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When have we ever faced a good team in the Coaches vs. Cancer game?

We have to stay focused and move onto next week. Akron's going to come in confident, perhaps a little too much, against a Kent team that doesn't have much left to play for but would love to spoil our season. We have to make sure we don't look past them.

Beating some 6-6 G5 team in the (insert sell out sponsor name) bowl is irrelevant to me. I expected more than a 6-6 or 7-6 team in year 6 of Bowden's tenure. Like I said hopefully we jump on OU early tonight (as I feel that's our only hope) then beat Kent next week to clinch our division. I'd be happy with a trip to Detroit even if we lose by 3 touchdowns to Toledo. It would be a sign of progress.

You're right that's what the outcome would almost certainly be. I just won't be happy with it. Hopefully we win the next 2 games and its a non-issue.

Without what Dambrot accomplished here we probably never land a guy like Groce. He turned a below average to bad MAC program into the class of the MAC and regarded by many a respectable mid-major. Hopefully Groce is the man for us to take that next step.

Apples to oranges comparison. A 6-6 team can't be left out of a bowl unless there are more than 78 bowl eligible teams. I don't see there being that many.

I'd be shocked if a 6-6 team misses a bowl game.

It seems premature to be having these discussions anyways. Campbell has done a great job in his short time at ISU, but he needs to do this and build upon what he's accomplished so far for another few years before he gets big time offers.

Bowling Green sucks...

The scores might not have been, but the outcomes certainly were.

It appears this thread has turned into the official 2017 OSU thread. I'll make sure to avoid it. I come here to talk Zips sports. I don't care about dwelling on any other specific team.

I feel Akron's only chance is to jump on them early. If OU is playing with a lead they will be even more inclined to running the ball which I don't see Akron having any chance of stopping.

The race in the West has certainly tightened up.

Thank goodness, I won't need to keep my phone open to track stats any longer.

With WMU loss last night, it looks like a 2 horse race in the West.

Its definitely what Section210Zip states along with factoring in strength of schedule and home/away and perhaps a trickle of some other stuff. Just like Kenpom in basketball, this metric doesn't care about wins and losses. They derive their odds using other factors. Not to say I agree or disagree with it, but that's how they are determined.

The real problem is there is there is 130 teams competing for 4 playoff spots. All having unbalanced schedules. There will always be people complaining about something in said system. Edit: I don't feel its a perfect system but I feel it would be an upgrade if they expanded to 8 teams with the 5 P5 conference winners getting an auto-bid, the top ranked G5, and 2 wildcards.

I feel WMU is a better team than OU and we still found a way of beating them. I do agree that OU is likely the better team, but they certainly aren't unbeatable.

Urban Meyer is only 53. If he's holding out for the OSU job, he might be waiting a very long time.

You can buy slim streaming bundles that don't have ESPN at all. You also have people that have given up live TV altogether and get their "TV fix" solely from Netflix.

This is the year Akron needs to clear the 15k average so I'm sure they will finish the season somewhere in the 15k-18k range. I'm also sure that Akron will be transferring $400k-$600k from the general fund to see those numbers are met. http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2017/03/university_of_akron_sports_sti.html

Rome wasn't built in a day. Attendance will always lag behind success. If we finish out this season strong you could probably expect to see some sort of small uptick in season tickets next year. People perceive our progrum as the dumpster fire of FBS from all the years of failure and little to no prior success. Its going to take years of winning football to overcome that perception.

Remember the poster that thought we could average 15k fans this season? I agree with Balsy though. I'm kind of over talking about attendance. Its going to continue to blow until the culture surrounding the game improves.

I think you can still get that on like MTV8

10 wins should be considered a terrible season for any D1 basketball program. Last year only 2 MAC programs won fewer than 15 games and all programs won more than 10.