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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.

Whew :-)

DISH channel 158. Gods know why CBS wanted this one but thank you.

So people bash him at times so give him credit - nice job George.

Maybe because we took their AD? (indirectly )

That's pretty amazing considering they had to win a four-way tiebreaker to even get the final seed. From GoZips.com: Following the final regular season matches of MAC play on Thursday, Oct. 29, there was a four-way tie for the eighth and final spot. Akron, Ohio, and Bowling Green finished 3-8 in the MAC and Northern Illinois was 2-9-3, but each team had nine 9 points. The tiebreaker rule was put into effect to determine who came out with the final spot. The four teams were grouped together to see which teams had the most head-to-head wins. Akron had six points with a win over Ohio and Northern Illinois. Ohio also had six points with wins over Bowling Green and Northern Illinois. The tie between the Zips and the Bobcats was broken with Akron's head-to-head 2-0 win over Ohio on Sept. 27.

And Noah comes in at #14. Awesome. But exactly who calls him the Robot Ham?

Except he didn't actually say University of Akron nor that that's where the scholarships were targeted. he just said it was held in Akron. Darn it.

Much as I hated reviewing the game I really enjoyed getting this perspective, its not something you'd get from a regular reporter but something you get from the heart from an actual fan. I liked it a lot, thanks for posting and I hope you do it again. But why is it always the left nut, why never the right?

The ACC has 4 of the top 5 and 10 of the top 30. We don't even have 10 in our conference.

Tough news for WMU, Connar Tava broke his foot. Betting he will be (or would have been) in the Top 25 list.

I still don't understand the love for Creighton in the coaches poll. Their results so far are down below. Anyone on that list scare you with the possible exception of Tulsa and Michigan St? I have each teams current RPI listed. So their top RPI team is #27 (Tulsa). The Zips have played #1 (Wake), #10 (Georgetown), #15 (OSU), #19 (UCSB), #24 (Maryland) and #26 (ODU) all of which rank higher (and where all three of the Zips losses and ties reside) than Creighton's toughest opponent. I get they have won all of their matches (even though only 4 out of 14 being on the road and the only remaining tough game @Georgetown) but I don't see them as a #1 (neither does the RPI having them listed correctly at #6, behind the Zips at #4 ). #57 University Of Michigan Win 1-0 #160 University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Win 4-0 #55 California State University-Northridge Win 2-1 #117 California-Irvine, University of Win 4-0 #39 @Michigan State University Win 1-0 #27 University Of Tulsa Win 1-0 #86 Northern Illinois University Win 2-0 #191 @Seton Hall University Win 4-2 #80 Missouri State University Win 4-0 #132 DePaul University Win 1-0 #87 Drake University Win 2-1 #149 St. John's University Win 2-1 #28 @Butler University Win 1-0 #96 @Marquette Win 3-1 #74 Villanova University #67 Xavier University #71 @Providence College #10 @Georgetown University

Game over

Big play and penalties - what's the saying - bad teams find ways to lose

Not only a BS penalty on Monroe where was the call when the BG player shoved him to the ground right afterward?