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I haven't payed particularly close attention, but it seems to me like Miami is just exceptionally good at screwing up the 4th quarters of games this year. They have been really close and should have won multiple times this season only to lose in spectacular fashion. You have to wonder how long it will take for fans to turn on their coach. He is a great recruiter, but terrible in-game. As for Buffalo, their defense is quite possibly top of the MAC. After losing Anderson today though, they are now on their 3rd string QB. I thought they were done for when their starter (and star player) went down only for Anderson to come in and play better than his predecessor. The season will rely on one of those 2 getting healthy or Vantrease (a Freshman from Stow) will need to step up big for them.

Kent State beats Miami 17-14. I hate to see Kent win anything, but probably a good result for the Zips. Though they now have the same record, I believe Miami will be the stronger team through the rest of the year.

OU up 34-23 with 14 minutes left.

I loved the way that the Zips overcame the adversity of giving up the one goal. You could tell that SIUE was pressuring for a change of momentum after the play, but the Zips held strong and answered quickly to stop any sort of run before it could begin.

Big loss for Toledo as they lost one of the best receivers in the MAC for the season.

I said something very similar to that last week. Seems like it might be routine.

That was a Milwee special on 3rd down there.

I'm right there with you as a proud low division player (D6: as low as you could go when i was in high school), but it is no lie that I saw maybe 5 made field goals (for my team or my opponents) in my 4 years. The run game was also dominate for good reason as well. Maybe you had a different experience, but I saw a lot of games in my time.

I just can't shake the feeling that I am watching a low division high school game. Bad officiating, dropped passes, horrible kicking, weird turnovers. Both teams are just trying to hand the game away.

Are you kidding me.

You are all being too generous. Ball is not doing this alone, he is doing it in spite of the line actively hurting him.

That is one of the single worst plays i have ever seen.

How? What? Why? This is a joke.

Can't play bump and run when you are worried about getting beat deep. Our coaches can claim this is our best secondary yet all they want, i haven't seen anything to show that they are competent.

All Troy is doing is throwing it immediately to the receiver that has his DB lagging off. A Zip just needs to step up and make a play.

It is really quite common for the refs in a noncoference match up to come from the visiting team's conference. In the majority of games I have watched this year, at both levels (P5 and G5), that has been the case. If you remember, that is one of the major reasons that Oklahoma State refuses to accept their loss to CMU last season. Gundy believes that the MAC refs were terrible and that is the only reason that they did not know of an extremely obscure rule that was not even challenged by OSU at the time.

Has there been a single play without a flag yet?

I guess I shouldn't have said rated highly, I haven't seen a good star rating anywhere, but the Maxprep article I listed has him top 100 in the state and I am pretty sure I saw another national site with an article about how he was an up-and-coming player when we first offered him, but I can't seem to find it anywhere now. I don't mean that he should be a 5-star recruit, but he seems better than only having one other D-III offer. I did see that he originally went to a school in Canton. I know that when players transfer it can sometimes lead to them falling through the cracks.

MaxPreps rates him #83 (right behind another Zips RB commit at #81) for the state of Ohio. I am kind of confused by Mr. Sibley. His tape doesn't have anything that scares me, he was first team D II all-state last season, and he seems to be rated highly by recruiting services, yet his only other offer was from Ashland. Hopefully, we just found a huge sleeper.

No, that was definitely a thing in years past. Not necessarily every day maybe, but we should have seen one by now if they were going to happen.

According to App St's website it is true. http://appstatesports.com/schedule.aspx?path=mbball

Scouts #10 rated tackle in Pennsylvania. Looks like we were his only D1 offer, but he has great size and strength for a tackle.

3 other D1 offers, all of which are MAC schools: Kent, BG, and Buffalo. Props to Vincent, he pulled off the rare "blessed" and Akron U in one tweet. Highlight tape and more info can be found here. Hard to get any info from the tape as he seems to be at least twice as big as everyone he blocks in the video

Mike (middle), Sam (strong), and Will (weak) have been used to describe the linebackers on a team in a 4-3 defense for as long as I can remember. Same with the different letters for the different backs and receivers.

The Zips are working on free throws this summer