MDZip

So Toledo is back in the rankings, do we root for them to win the MAC and with all the American Conference uncertainty maybe sneak their way into the G5 bowl position? Just thinking of the money that would bring to the MAC vs. giving a rival conference team a possible leg up. Kind of undecided. That would also mean that we'd have to root for Ohio which would put them tied (and by head to head - ahead) of the Zips if the Zips beat Can't. I don't want to root for that. So it could be that the MAC's highest ranked team won't make the MACC.

With two weeks left in the season, there are only 71 bowl-eligible teams -- those with at least six wins. The possibility remains that some bowls may have to take sub-.500 teams to fill out the bowl landscape now largely left unregulated by the NCAA. But isn't it cool to know we are actually one of them? With LZip's analysis it looks like 9 more teams could actually make it and hopefully that ends the debate. It would tick me off to no end if they decided to let 5 win teams in at the expense of those that are bowl eligible. I hope they make the ruling that sub 500 teams can only be taken if the bowl eligibility pool has been exhausted, so I am rooting for those other nine teams to make it. That should make it moot.

80 - there are actually 41 bowls but it includes the FBS Championship game.

The Zips could actually finish ahead of Ohio which could give them a leg up on a bowl bid. If the Zips beat Can't OU will have to beat NIU (who needs the win to win the west) or the Zips will finish ahead of OU.

I'm calling it now - BOWL ELIGIBILITY!!!!

Happy for Alexander - he's been busting his ass this year too. And the CBS announcers are having trouble telling the number 12 from 13. They were insisting Woodson had been disqualified. It was Davis which is kind of disappointing from a senior who's had such a great year.

I believe the conversion experiment of Jerome Lane to WR should be declared a success. :-)

Kwan Cheatham Jr. 8.7 Jake Kretzer 10.3 Reggie McAdams 13.3 Isaiah Johnson 11.0 Pat Forsythe 10.0 Aaron Jackson 6.3 Antino Jackson 13.7 Discounting the newcomers, everyone's scoring average is up (except Pat who is dead even). But with a very limited sample set (and the fact he's had to play a lot more minutes than anticipated) Antino is the early leader (Reggie close behind). By the way at the Charleston classic last year before he was really getting any playing time he walked up to me to introduce himself as though he was someone I should know. Seemed quite confident, I guess that was the real deal. And even though Hiram only sort of counts when was the last time the Zips started a season 3-0? It hasn't been in the last 15 years. There's a bit of a buzz about the Zips with their P5 wins they've have taken over the last five years: MIss. St., Penn State, Oregon State, USC (both ) and Arkansas. Pretty good list. Would be a really big buzz if they could pull of the Villanova upset.

I get to go see an undefeated Zips team take on the #11 team in the country Sunday. Thanks Tino, great game but we can't expect him to go 40 minutes every game. He needs some teammates to get healthy.

To be clear, he passed Taylor's single season record of 10, with 10.5. Taylor still holds the career record of 21. Brown has 16.5 right now, I would not be disappointed if he passed Taylors career record either.

OK so its not a big game but should still be noted. And by local custom early in the season the sound guy forgot to turn the mic on. :-)

Odd thing to think about but you know after years of success and a National Championship (which wasn't that long ago) maybe, just maybe, Akron is now a NAME. Couple that with an excellent schedule and perhaps the soccer team has truly arrived - I've read articles recently where Akron has been identified as a college soccer titan. Perhaps respect has finally been earned.

Number 4 - I am OK with that!!!!

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.

Nice shout out for the Zips from the announcers at the World Cup qualifiers with Yedlin and Nagbe in the game at the same time.

Something pretty cool that LeBron did. Certainly gaining wisdom as he becomes an NBA "elder statesman". Also like that his official stationery uses the Akron skyline. Man certainly is dedicated to his hometown. Hey Steph Curry, step up - you were born in Akron too.

I'm going to go with Pat, maybe only a couple points but with all of the newcomers contributing I don't think anyone is going to go way up and he certainly has the skill set and with the plan to share some time with Big Dog instead of just splitting it, I see him gaining a few points.

I suspect the penalty yards per game has a misplaced decimal - I would expect any team that has over 600 yards in penalties per game to have a problem winning any games.

Johnson, who had been putting up Pac-Man numbers all season, was a pedestrian 23-of-41 passing for 269 yards and three touchdowns. We get excited when our quarterback's numbers are that good. And there are four MAC teams playing Saturday (Zips, Miami, UMass, EMU) and the Zips have twice as many MAC victories as the other three combined (and if we beat Miami would be where all of our MAC victories resides - not a point of pride).

Georgetown's last and only loss at home was to the Zips. Since a little bit of a rough start they have had a tremendous season. Undefeated in the Big East.

But you sort of have to beat most of them too Sitting at #3.

Normally true however the NCAA has a stupid rule that a loss on PKs in the championship game only counts as a loss so that team ended at 23-1-1 with the tie being against UNC in the National semifinal that the Zips won on PKs.

Give me the Bahamas Bowl! :-)

On replay that was an outstanding interception by Scott. Leapt to knock it down with one hand and then grabbed it on the way down.