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Actually they beat Virginia Tech but that's probably irrelevant now. My blood pressure has gone down again, so its basically who wins the second half. Gotta give the Zips some credit for sucking it up and coming back. March and Caponi playing well, Hirschman has made the most of his opportunity, Pohl looked really jittery. C'mon Zips can't afford to drop this one.

Actually though they look pretty good on TV.

Outstanding save, but I'm still partial to the one he made in the NCAA championship.

If this program is going to take a step forward this year, this is more than a must win - but it's not a guaranteed win, which is why it is important. When Morgan State showed up last year I don't think anyone was that worried about them, they have been a down FCS team for quite a while. JMU is a different challenge and one the Zips should welcome. A challenge but one they must be able to meet to keep moving forward. A victory by a touchdown or less would not be a victory, these boys need to show they are playing with a fire and need to put this team away by more than the pont spread, otherwise the confidence level won't be there for the games after Michigan. C'mon Zips I am not expecting 66-6, but how about a nice 38 -17 score? I'd be satisfied with that.

This line kind of stood out - Ohio State is one of three basketball programs outfitted by James' Nike line, along with Kentucky and Miami. (sigh)

Don't get the logic behind that one. So we play EMU and Ball St. twice and eveyone else in the West once? I liked the old format of East for five, West for six and East for five more. Maybe it because the division winners are no longer guaranteed the 1 and 2 spots so they thought more crossover games were needed? And we get Buffalo twice in five games? Not a fan but it won't likely make a lot of difference.

NIU upsets Iowa in Iowa.

Tough break for Buffalo. Down by only ten and recovered an OSU fumble at the Buckeye one that was called back on a penalty. Probably was the turning point of the game. Pretty good weekend for the MAC, either a win (Can't State, BGSU, Ball St) or hanging tough against good teams (Toldeo, WMU, Buffalo) except UMass and Akron. Makes me a little more nervous for the rest of the season.

#12 on that list, Towson, is the one that dismantled Connecticut. And #32, Liberty, gave the Flashes fits. The Zips better take this one seriously.

McAdams certainly displayed some of that last year against NIU when he scored 20 and was 4-4 from 3. I just wanted to post something positive away from the football thread (sigh).

Really? 3rd and 1 and we hand the ball off 4 yards deep?

And a little lucky - fumbles the ball then is able to get it back and throw for a touchdown. Unbelievable. That'll show up on SC Top Ten.

Appreciate the drops by UCF or we'd really be in trouble.

Nice stop by the defense and then I was thinking of that exact scenario - dammit!!!

Still early, not giving up hope on this game yet and certainly not the season. UCF has a good team.

What did Bowden say about what needed to happen? Don't give up big plays and don't turn the ball over. Two series, one big play given up and almost a turnover. Oy. Pohl has had a nice start.

At this point even - go Flashes! OK, sorry, got carried away.

Some "whining" from Steve Spurrier about the SEC unbalanced scheduling. Don't ask me why the SEC released its 2014 schedule just days before the 2013 season, but that's exactly what happened Wednesday. And here's all you need to know: Florida plays both Alabama and LSU in 2014 and Georgia and South Carolina play neither. As one Gator fan emailed me Wednesday: "How is this even remotely fair?" Answer: It's not. In fact, it's a travesty and makes you realize that Steve Spurrier was right last year when he proposed a new way for the SEC to choose division champs. Spurrier said back in the spring of 2012 that the SEC should pick its division champions based on division record instead of overall conference record. I agree, for any conference that is split into divisions, the only fair way to determine a division champion is your record in that division. Your record against the other division should only be used for tiebreaking purposes. Of course in conferences like the MAC, who have an uneven number of teams, it becomes more complicated so I would suggest the following: East division teams play 6 games in division and two crossover games, while the West plays 5 division and three crossover games. This can be accomplished by using a nine week conference schedule where every team has one bye week (for the purposes of simplicity I drew up a schedule where each East team is off for one of the nine weeks and three west teams are off on the other two, because you have to have an odd number for every week but other combinations would work too). This would also allow teams to schedule a non conference game later in the season if they'd like on their off-conference week. Only division games would count for the division championship, the cross division games would only be used as a tie-breaking criteria.

Maybe he donated all of it to Imani Davis (but only needed when he is being used as a punt returner). And this kind of stuff in an official release also drives me a little crazy - "Williams’s arm was complimented by sophomore running back Jawon Chisholm’s ..". Really, Chisholm was remarking how much he liked Williams arm? I know it's only a football release but come on, we're supposed to be a institution of higher learning, couldn't we at least get someone in the English department to look these over before they're (or should I have said their) released? Jupy2, do you work in the English department? Can you find someone?

That is odd, what happened to our Aussie punter? And our primary PR is listed as Imani Davis 6-0, 282!?! Disappointed not to see Bickley as a PR. Think he would be fun to watch. Anybody remember Dino Hall? Also happy to see the Hudson kid, Osborne, win the RT spot. And where is CJ Mizell?

There is a scroll bar to the right of the pdf file (not the same as the window scroll bar). Grab the pdf one and scroll down to the third page.

And Elton Alexander takes Buffalo in the East and Ball State in the West. He takes the Zips for fifth (ahead of Miami and UMass). Could be a wide open year this year. Can the Zips pull a Miami worst to first? I don't think anyone in the East is going undefeated and we might have actually caught a break in not drawing the Bulls. 35 hours to go to start to find out.

Maybe I needed to be a little clearer. All I was looking for was a way to get as close to the Akron section as possible if I didn't end up getting them through the ticket office (since I am not absolutely sure I am going to be able to go yet). Does anyone already have theirs through the UA ticket office and know what the section number is?

Did anyone ever determine what actual section Zips fans will be sitting in for the Michigan game?

Proenza is a big part of the reason I started to pay attention to UA again after I graduated and never thought about UA again for at least 15 years. He acted like it was an actual university and put money and emphasis behind it to back it up. My very first post on Zipsnation was about how amazed I was at the campus transformation (long before Infocision Stadium) after stepping foot back on the campus after having been away for many years (the last time I had seen the campus, Buchtel Avenue still ran through the center of it). For my money, he was the best President the University ever had.