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That's certainly the hope.

Apparently when they can script a little, the offense is competent. Can they keep it up now that we have a new ballgame?

It's amazing that Moorhead has done so poorly recruiting that Ben Finley is incapable of losing this job as the obvious only playable choice.

It's been time for many weeks. But apparently Roggow looked at Joe sideways the wrong way once in the spring.

Only took him two years after the rest of us did. Offensive genius moves slowly, I guess.

Akron's defense can only hold up so long. And let's see if Akron can add to its 82 yards on offense in the second half (not counting the -23 on the failed punt).

And now Buffalo has it at the 2. Nice.

Yeah. But 21 seconds and a time out, could be a touchdown still

Defense did its job again, though. Akron gets the ball back with plenty of time to throw a pick six

Was the genius expecting Buffalo to just let the clock run on that third and 6 with three time outs?

That's not the first time Finley got a grounding call for being on a different planet than his receiver. And then next play not the first time Finley threw a nice spiral to a wide open safety.

Seems like a weird place to fake a field goal. Buffalo has this in the bag if they just wait for the Zips to self-destruct.

Buffalo definitely playing down to its opponent thru 1

Sounded like Moorhead needs extended it's so awesome.

Well that was a series.

Not a great way to sustain success.

It's going to take a combo of Buffalo again playing down to its opposition and that patented Akron offensive genius to come away with an Akron win today. Probably be helpful if Finley doesn't throw it away on fourth down again.

Probably should extend everyone another eight years given this being predicted.

Nah, it's just with how great everything is with the Zips, it's just mostly a sidenote in the greatness of everything. No reason to discuss it's so awesome.

Probably? Maybe? I know there's a few different ones on TV if nothing else

Probably not this year. Their stadium is being rebuilt, and they currently play 70 miles off campus at the soccer stadium in Houston. Best comparison around here would be if Akron had to play their games at Arlin Field in Mansfield...those Tuesday games in an 0-7 season...eeeek (official attendance was 4657 fwiw)

Not that preposterous. Maybe hasty, but Colorado State doesn't want to think one bowl in four seasons (which they'll need a 4-1 finish to avoid) is good enough. I guess that Pac-12 money is helping them pay the $1.5M

The offensive line is legitimately fine. Finley just has a bad combination of "scared to take a hit" and "his internal clock is a sundial."

Yes, and at a fair number of G5 schools as well. Thing is with those "smart schools," the right NIL donors could put them in a very good spot, especially in the non-P2 leagues (e.g. all of those but Northwestern, though the Wildcats are even 5-2 right now)

That's going to be a big change going forward. I don't think we'll see too many coaching tenures even 12 years long like Franklin has (at least, at the P4 level). James Franklin started at Penn State in 2014. There were six FBS head coaches (Kirk Ferentz, Kyle Whittingham, Troy Calhoun, Dabo Swinney, Dave Doeren, Mark Stoops) with more tenure than Franklin (and three - including Miami's Chuck Martin - who started in 2014).