UAZipster0305

OU is great within the MAC, which is nowhere near competing with OSU on their own field, especially post-NIL. I predict OSU will win by about four TD's and the game will essentially be over shortly into the 3rd quarter, if not earlier.

Besides the Zips, no public Ohio gridiron football team has gone to Columbus and came home with a win. Granted, we did it when John Heisman was coach, but the fact remains. This weekend will be no different. Ohio is a good MAC team that is light years away from competing with Ohio State for four quarters.

Most interesting bet you will not find on FanDuel: What happens first on the calendar?...Do Zips football score a point or do Zips Men's Soccer allow a goal?

The Romans love their barbarian sacrifices.

...and I am done for the night.

5+ quarters and no points says everything a person needs to know.

I am going to be positive...we have been absolutely dominated, but it is only 12-0.

Our defense is really respectable! Goal line stop!!!

Raiola has really thrown some darts, and when he hasn't, his receivers have made one handed catches.

Usually leading or winning the turnover margin results in leading or winning the game. Not when you're the Zips.

There are times I hate being right. Don't tell my wife that though.

Nice play for the defense, unfortunately I feel it will only facilitate a safety, meaning Nebraska will still score, and they will get the back almost immediately, not allowing our D to get a break. Maybe I am just too cynical at this point.

Ohio beats WVU 17-10 in front of a sold out crowd in Athens. It really makes me wonder if we had hired Frank Solich then the fates of our program and Ohio's would be reversed.

It makes OSU fans feel good though, and to that end, it doesn't matter if if the competition off the field before the game even started was unequal. I find it to be insanely pointless and boring, but there will never be a shortage of people wanting to buy 100k+ tickets to watch a gridiron sacrifice. It's just good business, nothing more. The real game of equals was last night, and OSU lost 2-0.

Great home game and crowd for a Saturday afternoon in Athens for the Bobcats against WVU, and it is a competitive game. Wish we had such things!

Big game tonight! My prediction, Zips 2-1.

You and GP1 both have valid points here. I think the scales begin to tip when the "minor" league's revenue is on par with the major league, which it is becoming due to consolidation and concentration of the big name schools/programs. At the very least, NFL owners have taken notice.

Severn...great, beautiful area. Cheers, fellow UA alum in Maryland. 🍺

So hundreds of millions of dollars of subsidy from hundreds of thousands of students taking student loans at MAC universities is worth it so that 30 players who become millionaires upon being drafted can have a local brand? I don't think so. Cost>>>>>>>>>Benefit

One can contribute in the football forum out of overall love for UA, recognizing the damage that keeping the status quo in football is doing to the university and every other institution in the MAC and G6.

I disagree. Toledo is the premier football program.

And I said nothing about socialism or communism. There is no need to trot out these boogeymen models in defense of plutocrats or oligarchs. You will never be one and neither will I. The populace's constant defense of plutocrats and oligarchs astounds me.

There are an infinite number of ways to do college football better than NIL for MAC-level programs. I provided one. You suggested another. They all have merit. As for the prior season not impacting the next, this happens due to rankings whether we like it or not, and that's not determined by anything on the field but rather mere opinion. My suggestion at least let's all schools participate in a meaningful post-season and let's next season jockeying be determined by results on the field.

Let's be serious...we aren't even consistently competing with Toledo and haven't been for more than a decade. We were though one chip shot FG away from defeating Indiana a few years ago though. Granted, that relative situation has changed since. In the Owens era (I believe it was), we lost 28-14 to OSU, and they got a score or two late to pull away. We lost in OT at the NIT to OSU in men's basketball about ten years ago. We have a stellar record against OSU and more success in men's soccer. So yes, we do compete with OSU, BUT that cannot happen when the the difference comes down to being able to pay players or not. Like GP1 says, find a new model for football at the conference level. Otherwise, football will continue to be a major drag on all other sports and the reputation of UA as a whole.

The same argument is made by the right against Amtrak...it doesn't turn a profit. You know what?...neither does our highway system or airports or libraries or schools or fire or police departments. In the early years of this country for profit police and fire departments were tried, and they were an absolute disaster. Basically, when you try to put a price on everything, nothing has value anymore. All of the G6 need to band together and create a competition level between FCS and 1-AA. Suppose there would be about 4 conferences and ~64 total teams. A quarter would play a single elimination championship bracket after the conference season while the others would play out-of-conference games that could help determine how many wild card invites for the tournament a particular conference gets for the following season. Level playing field, every game is meaningful, players get paid a living stipend, but they aren't free agents...I'd watch that!