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https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/weekend-preview:-title-deciders_aid50089 Saturday, October 30 No. 20 Akron (9-3-3) at Northern Illinois (11-1-2), 3 p.m. (ESPN+) Five of the seven teams will feel that they are in contention for a MAC regular season title, but if NIU can put Akron away on Saturday, it shrinks the field. Akron’s playing very well of late, scoring nine times in the past two games. Jason Shokalook and Jonny Fitzgerald have been playing well in the final third for Akron. Stopping the Markanich brothers and coping with the away trip are critical for Akron, which is in a good spot for an at-large bid even if they miss out on finishing first in the MAC. Nick Markanich is one of the nation’s top scorers with 13 tallies on the year, and he’ll look to power the home side to the win.

West Virginia improves to 2-1-1 in the league.....with a 2-1 win at home over Georgia State WVA, BGSU and Akron are all tied for 2nd in the league.....with 7 points (2-1-1 record) Georgia State drops to 2-3 in the league....(their remaining game is against Georgia Southern) GA State can only reach 9 points and is probably the team (of the top 5) most at risk of not being one of the 4 teams in the semis Western Michigan is 1-3 ....so they could reach 9 points if they win at BG and win at home against Akron NIU is the only team that has clinched a spot in the semis.....with 11 points as GA State and GA Southern and WMU can't get to 11 WVA can clinch a spot in the semis with a win sunday at GA Southern (that would give them 10 points)....they end the season hosting BG on Nov. 4 a loss to Southern and a win over BG would also get them to the semis BGSU can clinch a spot in the semis with a win at home against WMU a loss to WMU and a win at WVU would also get them in the semis finally, AKRON......a win in either of last 2 games...gets them in the semis Saturday at NIU ...Nov. 4 at WMU IF BGSU and AKRON both win their last 2 games...Akron would host tourney...based on 5-1 head to head win if it is AKRON and WVU at 4-1-1....I do not know Just win, zips !!! https://wvusports.com/news/2021/10/28/mens-soccer-late-winner-helps-wvu-earn-500th-program-win.aspx https://wvusports.com/news/2021/10/28/mens-soccer-late-winner-helps-wvu-earn-500th-program-win.aspx

If NIU wins, they will have 14 points and they can not be caught for first place. WVU and BGSU could end up with 13 points if they win out (they play each other on Nov. 4....so they both can not end up 4-1-1)

MAC showed their dominance tonight against the top 2 teams in the horizon league Cleveland State leads horizon league with a 8-1 league mark. Zips played very well tonight Bowling Green played 2nd place Horizon league team Oakland (6-1-1) tonight BG led 3-0 at halftime and that was the final.

Most importantly, the zips are #19....in this week's NCAA rpi poll https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/soccer-men/d1/ncaa-mens-soccer-rpi

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/ Last week, the zips were tied for 40th in the coaches poll. After their impressive win over #14 BGSU, the zips are #19 in this week's coaches poll

Fitz works so hard. Hope that he can make it a hat trick.

Honors continue for Shooky MAC Men's soccer player of the week https://getsomemaction.com/news/2021/10/25/mac-announces-mens-soccer-player-of-the-week.aspx

College soccer news team of the week Congratulations to Mr. Hat Trick....Jason Shokalook https://collegesoccernews.com/college-soccer-news-mens-national-team-of-the-week-week-ending-october-24-2021/

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Georgia state improved to 2-1 in league with 2-0 win over western Michigan Broncos drop to 0-3-0 in league northern Illinois is now 2-0-2 in league GA southern is 0-2-1 georgia state hosts northern Illinois on Saturday huge game in MAC

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/mens-weekend-preview:-friday-night-feast_aid50049 Bowling Green(m) (9-2-2) at Akron(m) (7-3-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN+) The MAC race is shaping up to be a good one. Between Northern Illinois’ quality, West Virginia’s sturdiness, the addition of Georgia State, and the consistency of Bowling Green and Akron, five teams have a shot at winning the conference crown. For Akron, this is a must-win to have a shot of staying in the mix, as this is a home game before closing with two games on the road. Diogo Pacheco and Dyson Clapier have provided quality on the flanks and will look to best Jacob Erlandson at the back. With experience in defense, younger players have provided quality going forward, with Kyle Cusimano and Alberto Anaya helping make things happen.

Great non league matchup tonight 8-0-3 Kentucky (4th in coaches poll) vs 7-1-4 West Virginia kentucky wins 1-0 on a goal at 104:15

Bowling Green moves up to number 14 in this week’s coaches poll https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/

Wolverines really packing it in. 0-0 at half time no corner kicks for either team..... regular starter Renato Kauzlaric not playing tonight. Zips really missing his good distribution from the middle. Malik Henry had a really good first half. good commentators....Chad Welker doing a good job....not sure...who his partner is tonight

great summary of the current standings...and the remaining schedules for each team. Akron home game against Bowling Green is the biggest "MUST WIN CONFERENCE GAME" in many, many years NIU is now probably the team in the best position to host the conference tourney...as they have already played West Virginia and BGSU

Relentless https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/sports/2021/10/13/university-akron-earns-2-1-mens-soccer-win-over-penn-state-ryan-kingsford-dyson-clapier-jared-embick/6100443001/

While the game was going on, I looked at the interactive RPI report. Penn State was 22 ; Akron was 28.. There are still about 10 west coast games to be played later tonight But as of right now, Penn State dropped to 28 in the RPI. Our zips played very well tonight and they are currently sitting at 21 in the RPI. 2 huge games next week....Michigan and BGSU. I sure hope that the zips athletic department heavily promotes the BGSU game. Zips have to get a win in that game....and they need the students and community to come out and support the Zips.

3 MAC Teams in top 25 or coaches poll....and none of them are the 6-3-2 Zips The zips did not even receive a single vote this week https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/

Penn State right now is first in the big ten with a 4-0-0 record. Wisconsin is 2nd with 3-0-1 and Maryland is 3rd with 3-1-1 record. A win against the Nittanys would also help the zips in RPI. Penn State is 22 in RPI right now. October 18 opponent Michigan is 2-2-1 in BTen and 44 in rpi Looking at MAC teams and current RPIS BGSU 24 Akron 32 (win over Pitt is really helping them as Pitt keeps knocking off high ranked ACC teams) WVU 38 GA State 47 NIU 58 Ga Southern 88 W. Michigan 135

Northern Illinois has only lost 1 game all year Bowling Green crushed Georgia southern tonight 4-0 2-0 northern Illinois will host 2-0 bowling green next Saturday night in an early battle for first place in the MAC

https://gozips.com/news/2021/10/5/mens-soccer-akron-mens-soccer-announces-upcoming-scheduling-change.aspx

https://unitedsoccercoaches.org/rankings/college-rankings/ncaa-di-men/ last week, the zips were #26 in the coaches poll zips played one match and they tied #3 West Virginia I expected the zips to move back into the top 25. I was wrong zips drop to #29

Will Meyer selected https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/mens-team-of-the-week:-october-5_aid49970