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Dammit. This team just didn't seem to have it this year.

Zips have dominated this match they deserve better than 1-1

Because Louisville had already beaten us to it. They both coached there at the same time. One of the reasons I lost a tremendous amount of respect for Louisville. Not that I ever had all that much to begin with.

I think Ohio State stole it. 😁

It's nice to see Akron possession soccer again

Ali certainly did. But dammit. 🤬 What an effort. If this is what this team is capable of I fear for the MAC.

Holy sh!t. We might have a team. 😁

Big one. If they win they are in the MAC tourney no matter what else happens.

There are 10 FBS conferences. In this week's AP poll nine of them have a ranked team. Guess who is the odd man out?

If all three QBs are healthy next week who starts?

Don't think we're going to be able to count on five turnovers as a sustainable strategy but damn it feels good. That pencil must be worn down to a nub. 🤔 We want Minnesota! 🤣😂🤣

Strachan and Meyer were fantastic. Nine yellow cards in the match though 4 for Akron 5 for West Virginia.

Definitely looked much more like Akron soccer a lot more precision passing but just not able to finish. Still 0-0 heading to OT.

Still 0-0 but Akron has definitely been the better side at the beginning of the second half.

0-0 at the half. Both teams had reasonable scoring chances but the Mountaineers had better ones.

Pretty solid first half for both sides. West Virginia playing excellent defense.

These are the worst college football coaches ever. Worthless article, not even an honorable mention for iCoach.

Hey he's available again.😂😄😂

Of course we were all rooting for him. Not his best race obviously but he still has the bronze from 2016. So in the last seven years the Zips have had three athletes and one bronze in the Olympics, a significant player in the World Cup, an inductee into the pro football Hall of Fame and an Oscar winner. Not a bad haul :-)

Leave poor Gerry out of this. he is a nice man. 😁

They're new so I'll give them a break - understandably they don't yet understand the difference between Akron and Cleveland :-)

They just won the College World Series. It was mentioned that they won their first National Championship in any sport in 126 years. Bah - lets see you wait 140 years. 😁

Also also missed 1986 (and 2015) but have been to the others. My daughter is a Maryland grad so while I was disappointed to not win the title in 2018, it was pretty cool to be with her to watch her school win a title as a consolation prize. I also have a poster from 2009 where Bunbury and Nagbe signed right next to each other. Kinda cool. But I completely agree happy (and kind of stunned) to see a school like Marshall win the National Championship (especially over a blue blood like Indiana, love when a mid-major does that). I say that because as BGT points out Marshall did not have a great soccer history. Akron had a pretty strong history long before finally winning the title. Congrats to the Thundering Herd hope they hard a large contingent at the final.

My concern is they still have the same people ranking the teams. Not too hard to see manipulation every year for the "favored teams". I see a G5 champ getting the 12 slot every year. I saw a simulation (on ESPN, you need ESPN+ to read it) of how it would have come out in the past seven years. It looked good for G5 in a number of years (WMU even made it during their big year) but I have no faith that is the way it will end up when they would rank them for a 12 team playoff (when it was only four they could have ranked a G5 team as high as 5 for a nice pat on the head and it would have been essentially meaningless). So while I was enthused about the announcement initially because it gave a G5 team at least a chance after digging into a little more I'm a little less enthused. But if the Zips someday make slot #12, I'm there. 🙂