ZippyRulz

Apparently Coach Bowden looks like himself...they're a creative bunch over there.

"Our charge is simple," Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long, who will chair the committee, told USA Today. "Determine the best teams in college football and seed them to play each other." http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/09/college_football_playoff_selec_1.html

Interesting line movement, went up to 12.5-13 early, now has come down as low as 10. Prediction: if Zips DB's/LB's wander around the field out of their zones while the QB still has the ball: Marshall 42, Zips 28; otherwise, Zips 28, Marshall 27. Go Zips!

So we killed the zipper at the end of last season, right after Purdue came out with something very similar? Strange.

Madison Myers Commits to Akron, Lands as Best Recruit in Program History http://swimswam.com/madison-myers-commits-akron-lands-best-recruit-program-history/

Goofballs. They used a similar trivia question during the Akron-PSU game (what was the last "current" B1G school that Akron beat and who was the coach?). The announcers were surmising that 'current' was the key word and it was probably Rutgers or Maryland. When they got the answer they pronounced it as buck-TEL college and made another nebulous reference implying that every school claims to have had John Heisman as their coach back in the day. Not surprising that they then conflated us with k e n t within the week...it's all the same to 99% of espn viewers/listeners.

Whadya know...another TD pass for Cincy.

Shoddy pass defense by Toledo.

Herd is #25 in the cbssports 128 rankings. Zips are 85. MU Redhawks are dead last at 128. http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/rankings/cbs/128

Cool. That's the first time I've heard of the NDOE.

http://buchtelite.com/23340/sports/zips-open-up-60-years-at-home/ Kind of nice that it falls on our football bye week ... let there be tailgating!

MTH favored by 3 TD's over OUB http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/odds

http://fansided.com/2014/09/06/akron-coach-terry-bowden-sports-worst-orange-dye-job-history-photo/ still a mystery...

The Bowdens are faith-based folks from the south. Now it appears there is an opening at a faith-based university in the south. If we make a bowl game this year they are sure to notice TBHC. Just sayin... http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11490096/june-jones-resigns-smu-mustangs-coach

We gave up 3 touchdowns passing (one of which was completely uncovered), none on the ground. I hope you're right and Pitt tries a power running game. Either way, we need to do some running of our own and catch our passes.

Penn State is "ranked" #31 in the AP poll, Marshall is close behind at #34. Pitt is #41. http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/polls?poll=1&week=3

http://www.gozips.com/sports/fball/2014-15/roster?sort=number Here is the 2014 GoZips.com roster. You can click on the headers to sort by number, name, position, or class. Use the Printer-Friendly button to print a copy for easy reference when player initials/numbers are used as a substitute for typing out unwieldy names.

Tosu has a bye in week 4 so that won't be a factor. It's good to know that tickets are still available for this game for as little as $93 !?! http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/schedules/FBS/week4

Thanks. I think PSU is going to cause major headaches in the Big 10 this year. I think most of our games will be close the rest of the way...hopefully we will solidify the "win small" stage of our development.

Howard put up 25 points against Rutgers and lost by only 13.

You just beat me to it...thought something was wrong with my TV.

Know your defensive assignment, expect misdirection plays...

Blown coverage...let's go, coaches.

James Franklin Shows Joe Paterno-Style Football Never Coming Back to Penn Statehttp://bleacherreport.com/articles/2181851-james-franklin-shows-joe-paterno-style-football-never-coming-back-to-penn-state

The Zips haven't opened up a season with back-to-back losses since the 2002 season when they dropped games to North Carolina and Wake Forest on their way to a 10-8-2 campaign under then head coach Ken Lolla. Akron went on to win the MAC Tournament that year as well. http://www.gozips.com/sports/msoc/2014-15/releases/201409056no0nj