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I attended the scrimmage today, but didn't conduct any interviews. It seemed like this scrimmage, held indoors due to weather, was an opportunity for everyone to play extended minutes and show what they can do before the 1's and 2's are defined and preparation for the Nebraska game begins. The starters did play, but not as much as last week. Brandon Mitchell is definitely getting his chance to show what he can do. He played a lot of snaps at WR although he didn't have many stats to show for it. In general , it seemed like the defense amped it up. And the constant changing of bodies on offense just didn't make the O look very good. All 4 QB's played quite a bit. I don't think Ramart gained any ground on Kato today. Kato looked sharper than last week. The biggest concerns from today were injuries to Trevor Brown and DeAndre Brimmage. Brown seemed to hurt his knee in the first half. After about 8 minutes on the turf he slowly walked off the field and into the dressing room, Brimmage also looked to have a knee injury. It happened with about 2 minutes remaining in the scrimmage. He couldn't walk, and was carted to the locker room. I'm no doctor, but his injury seemed like it could be bad. Hope I'm wrong. Mykel Traylor-Bennett had back-to-back nice grabs from Kato. With him at 6'3", Mitchell at 6' 6" and Morris at 6' 4", we really have some nice height at WR. At 6' 2" Scippio and Stewart are big bodies too. Bubba didn't play. Gilbert was held out. King played in his place and seemed to do a nice job. McGriff showed some nice speed on an end-around sweep that gained 10 yards Didn't notice Reinke at TE? No kicking or punting today. If the Zips were a stock, I'd invest in Malik Wooldridge while he's still affordable. I didn't expect much from him going into this season, but he made some nice catches last week and today. Hope others can glean more from this morning than me. That's all I've got.

An Akron perspective of Iowa State’s football schedule (inspired by one I saw posted last year from a Penn State perspective): 1. Jackronabbits (South Dakota State) 2. I-Zippo-W-A (Iowa) 3. North Akron QB Academy #1 (Baker Mayfield’s Oklahoma) 4. The University of Akron 5. Team Canton United (TCU) 6. North Akron QB Academy #2 (Brandon Weeden’s Oklahoma State) 7. Southeast Akron (West Virginia) 8. Red Roo-ders (Texas Tech) 9. University of Zip Wins in Football (Kansas) 10. Bayloroos 11. UT-Austrkon (Texas) 12. Coach Goodcentury (Bill Snyder, the vampire, may never die) 13. Goodyear Cotton Bowl