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The seven goals will likely (at least 3 against WMU will help too) put the Zips back atop the National leaderboards in Goals per game (now up to 3.0). The Zips already lead in goals against. The only significant team category the Zips do not lead in is won-loss-tied percentage. C'mon Butler, lose a stinkin' game or at least tie one.

7-1 final, Hat Trick for Sarkodie. I remember the Zips getting seven against FAU a few years ago, but Michigan? Wow.

5-1 (Ampaipatakwong, Thomas Schmitt with the assist) and the subs are now rolling in.

Yep, Mattocks gets yet another one, his 11th. Another thing I noted on Rasor's blog - out of the 11 starters only two are seniors (Korb and Ampaipatakwong). Now I fully expect Sarkodie to be gone after this year as well, but this team is still well stocked.

Zips up 3-1 at the half. Two goals from Sarkodie and one by Nagbe.

If this is all true, it's fairly ironic that the Rudy award winner would be run off of a team by a former Notre Dame coach.

Actually, I considered this as well but thought statisically the best thing to do would be to vote for Ampai and no one else. But perhaps diluting the number of votes makes it harder for other to gain on him. Or perhaps it makes 0 difference either way. Math/stats majors?

And the last winless team in the MAC is (drumroll), the Akron Zips (I am counting today as a loss even if it is not officially over). EMU took out Ball State in overtime today.

Zips in an upset - will lose by less then 17.

Back then Temple was a member of the Big East so we did have one "BCS" team. The rest of that schedule is pretty light though this years team might have had the same record expect they'd beat Youngstown State (yeah, that was for you eguins. )

They were also seeded #4 last year and didn't get out of the second round. I'm guessing this won't be the final bracket layout. Still nice to see us as #1 for the second year, but I really would rather not have Indiana and Virginia in the bracket with us.

... he hits it! Zips Win! First win in State College in 22 years!

PK! Nanchoff lining up and...

In the 2nd OT ...

We are actually pretty lucky we are not down 3-1.

Any idea what has happened to our NCCA champ? I never see her name mentioned any more, and IIRC she should be a junior this year?

The first soccer RPI came out today. Not unexpectedly, the Zips are number 1. In a bit of a surprise, SMU is #2.

I'm not the only one who thinks so. "For the record, if I had a vote and the voting was done today, I'd give it [the Hermann] to Sarkodie. He's part of the best defense in the country and he contributes offesnsively and is probably the best overall player (and pro prospect) on what might be one of the best college teams of recent memory." Big Soccer

Sorry, he did - "I thought this was our best performance because we didn't make very many mental mistakes, we did give up four big plays for over 100 yards, which is too much."

I'm still not very interested in the FCS, but what if all of the "other five" conferences got together and simply decided to play each other and not the BCS teams. Play only each other (WAC-MAC Saturday anyone?) just to force the BCS teams to play only each other and a token FCS team each year. Wonder if that might wield any clout in accepting the playing field simply will not be level but it gives few non-BCS teams at least a chance to be good in the regular season. Then take your chances in a bowl game.

Actually, that was Zip Watcher, just look in his signature block, all three charter members are still proudly displayed there. I'm not sure Zipmeister knows that people root for things, unless it is a presented opportunity for sarcasm or being a smart-ass.

By the way, my interpretation on this was that BuckZip was simply laughing at the internet translation of the Spanish article. True?

Zips still ranked number #1 in the College Soccer News poll (no real surprise there) and Darren Mattocks was named to the team of the week (I think he had a pretty good argument for player of the week.

Major motivation for NM State Hmmmmm... "Once you score a win, then you can get in" Man, that is a classic. Well at least one set of football players probably enjoyed the weekend. New Mexico State 16 New Mexico 14. Can't wait for the Akron-Ball State pillow fight of the week.

No, I think we'd rather point out that by going to Can't State you did a fine job on the Can't Write part - C-r-u-c-i-f-i-e-d. Consider it a public "servise". Don't worry, both of us will be sitting home around Christmas.