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And a nice mention in Mark Schlabach's ESPN's "On the Mark" column, under "Ground Churning Tailbacks".http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/notebook?pag...k/onthemark1020And this from a guy who at the beginning of the season was just part of a three man rotation (not that I wouldn't love to have Alex Allen back too).

Something else I think is kind of a positive sgn - when I joined this board only about a year and a half ago, I was member number 1310. I'm encouraged by all of the new posters and just noticed that the number recently went over 5000. I know they're not all active, but an icrease of over 3500 in a year and a half is pretty encouraging. I really think there is some momentum starting to build. Part of that has to be attributable to the basketball team's success over the last few years, c'mon football, help us out (the 05 MACC is arting to look a little stale ).

I found my source. According to the macreportonline the East winner is guaranteed a bowl slot (assuming of course, bowl eligibility):This will be the 12th Motor City Bowl and the MAC has been involved for all 12 years.He later added the MAC’s two division champions are protected and will go to bowl games.Here is the article source - http://macreportonline.com/index.php/20080......For-Now.html

Apparently you are aware of a new definition for bowl eligible? Here's what I thought it was..........There is a special case where a team can finish with a losing record and still appear in a bowl game. If a team wins their conference, they are given a waiver of the bowl eligibility requirements if they end up with an overall losing record.There is the key - you can be bowl eligible with a losing record IF you win your conference (e.g. MACC), but not if you don't. So if the Zips would make it to the MACC at 6-6 and then lose, they would not bowl eligible. And by the way, I also saw (on the MAC web site?) the MAC East champ is "protected" for a bowl should they be bowl eligible.

Got to hand it to the guys - looked like Buffalo had the potential to give them a run, but the Zips shut them out. Haven't lost in MAC play since 2006. Michigan is up on Wednesday, they are currently ranked #18 in the country.

Well, that is true, assuming UB loses to Army. Last I saw, 10-3 Army, 2:55 into the 2nd.Army isn't a MAC school. Buffalo's conference record remains at 1-2 no matter how they do today.And our two MAC victories have been extremely lucky wins over the two bottom dwellers in each division. C'mon guys, show us something over the last four games of the season. I say 3-1 would get us to the MACC.

Iveljic's kick was blocked, Andy Hildreth grabbed it and ran for a first down, which Kennedy ran in for the touchdown three plays later. Devoe Torrence neither made a tackle nor burned his redshirt.

I just looked up some of the Zips records - Kennedy probably had the greatest rushing game EVER by Zips player. 11.1 YPC, three touchdowns and the second most number of yards in school history (the only one better was James Black at 295 and he needed over twice as many carries). Wow.

The offense finally seems to be clicking so even though the next two weeks gives us time to heal (I'm thinking specifically of Deryn Bowser), I wish we were playing again next week. Maybe they can take the time to help Jacq work on that little clock in his head?

Absolutely didn't deserve to win that one. So now the first place (by ourselves) team in the East barely beats the worst team in the West (first time this year that has happened). I wonder if there is any team in the East that wouldn't finish in the West basement?

I think we might know who the MAC East offensive player of the week might be.

Well at least that was funny - Joe Dunn mentioned about where Igor would like the ball placed if he has to kick the game winner and Stams asked him where - Dunn said he wouldn't ask because he gets in enough trouble talking to Igor.

Didn't we just play this game last week?

Kennedy with another huge run - almost 250 yards right at the same that Miami knocks off BUGS - its over. A win and we're back tied for first.

BG got 19 3/4 on a 4th and 20. 1:36 left with Miami up 27-20. They should be able to run it out. That would be huge for us.

Monster games for both Kennedy and Andre Jones today - good to see a spark from a couple of important players.

How come no one is using the chat room? By the way, the RedHacks are tied with BUGS, part way through the 4th. Go Red Hacks - and thank you Dennis Kennedy!

also on 1350 AM if you can get it (poor reception in many areas around here)And if you can't get reception, 1350 also has a radio stream (handy for us out of towners):http://www.sportsradio1350.com/main.html

Some writer named Lisa Horne wrote an article on the worst (and best) mascots in college sports. She put Zippy at #5. Cocky was named one of the best and its victory in the Capital One Bowl competition was cited as proof. Well at least we're getting big enough for this type of recognition. All publicity is good publicity? For you OSU haters, Brutus was the next worst after Zippy. Here is the link -http://msn.foxsports.com/cfb/pgStory?conte...p;photo=8652664Anybody recognize any of the AK-Rowdies in the background?

Wow, didn't this get started as a football thread? Who would have known that the band discussions would inspire this kind of passion? We need to figure out how to make the transference to the football team happen.

Every game that is left is winnable, but each of them could also be a loss. There's not a single one that I feel strongly about either way. I'm a little more worried about Buffalo and a little less about EMU but they're still both in that same situation. That's what makes the MAC fun too, you're never really out of it unless someone is running away with the division or you get more than three losses. Our record is not good, but somehow we're still in second in a weak division. There is certainly a season left to play for even with the disappointing BG loss. A loss at EMU would really put a damper on things but even if that happens, it's still not over yet. If someone did the same sort of review for us as an upcoming opponent I think it could look like this: Akron (3-4, 1-2 MAC). Up and down team, scores a lot of points but also gives up a lot of points. Their one MAC win is over awful Can't State, and their other two wins were over almost equally awful Sracuse and Army. But all of their wins have been on the road. This is a winnable game but also a dangerous one. See?

Let's get him.

Just wanted to make sure you understood that my use of quotes on the dumb question title was intended to show that I thought it was far from a dumb question, you can see how glad many people were to give some answers. This is a pretty passionate fan base who got a marvelous taste of a championship team a few years ago, and is very hungry for more.

I thought they may have set a new record for fastest game. GO ZIPSNow they have the game back in the 3rd quarter but they still have the akron and bg season records reflecting a Zipwin tonight.Lets just hope they're clairvoyant. Zips just scored again, Igor hit a short field goal. WMU did us a huge favor tonight coming back from down 21-3 to take Buffalo out in overtime. If we finish off BGSU we will be the only MAC East team with only one loss. Not bad for the "worst team in the East".

Would be nice, but it's only early in the 3rd quarter. Igor just hit a 47 yarder for a 24-14 lead.