Zipmeister

Apparently you are aware of a new definition for bowl eligible? Here's what I thought it was.......The term bowl eligible refers to any NCAA football team that is able to play in one of the 34 bowl games that are a part of the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A) season. In order to be bowl eligible, a team must have at least six wins, including conference and out-of-conference games, and the team must not be on probation. The NCAA allows one victory per season over a Division I FCS (formerly I-AA) team to count toward an FBS team's bowl eligibility, so long as the FCS team has supplied financial aid for football averaging out to at least 56.7 full scholarships (90% of the limit of 63 allowed to FCS schools) over the preceding two years. This prevents teams from scheduling multiple games against FCS teams in an effort to pad their win total. The term 'bowl eligible' is usually only used when referring to those teams that are eligible to play in minor bowl games, and not to those team who are competing to play in one of the five BCS bowl games.Teams that are bowl eligible will usually either play in one of the bowl games that its conference is affiliated with based on conference tie-ins or the team will be chosen from the pool of remaining bowl eligible teams to fill one of the at-large positions.On April 26, 2006, the NCAA announced that they were relaxing the rules for eligibility starting with the 2006 season, particularly in light of the new 12 game college football season. Now, teams with .500 records can qualify for bowl games if their conference has a contract with a bowl game. Also, teams with .500 records (i.e. 6-6) could earn bowl bids if all other FBS teams with winning records have been taken and postseason spots still remain vacant.[1]Occasionally there will be more bowl eligible teams than there are spots in the NCAA football bowl games in the season. In these cases, some bowl eligible teams will not be invited to play in any NCAA football bowl game. In 2005, eight bowl eligible teams did not receive bowl bids, namely WAC team Louisiana Tech (7-4), MAC teams Miami (OH) (7-4), Western Michigan (7-4), Northern Illinois (7-5), Bowling Green (6-5), Central Michigan (6-5), Sun Belt member Louisiana-Lafayette (6-5) and Mountain West team New Mexico (6-5).In 2006, nine bowl eligible teams that all finished with 6-6 records did not receive bowl bids. They were Kansas from the Big 12, the Big East's Pittsburgh, Arizona and Washington State from the Pac-10, the MAC's Can't State, Conference USA's Southern Methodist, MWC team Wyoming, and Sun Belt teams Arkansas State and Louisiana-Lafayette.In 2007, the most noted team that did not receive a bowl bid (and with a winning record) as Troy had an 8-4 record, but lost to Florida Atlantic on December 1 as the Owls went to the New Orleans Bowl as the Sun Belt champions, despite being 7-5 overall. The 6-6 teams that stayed home were Louisville from the Big East, Iowa and Northwestern of the Big Ten, Ohio from the MAC, the South Carolina Gamecocks of the SEC and another Sun Belt member, the Louisiana-Monroe WarHawks.Two NCAA rules combine to make it unlikely, though possible, that a team with seven wins will be left out of a bowl game: * Bowl games that have a contract with a conference must select a team with at least seven wins if one is available. * Any bowl berths not already filled by contract must be filled by a team with seven wins before any spare 6-6 team can be accommodated.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.

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.Thanks

ESPN scoreboard has him down for 277 rushing and 277 receiving. What a gameheres another quote from their play by play feature:"4th and 2 at EMU 9 Igor Iveljic 26 yard field goal BLOCKED, N/A for a loss of 6 yards, to the EMich 5, tackled by DeVoe Torrence. Two-point conversion attempt, Dennis Kennedy rush GOOD. 42 352nd and Goal at EMU 4 Dennis Kennedy rush for 4 yards for a TOUCHDOWN. 42 35"What really happened?

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I voted for an exciting game because anytime the Zips win by 14 I think its an exciting game.

And I quote, "He said that any football program would have to be self-supporting and not draw money from academic programs."Translation, "CSU will never have a football team."

I would also like to see the same things back, well maybe with the exception of the band ... the band sucked back then. My first day on campus the Band Director tried to "recruit" me, and I never played an instrument and can't read music. They used to turn the lights in the stadium off to allow the band to walk on and off the field before they stood still and played ... no kidding.What a load of crap. The marching band was fantastic back then. And it frequently looked like the drum major was going to break his back he was arched so much. I always stayed and listened to the post game concert while the traffic cleared out. You must have been on some heavy duty medication to have the memories you do. I don't know if its true but the rumor back then was that THE ohio state band finally broke with tradition and went to more than 100 members because they sounded so puny compared to the Akron band.

28-27 BGMakes sense. my game traker is locked up at 27-21.

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.

I thought they may have set a new record for fastest game. GO ZIPS

espn.com is showing a final score of akron 21 bg 14 at 7:40. is the game really done?

Damn those sesame seed sticks.don't you mean poppy seed muffins? or is there something i am missing about sesame seeds?I wrote sesame seed sticks to illustrate how absurd the original report was. Poppy seed muffins on the other hand are serious business. These are what they feed members of the rifle team. After ingested a couple of them the target bullseye looks as big as a bushel basket.

I voted "Akron wins by 10 or more" because 14 is bigger than 10.

Damn those sesame seed sticks.

Returning to a continuing side issue in this thread. If the coaches can't see the high snaps and get the situation corrected, lets get them some glasses. If the coaches see the problem but can't train the center to snap the ball lower, lets get a new center..If we can't get a different center, lets recruit taller quarterbacks.By the way, Akron will win by 14 points this weekend.

We could schedule Indiana (State University of Pennsylvania).

I couldn't have said it better myself. That exactly summarizes my thoughts. Also, i like the fact that all mac teams are relatively in close proximity to each other not only because of travel expenses to the team but also for away fan suport. The faithful fan willing to drive 3-4 hours can travel to 75% of the away MAC games while with C-USA the closest team would be a 5 hour drive.You must drive REALLY slow.

Eastern over BG and Miami loses again. The break we thought we were getting by not playing the Red Sparrows this year isn't sounding like such a great break right now.

Thanks ZippyRulz, that helped. This is the first time I have been able to watch the Zips play this year. One thing that stood out to me was how high and slow our center snaps the ball in the shotgun. Has our qb ever been forced to signal for a fair catch?

Our stupid cable provider dropped coverage to go to a big ten game right after the Zips first play in overtime for a big loss. WHAT HAPPENED?

I know we are going to win by 14 points. I just can't figure out the score. I'll guess 35-21.

I dare you to start a gayer topic than this one.

Akron 48Army 13

To paint a worse picture you could tally up Akron's MAC record by quarter. For example, we may have been outscored in three of four quarters of a game that we won. With my suggestion you can report they we were outscored 1-3 rather than giving them credit for winning the game. Your thoughts?

Good report with lots of interesting information, most of which may be correct.Note - Akron, not Ball State, leads the all time series between the two schools 10-7-1.My favorite game occurred in 1976, before Akron was a member of the MAC when the Zips went into Muncie and beat the MAC champion Cardinals 3-0.