtown, but the loss to UCLA at home that also showed back line issues reemerge with Radjen out had put staff on search for a new combination at CB w Ruukak, tbd from what I see. Weidt latest stab at it, Clarke. Call it Fri Dec4 in Winston Salem will be a big date for the Zips as 8th seed at 1. You have to get there first, and beat them or Clemson at home most likely to get to the CC.

Rowdy, I'm sure it will affect attendance a bit. But, a friend of mine who's a serious OSU Honk (like LZip - See Post #26) also told me in April that nobody would be at the Zips Spring Game because Cowlumbus State had their spring game the same day. Instead, we had record attendance. If someone is a Zips Fan, they should care more about Akron continuing their 2-game win streak and getting to a bowl game than what happens with MSU and the Suckeyes, right? There's plenty of good football to watch on the tube when you get home AFTER the Zips game. On the attendance topic, here is a chance for all of the "just win and they will come" philosophers on this board to prove they are right. Two road wins in a row, bowl eligibility right in front of us, and possibly the best close to a season in nearly a decade.

Thanks, I wasn't aware.

At this point, I'll take wins any way we can get them. Winning a road game against a "traditional" MAC power on the road, at any time, is good for us. Especially with a bowl game bid becoming more and more real every week. But here's the one thing that really bothered me yesterday, besides the putrid special teams play. Our secondary was exposed again. Giving up 316 yards in the air against that kind of talent is inexcusable. And the pass rush was doing their job, for the most part. That long pass TD by Miami should have never happened. The Safety was in the right spot, but stood there waiting for the pass to come down while the receiver cut right underneath him, caught the ball, and raced down the field. That kind of lack of focus let Miami back in the game. I hope it doesn't cost us a big win in the next two weeks, because Buffalo can put a much better QB on the field than any of those platooning youngsters we faced yesterday.

I bet if Ohio State held an open practice on the same day - 80,000 would show up (and the ABJ would make it front page news ;-)

Way to go Zippers! UA was clearly the better team that also had rough moments in the second half. There were plenty of FUN moments in the game on both sides of the ball. Isn't it nice to watch the Zips and not want to crawl into a hole during and after the game? Go Zips!